Stuff Really Happens Out Here

I generally try and keep blatant political comments to a minimum in this blog, preferring to opine about what our government is doing rather than specifically denigrating President Obama. While I make no apologies for being a conservative, I understand that there may be readers of the liberal persuasion out there and I choose not to be a cheerleader for conservative causes or thought processes. Of course I do invoke my Christian beliefs as they pertain to whatever subject I may be blogging on at the moment.

What I am blogging on at this moment is our political process in general. I was listening to Sean Hannity on the drive home today, and Sean was in full throttle attack on the entire spectrum of the Obama scandals. But when questioned by a liberal guest, Sean responded with much the same equivocation that the liberals employ. I do not consider myself a novice at political thought or an outside-the-beltway bumpkin on current affairs. What I do consider myself to be is one of the run-of-the-mill Americans where things still matter.

If people break the law, whether liberal or conservative, they should be indicted and punished. It shouldn’t matter that the malfeasance happened in the prior administration or the one currently in office. We don’t turn our desire for justice off just because we threw one party out of the White House. Of course the Beltway insider answer is a smile and a wink with the polite “it’s just politics” to explain away the previous righteous indignation before the election. Out here in the boondocks, we aren’t allowed the luxury of four-year time spans to dodge the indictments and punishment and then go on our merry way, or to resign from an appointment and automatically be absolved from further investigation. Why do we accept the worst from the people we elect? Why do we let our party’s political leadership and the Sunday morning news hosts treat everything like it’s a game? Their gamesmanship has consequences out here. I am an avid reader of National Review and they have an academic viewpoint on the entire process. It is not academic out here. Stuff really happens. People really pay taxes and put up with insane regulations while trying to make a living. Things are not always civil. Why doesn’t the White House Press Corps throw tomatoes at Jay Carney, Obama’s mouthpiece? There should be price to pay for putting out blatant misstatements and outright lies.  And if you have any self-respect, why would you want a job that requires lying? And why doesn’t the national media understand that if they don’t treat their own vocation with more respect, they will go the way of the typewriter; still somewhat functional, but overall a waste of time and effort.

We have become so desensitized by all of the political gamesmanship that we have forgotten how hard it was to establish this country. We seem to believe that we have a right to exist because we are the United States. I’m sure Rome felt that same sense of entitlement.