Ahhh-balance~

May I say how excited I am with the results of the election in Massachusetts yesterday? Sort of.

Happiness: I find it terribly disturbing when any one group in a government that is supposed to be answerable to the people – all of the people – has a “super majority.”  Too much power.  Not enough real debate.  We benefit one another when we have to talk things through and compromise.  When we have to listen to each other thoughtfully, we temper each other.  Even when my pride is involved, I like to be shown another way of seeing things, because there are ALWAYS things I’ve missed in my favored point of view.

Sort of: of course, it had to be some idiot who posed butt-naked in a cheap rag of a stupid women’s magazine.  I was hoping we would improve on the moral behavior of the previous owner of that seat.  But no.  Not a respectable, sensible man with solid values.  A male model.  So in many ways, we’ve just taken another step down the path of intellectual and spiritual decay.  Oh, joy.  Another idiot in congress.

And yes, I know it’s Cosmo I’m talking about.  I chose my epithet with care.

Addendum: G googled the guy.  His stint as a naked man evidently took place when he was in his early twenties.  He’s fifty now.  This does not mean he is still not a naked man – but he’s also served his time in the military and has other good credits to his name.  I do wonder how many people actually knew anything more about him when they voted than the fact that he was not a Democrat and that he did not support the health care legislation.  The vote was, in my opinion, an expression of the frustration of the actual people who live in this country and have been sitting helpless by as the government has been re-shaped right in front of them.

I am an independent.  I vote my conscience.  But I would have voted for a flipping horse as long as it meant that we could come closer to balance in the legislature and the gov as a whole.

PS.

So I heard about the truck.  Mr. Brown drives a pickup truck with over 200K miles on it.  I’m sure he does it with his clothes on.  And now I’m beginning to feel better about him.  Politicians in fancy cars raise my hackles.  But a man who drives a truck that long?  I’m re-thinking this thing.  And Mr. Obama does not respect this?