Counting the Days

Nothing that we really want or want to happen ever comes quickly enough. Time seems to drag on and on, and we get increasingly impatient. The unfortunate part is that this great anticipation almost always ends in frustration. Whatever it is that we wait for never seems to fulfill the expectations. Really. Think about it: we look forward to our birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, Christmas, summer vacation...the list is endless. None of them live up to what we imagine them to be, and this year, like every two years for the past several hundred years, the big disappointment awaits us. I for one, will refuse to be disappointed. I will rejoice and be glad knowing that I will not have to see, hear or read about one more political ad intimating how the opponent probably is a child molester, a drunkard and an overall ne-er-do-well who will rib senior citizens blind and take every single job in America and give it to the Chinese.
Seriously, I'm getting so irritated at the barrage of phone calls (recorded, of course), mailings taking all the room from the Christmas catalogs in my mailbox that I'm getting good and ready to go...vote early...as if that would stop these would-be representatives from harassing me for the next two days. Because in the end, we will all be disappointed again no matter what the outcome is.
Oh sure, the Republicans might take over the House of Representatives, but their ranks could be filled with Tea Party candidates who have vowed to restructure the country (meaning the Republican Party as well), so the majority isn't really. And even if it is, the end result will be the filibuster by the Democrats on any meaningful legislation or a veto by the president if things get that far. The end result will be a stalemate, just like the one we've had for, oh, about 10 years now, and maybe even longer than that.Should the Democrats retain "control," the other side of the aisle will continue to stonewall any attempts at meaningful help for the American people just as they've done for almost two years because they're having a hissy since they lost so much ground in 2008. It's not about the American people anymore (if it ever was)...no matter what the party affiliation. It's about gaining power and thumbing collective noses at the losers.
"We'll reach across the aisle" means only that the winners will make such outrageous gestures that nobody will agree to, then act hurt when bipartisanship doesn't happen. BTW< I hear that even the word "bipartisanship" is about to be dropped from the dictionary from lack of use...to be replaced by "nyah, nyah, nyah"
Maybe that's too cynical. But I defy you to think back to the last real piece of significant legislation on which everyone could agree that wasn't so watered down with addenda to please the right, the middle or the left that it actually made a difference to this country. Title IX? Civil Rights? think how long ago those happened. Roe v Wade? Still under the gun.
No, the "one man, one voice" has given way to the "One PAC, one vote" form of government, and if you think your party is exempt, just keep hoping for significant change after the mid-term elections. That two-day euphoria is just a mirage.
something to wish for and hope against hope that this time, it will be different, even if we don't vote for the person who claimed a vote for his opponent was a vote for "More taxes and less jobs."
Idiots everywhere.