Now that I’m feeling a little bit better (just in time for the day to end, of course), I wanted to revisit my last post. For the first time in months, really, I’ve started to feel the slightest glimmer of honest-to-goodness optimism stir in the depths of my stress-worn, black-with-cynicism heart. No, I have neither found Jesus nor Obama, and rest assured I know where to find them should my need for a Messiah suddenly arise. It appears a few of my fellow Americans have indeed found something – some of the Republican Representatives have found their backbones. Those stacks of vertebrae must have been buried in some common sense or something too, because these people have caught a fevah! The Fevah of Let’s Stop Talking and Start Taking Slightly Unorthodox yet Effective Action! Yeah!
Moment of blunt honesty here, folks: Do I really think something major is going to happen here? Eh, not really, not in the long run, for two reasons – One, I’m too cynical to ever think otherwise, and Two, The Woman that would make Emperor Palpatine Cringe is never going to let anything happen. Pelosi runs the House like her own little Third World dictatorship, and although the minority is revolting here, nothing significant is going to happen until the serfs get involved (you and me, baby). Still, it’s a start. Even better is the fact that what some of us thought was a one-day affair is turning out to be a now-ongoing shindig, so the pressure will start to mount against the Evil One and her Democrat minions in the People’s House.
Here’s what I hope will come about from this: Change. A change in the way the House (and Senate, eventually) does business, with our Representatives starting to actually represent us and standing up for what’s right. A change in how we Americans view Congress – no longer should we be content to just to ignore the proceedings in DC, we need to actively keep tabs on what the hell they’re doing down there. Yeah, C-SPAN has cameras, but as we’ve learned, they’re not always on. Which brings me to my next change: Many of the Reps are using alternative media to get information out (Twitter, Qik). It’s a simple and effective way (and within the boundaries of ethics and Floor rules) to send the latest out to the rest of us. And yeah, the most important change I’d like to see is for the Democrats to stop fuxing us around on drilling for oil and realize we want to Drill Here, Drill Now!!! No, $10 a gallon gas is not acceptable, hell, $4 gas sucks hind tit. The higher gas goes, the less money we’re pumping into the economy, the less taxes we’re paying to fix roads, the less content we are with this Do-Nothing Congress. At least somebody is finally doing something, and let’s pray that it’s not too little, too late.
On a slight tangent, it’s high time we steal the words “hope” and “change” back. It ticks me off to know end that Obama has so thoroughly hijacked these terms that the mere mention of either, even in non-political subject matter, forces my synapses to remember Obama against our collective will. Hope is a powerful concept: It was the only thing that Pandora managed to keep in her box of indescribable evils, as if hope was lost, we as humanity would be lost as well. It’s what keeps us going strong when we need it most, a catalyst for lighting the fire under our bums, something even someone as dark-hearted as me secretly clings to when the sun goes down. Nobody should contort the meaning of hope into something as vapid and asinine as the drivel Obama spews; he has made a mockery of those of us who believe in real hope, made it a tawdry trinket to be disposed of when something shinier bounds along. I will say that I hope the future is good for my children, that I hope they get a proper education and that we have a roof over our head, food in our bellies, money in our pockets. The difference between this, this real hope I possess, and the ‘hope’ that Obama has manipulated into dream dust, is that I know I play a role in making those things possible. It is my responsibility to back up that hope with action. We need to take hope back. I know I don’t even have to go into why we need to take change back too… that’s self-explanatory, especially because Obama doesn’t even mean it any more.
