Split Up

Each party promises to make changes. Every party promises to do things that are going to make their voters happy. And every party is filled with politicians and they are pretty much liars. Politicians are as apt to stand up for what they said they would about as much as a television network is apt to stand up for a failing show. Yes I did just compare politicians to television executives. And the money that television executives crave is equivalent to the power politicians crave.

Even though it seems like we have predominantly two parties that assertion is false. If you are looking at republicans and democrats as an example of the two predominant parties you will see four parties present. You have conservative republicans and center/left leaning republicans and you have center/conservative democrats and far left democrats. This is the reason why nothing can get done because these parties that are in the actual parties themselves keep butting heads.

This will always cause division in the system that will keep us on the same path we are on now, nowhere! One might think the politicians from the right and the left that hang their hats on the middle of the rack could form an alliance, come together and get something done but it is impossible. They are all to nailed down to their party.

This is not supposed to be taken as a rant on the party system. I am angry at our politicians reluctance to do something. We didn't vote them in so that they could sit and argue all day, we want something out of our vote. For example the democrats are trying to bring the troops home. They know that the president is going to veto anything that they do. So compromise a little or at least try. Because for me (the average citizen) it looks like an argument between a couple of five year olds. If I was a democrat I would be angry because they are fighting a loosing battle because right now Democrats are not thinking about bringing the troops home for their well being nor are they thinking about the well being of the Iraqi people, they are thinking about the oval office. They want to be the knights in shining armor that rescue the troops. If they actually had something pass that would bring them home I am sure that would be their running platform. But its not going to happen the President said he would veto it, and he will. So the democrats are just making it known that they don't agree with the war, but we already know that.

Don't get me wrong, this issue will still be on the ballot. They will still try to sell the American people the lie that they are for the troops. And the republicans will push back with the clear fact that they are keeping us from funding the troops. And still nothing will get done.

This country would be a lot better if only everyone in congress could just forget about their party for five minutes and do something. It needs to be known that everyone that is in congress right now are politicians that care about nothing more than their party and winning the white house in 2008. That is why nothing can get done and they are so divided.