Let Reason Reign On Election Day 2010
NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL
Let Reason Reign On Election Day 2010
ELECTION DAY USA, AND THE PROMISED TUMULT AT THE POLLS IS STILL HOURS AWAY.
The nation's second revolt surrounding tea is threatening to undo the majority that the Democrats hold in both the House and Senate. In California, legalizing pot's on the ballot.
President Obama has been campaigning hard to save the electoral majority that enabled him to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the same legislation that ignited the boiling Tea Party.
Never mind that the legislation, albeit with pork, kept us from teetering into economic collapse.
Still, it's also stupid to ignore the Tea Party's fears over the nation's slow inevitable strangulation from its $13.7 trillion debt.
And what's wrong with accountability? It's common sense that government cannot solve all our problems; why does that only resonate with liberals when hipsters says it?
Jon Stewart's Rally To Restore Sanity/And Or Fear could not have been better timed.
"This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith, or people of activism, or look down our noses at the heartland, or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear,'' Stewart said at the conclusion of last weekend's rally on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall. " They are, and we do.
"But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus, and not be enemies. ...We know, instinctively, as a people, that if we are to get through the darkness and back into the light, we have to work together. And the truth is, there will always be darkness. And sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t the Promised Land. Sometimes, it’s just New Jersey."
Yes, it's simplistic to say, but there are worst things than being in New Jersey.
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