bubblingover

I have been watching the political back and forth between President Obama, his Democratic Party and the Republicans.  Have you noticed that it seems to be two football teams on the same field of play each trying to beat the other one by scoring more points. Now the points in this case are the amount of bills that the President can get passed through Congress in order to help the Country survive the greatest economic chaos we have had to endure since the Depression.  It seems to me that if the Republicans can prevent the Democrats from scoring then they will have won by subtraction. By that I mean that the people of the country will lose in the areas of Mortgage Reform, Health Care, restraints placed on the manner in which the bail out money is spent and monitored and in essence tie the hands of the President from attempting to pull the Country out of this pot of misery. If we consider how this Country got to be in such a fix, we would just end up pointing fingers.  It wouldn’t be just this past Administration either,  we would have to be putting our fingers on the nose of every administration back to Regan who didn’t see this coming. If they did see it then they turned a blind eye to it. Let’s get back to the game.  President Obama has put his first team offense on the field.  They get the Stimulus Package passed within the first 30 days of Mr. Obama taking office- no small task. The President’s Team of Democrats is running down the open field. Major Officials are streaking down the sidelines looking wide open and the heart of every spectator beats fast. There might be a light at the end of the tunnel after all. But, wait what is that in the Republican Secondary. It is the Republican Mayors showing their disdain for the way that they have been casually tossed aside. They are saying that they don’t want the money the President has gathered for their State’s Citizens. After all they had little to do with getting the money in the first place. Only Governor Schwarzenegger stands up and says that he’ll take the money for
California if his colleagues don’t want it. Then the word goes out that the Treasury Secretary is to blame for the fall of the stock market, Hillary Clinton is pushing aside Human Rights in order to negotiate with
China and suddenly the spectators are weaving and swooning in their seats. Is there going to be help coming? Will the First Team be able to continue on their forward path or will they be sacked for a loss? 

Didn’t we see something like this on Friday Night Lights or was it Guiding light or The Bold and the Beautiful? Politics has become the longest running soap opera of them all regardless of what the Nielsen Ratings say. President Obama, “The Coach”, has called a time out. He has gathered his team on the sidelines and calls a special State of the Union play. Will he give them a pep talk the likes of which neither Knute Rockne nor Vince Lombardi have never seen let alone thought of saying? Will the Coach fold to the superiority of the foe, though small in number, mighty in voice and congressional tactics? Could there be a behind the scenes, desperate attempt to find a compromise by reaching out across the aisle, but doing it in the basement of a White House smoke filled room? Now the field goes dark, the lights go off and while we hold out collective breaths to see which way the Home Team Coach decides to go, we get a Geico Commercial. The caveman is standing there with is arms folded and  looking absolutely infuriated because the Country is swirling down the toilet. The people’s President and Coach of the Team is not saying anything inspiring like “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”, or “it’s going to be all right”. Even our Caveman knows that it is not “So easy that even a Caveman can do it”. The Caveman wants, what he wants, and that is for someone to give him some respect. He represents all of us. He is not a sophisticated, all worldly, highly intelligent, richer then Midas leader of men.  He is trying to make his way in the world using his own talents and skills and trying to provide for his family. He has enough problems trying to hold a job in an economy that wants to throw him to the wolves, to keep a roof over his head when a lack of income puts the foreclosure man at his door, and  he has to try to decide whether it is better to buy some food to feed his family or spend the meager sum he makes on some medication so that his wife won’t be in pain all of the time.  He doesn’t like the time out, but he doesn’t have much control. He knows that he pushed the lever that put the man in the White House, but after that it’s just like tossing a coin. As he waits for the next play to be called he can only hope that the coin toss will come down as “heads I win”. We are all waiting for the lights to come back on and the coin to fall the right way. 

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