.....So far no one has had the balls to stand up and be responsible for this mess. If this "appeasement" fails, what next, do we haul out Lady Guillotine or simply re-elect failures as we have all along, that is, if we are still standing after? If we are still standing, what is our standing, not only to ourselves, but in the world?
What are WE going to do if this is yet one more fiasco and leads to the total collapse of our nation? Will the weasels be left to go their own way, will we care, will we have finally learned anything?
If it is a success, what then, will we swallow our own words or will we join the ranks of the weasels that still refuse to stand up and be accountable for the mess that led to any need for any sort of bail out?
Perhaps our problem is we continue to hang ourselves by our own petard, then look for someone else to blame.
If we had a leadership that stood up and said we screwed up royally, I was your leader and failed you, I realize that now and would like to make amends, I want to now work with people who in retrospect ended up being correct in their assessments of where we were headed and find an honest sincere way out of this with no further BS attached, we might trust such a solution. If such a statement was added by a personal warranty to the extent that should further solutions fail, such a leader would offer to pay a price for his failure, such as forfeit some freedom, they might gains some credibility.
Unfortunately we have no leadership and we have no responsible human beings in leadership, just weasels who are too afraid of being held accountable and thus are not leaders, but vain people who want to be remembered as great leaders, but in reality have ducked the accountability (honor and integrity) all great leaders in history have shown.
It is one thing to "stay the course", it is another thing to stand up and take responsibility as the captain of a ship when you have run that ship up on the rocks and not only crew and cargo, but possibly the ship itself.
Eisenhower as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe prepared to stand up and take full responsibility for the failure of D-Day, had it failed. John McCain called it a letter of resignation. It was not a letter of resignation, but a letter written by a person taking full accountability for their position and charges. That is what honor, character and integrity is all about, win or lose the game.
This is not directed at you Gramps I sensed quite a while back that you recognize what honor and integrity are.
Did our current CIC even think about backing his policies with such a letter? Has he come forth with a statement taking full responsibility for being the leader of our nation in all its failures as much as he has for all its "Mission Accomplished" "glories"?
What about our Congresspeople? Are they taking responsibility or weaseling out of it and running for cover trying to spin and salvage their part in the mess as their part in the rescue?
What about us, "We the people"? Are we completely blameless for those we have continued to elect as our representatives by a majority of votes even as we then complain about them later? How do we send a message to those we send to Washington that we are serious about the responsibilities we are charging them with? We are not sending them to Washington to play a sporting competition against one another, but to work out compromises that will benefit our nation, not bring it down. Blocking and checking is a good process on one hand as it disallows too much accumulation of power, but it should also not block and check legislation and policy that may be good for the nation, but is not good for one party's efforts to win the beauty or popularity contest.
As individuals we each have the capability of making good or bad decisions and the outcome of those decisions determine, at least in part, our fate. We must take in information and weigh the choices and options. In the end we have checked and balanced the pros and cons in our mind and make a choice, that we live, or die, with. We do not and cannot forever debate a decision to act in our minds, if we propose to move forward and survive. Our minds are broken into two parties, pros and cons, there are only two dimensions. In Congress there is a third dimension added, that of checking and blocking, NOT because something is a bad policy or legislation, but because an opposing party might gain a political advantage by gaining credit for a great piece of legislation or policy, the "jealousy factor".
I don't believe I have ever seen so much partisanship in my entire life and much of it based on this "jealously factor". Our nation has suffered severely because we have been acting like a bunch of adolescents, not only in our being adult enough to be responsible for our acts, but allowing such a "jealously factor" to become an obsession to the point the objective of providing good leadership, good legislation, good policy and more have been neglected in favor of a cat fight about who's the most beautiful or popular political party.
It's like a rescue squad coming to your rescue and instead of rescuing you, they argue about who is going to rescue you and how, not because of technical reasons of risk to the rescuers, but because each rescuer present wants to be listed as the hero in the morning paper.
