Hope

Hi Everyone,

I'm back.......... finally. One year to the day, 10/29, but this time due to hurricane Sandy, we lost our electricity again. But this time, the outage lasted for 8 1/2 days, the longest ever for us. You may have watched or heard of the TV show, Breaking Amish? Well my family and I were really becoming Amish. Not so much fun with no phone, no lights, not a single luxury, oh wait that was from another TV show. Remember it? Anyway I digress.

Today's blog isn't about the completely and utterly total lack of common sense of almost every electric utility company in the tri-state region regarding their response, or should I say lack of a response to Sandy. Today's blog is about hope. Hope that common sense is used by the people who seem to never be able to use it, no less heard of it. The people I speak of are of course politicians. Even though President Obama won the popular vote by a small percentage, he won a decisive win with the Electoral College, 332 to 206 with Florida's votes finally counted, 4 days after the election was over. What is Florida's problem with elections? Can anyone explain that to me?

The bottom line is that the American people have spoken by casting their ballots. Now where does that leave partisan politics in D.C.? Hopefully DOA in the morgue and not to rear its ugly zombie head for at least the next four years. Now is the time for common sense to rule in D.C. and compromise to become a good thing and not a dirty word. Both sides need to and absolutely must begin to start compromising ASAP, for the sake of our country. But, the GOP must immediately take off the table, no tax increases for the rich. That's because that's part of what the majority of people voted for. If the GOP continues with their no tax increase stance, they will again be seen as obstructionists and will loose even more seats in the mid-term elections in two years. It is now time for Grover Norquist to crawl back into the hole from whence he came from, (see my blog dated 11/27/11). But I stress that both sides must compromise and do what is right for the people of this country. Although I wish that politicians would just do what is right for us and stop worrying about doing what they think they should do in order to get re-elected. That really is wishful thinking, but one can hope right? Maybe it is really time for term limits. No more life time jobs with life time benefits.

In the spirit of today's blog, I hope that civility also returns to D.C., ASAP! Additionally, the lies, rhetoric, distortions, name calling and the vocal sore losers who say they will move to another country must stop now! We can only hope!

Til next week,

Peter