Where do we go from here?

 

 

"Wait - there is an exit....right?"

What an upside down week this has been. I shouldn't just pick on this week however, as most of this year has been pretty strange. Maybe I will do a week in review, even though it is only Thursday (I might have to update this post on Saturday morning). When I think of all that has happened, I wonder where we go from here.

• President Obama - I could almost take up the entire post on this one. First off, his approval ratings are now at his all time low. In fact at 43%, they are lower than when President Bush's ratings hit his low at 47%. Second, an organization which keeps track of the biggest lies told, voted the President our number one liar. The people distrust his veracity almost as much as we distrusted President Nixon after Watergate. However, the most amazing thing came out of the mouth of Barbara Walters when she was interview by Piers Morgan. Even though many of us joked about Obama being perceived as the "second coming", it seems like Babs admitted she and many of her fellow lemmings actually believed it! Knock me over with a feather!
• MNsure - What a mess. Somebody authorized April Todd (what's her name) to be the head of an insurance exchange that will affect tens of thousands. When the MNsure ship started to list in November, April decides to brush up on her tan by taking a two week Caribbean vacation. Never mind the fact some butt head agreed to pay the woman with more names than experience a salary of $136k. So she resigns under pressure (not to worry, the teacher's union will probably hire her) and is replaced by another government lifer until a national search can come up with another health care tool.
• Ryan-Murray Bill - I spouted off about this one yesterday, so I won't repeat. All I will say is this - the next time one of these phonies on the Hill talk about "how much they love the troops", tell them they are full of crap and then move on.
• ACA - This thing is so unpopular right now, this next one is still a head turner. It seems a recent poll found over 50% of the UNINSURED don't want ObamaCare! In fact, the percentage of the uninsured who hate this law is slightly higher than the insured. One talking head for the Administration explained this oddity by saying, "We just need to do a better job of selling the advantages of the ACA." Huh? What have those guys been doing for the past four years? This thing is going to go down in history as the worst idea ever.

So where do we go from here? With the approval rating of Congress resting around 10%, and the President getting ready to sink below 40%, I had this crazy thought. What if we changed our system of government away from a republic and into a pure democracy. We could get rid of a lot of dead weight in Washington, and all of us voting on every issue could NOT lead us down a worse trail than we are on now.

Well there is more, but I am done. Be thankful I did not even go into the Duck Dynasty dust up. I will save that for another day.