As we inch ever closer to the 2012 midterms the Republicans are looking at a victory by all accounts. We will be done with Ms. Pelosi as speaker of the house, her glaring, sneering, downright nasty looks. Her backdoor politics and perhaps a separating of the strings she has had attached to the president making him her personal marionette. Maybe not, we may never know the full extent that President Obama sold his sole to the Uber Liberals like Pelosi, Boxer, Finestein,Reid, and others that remain nameless, and shameful.
Nancy Pelosi may not go down as the worst Speaker of the house but I for one can't tell you why. Quite the contrary I think she should be categorized as the worst speaker of the house ever in the history of our country. She has been one of the most ruthless, self serving self absorbed minutia struck useless excuses for a politician I have ever seen. She has never understood what the founding fathers had in mind for our country and she has never wanted more than to drag our country into a pit where there is no Moral value to life, where people are free to do anything they want regardless of the consequences to those that surround the offending citizen.we all have freedoms that are inalienable rights this is an inherent right in the vein of the pursuit of life liberty and happiness, however there once existed a Moral imperative that dictated to almost all people that there were moral rights and wrongs. Nancy Pelosi has thrown these all out the window and would have America a virtual free for all if left to her. Thank god for the midterms, and thank God for the departure of Nancy Pelosi!
Now do I blame her for America's problems.....NO MAM/SIR, she is but part of the problem. Do I blame the politicians? No way in hell. Do I blame the system? NO then who you ask? Well the answer is clear you and I are to blame. We vote or don't vote and we get what we deserve. I am not talking just about the beer drinking redneck living in the double wide, why? because believe it or not, exit polling shows they vote. The folks that don't are the middle age upper blue collar lower white collar Americans 26-45 years old, and the newly able 18 year old through 25 year old and the senior citizens who are no longer mobile. Who does that leave? Well the upper White collar 45 year old and above wealthy folks, the same age group of poor folks, and the seniors who have not yet lost their mobility. we have less than a 50% turnout at major election times and usually less than a 40% turnout for the midterms and off year elections. We need to get all Americans to the polling booth and get their voice heard. Why is it some people do not think that their vote counts why do people think they have no voice? We need to be good stewards of our country and teach our children the process of the vote and why we all need to vote our founding fathers and framers of the constitution risked their life for the right to vote. It is that simple register to vote then just do it, without being a part of the process how then can you complain about the outcome or the government that we have? Now to digress about the role of Speaker of the house and their importance in US Politics
Tip O'Neill was Speaker of the House for 9 years 350 days ranking him 2nd in US history in terms of length of service. Second only to Sam Rayburn ( who served 17 years and 53 days) Tip O'Neill was a liberal, he was an in your face House Speaker throughout his time as speaker and during the Reagan Administration. However, there was an unwritten rule of respect between the President and the Speaker even though they were on the opposite sides of the isle. They had a mutual respect for the Office of the United States President Not so with Speaker Pelosi, I believe she has more to do with the rise of the TEA PARTY formation and small victories they have achieved, then anyone else in politics today. Tip O'Neill disagreed vehemently with President Reagan on so many different things but never lost his respect for the Office of the President and in the case of President Regan the man. They had what many have called the truly gentlemanly debates. Even dining together on a regular basis to try and find common ground. The speaker of the house represents the party with a majority when that party and the party of the President of the United States are different legislating can be difficult at best. Everything gets to be a game of political brinkmanship. Everything can be open for a campaign issue, bills can be delayed to be used as campaign tools. Here are some area's that change need to be effected. I think if more Americans knew of the process, we would have more people turning up at their polling precinct on voting day.
wikipedia a user controlled website meaning that users of the site can input sometimes questionable material. I will use information supplied by the OEMB during the Regan Presidency which stated that the Democrats through control of either the White house or Senate and House ran up deficit spending for 45 years before President Reagan took office, and during the most recent Bush administration (republican) ran up tremendous deficits largely fighting wars on two fronts at a cost of over 80 Billion dollars a quarter for a nearly 6 year period. Personally being a Gulf War vet I supported the invasion of Iraq, not because of the reasons the Bush administration gave, but because we left the job unfinished in 1991. We left a despot in control of a country that failed to follow through with his terms of surrender in 1991 and he continued to flaunt his disregard for the UN and its 97 separate resolutions condemning his treachery. Sometimes a good guy needs to step in when a bully is suppressing the little guy.
Okay so what does this have to do with the midterms? well all of this has played into the total frustration that Americans feel for the shape of the country. As president Bush left office, it became clear that all of the money going into the war did severe harm to our economy. The election of 2008 which should have been about the ending of the war and repairing the economy was diverted into a finger pointing session allowing the Election to be stolen by smooth talks and promises that have yet to be accomplished. The Guantanamo Bay prison was to be closed in the first 100 days, nope the tribunals were to be moved to NY court rooms nope, we are going to get the economy back on track.....so far over a trillion dollars dumped into the us economy but none of it into the hands of small business but into the hands of wall street companies and insurance companies that made bad decisions. The truth of the matter is that the Glass Stegal Act repealed by President Clinton allowed Banks to buy up Brokerage Companies and sell mortgages as investments as CMO's or Collateralized Mortgage Obligations without telling the investing public what the real dangers were, I know this as fact, I was a Broker asked to sell these securities as bonds backed by the government to my clients (which was only partly true). By allowing these investments to be sold, additional investment capital was raised which was used to invent the sub prime investment market for mortgages, which led to the overbuying of homes via adjustable rate mortgages, which led to the home foreclosures that almost bankrupted the US Economy and may yet. Put all this together and you have for the first time since the great depression an American Populous that is fed up and frustrated with politicians in general. America wants change, and I think the problem will be change at any cost. We may lose some great public servants in what I believe will be a carnage on both sides of the isle.
This can be the most dangerous part of change on a level to the degree we are about to see. As we vote out the incumbents and we fill the house and Senate with new members we will tend to lose some of the leadership the senior leadership and if we are not careful we could end up with an entire house and congress with no Idea of how to make a bill or pass a law or to legislate. I hope we can all make intelligent choices at the polling booths and not make rash decisions just for the purpose of change.
Lastly, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which she stands one nation indivisible Under God with liberty and justice for all
Kevin JAnkoski
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Our electoral turnout is really an outrage. What are people thinking when they sit out elections. If you don't vote, don't complain about the government you get.
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