Do you follow politics?
Do you try to keep up with all that is happening in our government?
Does your head ever feel like it might explode?
Good. I'm not the only one.
I listen to the news. I have my favorite station like most people but I change it up now and then. I think it's good to see what different sources are reporting. I feel like that's become especially important in recent years because news has somehow morphed into something subjective.
Remember when we got the news without commentary?
Without eighteen talking heads weighing in on everysinglesolitary word that is uttered in Washington?
Have y'all heard about health care reform?
Calm down. I jest.
You might not know this but I first started toying with the idea of blogging sometime around the last Presidential election cycle. I guess I dished out my own commentary often enough for my husband to repeatedly say I should start a blog.
Did you know I have a lot of opinions?
When I started blogging I figured I'd introduce myself and then I'd talk issues. Somehow though I ended up talking about England. And travel. And the empty nest. And a whole lot of random. And I loved it. It was nice. I like nice. Bringing politics into the 'nice' didn't seem like a fit. So I didn't. And I won't. Occasionally a snarky comment slips thru the editor.
Or my head really does feel like it will explode and all the words must go somewhere.
Hello words.
I'm not going to go into a political rant here.
Well, maybe just a little.
Have you heard about health care reform?
Kidding!
Kind of.
Every now and then I hear something and I think to myself, 'I have an opinion and somebody needs to hear it'. Today is one of those days...
I read alot. ALOT people. I listen. I enjoy learning. I try to keep up with what is going on in the world. I'm not unintelligent. Hey, I work crossword puzzles. But, sometimes I feel like I cannot express my point of view eloquently so I keep quiet. Plus I absolutely detest confrontation. I'm the third born child in my family and I'm pretty sure we're all peacemakers aren't we? Oh I can give my husband an earful. He and I are the same shade of political color though so it's kind of like preaching to the choir.
Today I heard a political figure make a remark which I have heard uttered several times by several different people in the past week or so but for some reason today when I heard it for the umpteenth time I kind of wanted to leap thru the car radio and shake someone. And then I remembered I had a blog and it's the perfect platform for scolding don't you think?
And today it is Party A talking trash but tomorrow it could just as easily be Party B and applies no matter if you are red, white or blue.
Dear Mr. Politician,
You are the latest in a long line of people who have uttered the expression 'Well, the 'other party' did it. And they did it more than once!' when you were questioned about the advisability of using reconciliation. You are not the first to say it and I'm fairly certain you won't be the last.
Do you have children Sir? Because when I heard your excuse answer I immediately thought of a five year old child getting caught in something that as a parent I might consider 'ethically questionable'. And if upon questioning my child responded with, 'Well, Susie did it first' I want you to know I would not reply with, 'well alrighty then...I guess that makes it okay.'
My child would be on the naughty step. Or copying verses in longhand from the book of Proverbs. Or something. They for sure would get a 'talking to' and that talking to would be a gentle reminder of a few truths our family holds dear. So for a minute please just think of me as your mother. Or a member of the voting public.
Just because 'everyone else is doing something' or has done it in the past doesn't make it right.
Do I really need to explain this to a grown man?
Do I really need to explain this to a grown man?
Remember who you answer to. My child answers to me, and to the God who made her.
Coincidentally so do you.
Act always with the utmost integrity. Do not be swayed by whichever way the wind blows.
Or the latest Gallup poll.
Take personal responsibility for your actions.
For good or bad, actions have consequences.
Stop placing blame and making excuses.
People respect honesty, even people who disagree.
People respect honesty, even people who disagree.
Really Washington...grow up.
The world and my children are watching.
Whew.
I feel better.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled blog.
