New Year
Happy New Year everyone. It's been a while since my last post and today is a fitting day for my first post of 2005.
The 109th Congress was gaveled into session this morning. The entire House was sworn into office at the same time live on C-SPAN as I watched:
After congratulating each other and mentioning how both Republicans and Democrats share the same values and commitment to the United States, the house fell into partisan debate over changes to House ethics rules and procedural rules. Let the fun begin!
One Nation, Under God, with congress guarded by this dude:
(doesn't the sunglasses and short-sleeve shirt in January make him look cool?)
Now that Congress is back in session and the Idaho Legislature kicks off in a few days, and with Inaguration Day only 16 days away, I'm sure I will have plenty of fodder to keep the pixels of the 3rd cent busy all 2005 long...
1 Comments:
THIS ISN'T FODDER! You can't start off the year by saying that politics is fodder for the left, or for the right. This is only evidence of the continuing struggle between two basic, and yet fundamental views in American society: Should we be a nation that is controlled by the government (As the Right seems to believe) or is this a nation in which the government should HELP its citizens?
You saying it's fodder only helps their position, and while it might attract people onto your blog to read what you say, it does nothing to advance the cause. Be slow, and methodical, and make sure you point out the flaws as they come, but don't consider it fodder. Instead, consider it tragic that people in this country value power more than actually helping people, which is what the founding fathers established this nation for.
Politics is more than conflict, its about rational choice. And the rational choice for some is that government should negatively control people, although I think that's the easy way out. That's the Neo-Con position. Others beleive that the conflict is to prevent government from controlling people in this kind of negative way, and be an instrument of good, and is a much harder solution. That was FDR's philosophy. That's what we need to start helping people view government as again, but that's just my philosophy.
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