Grab your torches and pitchforks

Anyone up for a walk down to the Hill tomorrow night? I'm wondering if looking out their windows and seeing something like this:

might inspire our elected representatives to put aside their petty differences and actually do the People's business. Seriously, do you think we'd get our point across if we surrounded Capitol Hill with people carrying torches and pitchforks? And just stared.

Really hard.

The people we need to get through to are the ones in the middle - no matter how small it is these days. There should be just enough of them to balance out the idiots on the fringes of the left and right to actually get together and actually Pass. The fucking. Budget!

This situation is ridiculous. We are the laughingstock of the world right now. A hard look does need to be taken at the entire budget, but not this one - this year is already shot, just pay the fucking bills and move on. And probably not the next one either - not enough time left to get that done. Now the 2013 budget that's a whole 'nother question. It needs to be looked at now. All of it: Defense, entitlements, social programs, pork. Especially the pork. Get out the knives and start cutting. When we - as a country - owe the world more than $14 trillion we can't even think about a tax cut. I don't care if you believe with all your heart that it will stimulate business. As my dad reminded me and my brothers growing up when we asked for something expensive "We can't afford it."

The 535 "representatives of the People" need to pull their heads out and remember that while they represent the 500k or so people in their individual districts, they work for all of us. And all of us are a bit pissed right now.

And they can be replaced. All of them. And they probably should be.

Here endeth the rant.

Forthcoming thoughts

Hey everyone! Yes, I'm still alive and kicking, but terribly overworked and without time for anything but working for the man, eating (barely), sleeping (a few hours a night) and drinking tequila (not nearly enough).

What is it, you ask, that could consume a man so entirely? Well, you see, I work in field known as health care...Ahhh, there it is. The last couple of weeks have been, well, interesting.

Trust me, I do have thoughts on the big happenings of late, but I don't feel comfy writing about them at work and I wasn't kidding about the lack of time for other endeavors. Hopefully, one of these nights soon, I'll be able to scrape together a few moments (perhaps from the time allotted for sleep) and scribble down what I think of health care reform.

That said, I did stay up way too late Sunday night watching the vote in the House. Kinda like the way I stay up to watch election returns - exciting like a grass growing competition or a paint drying marathon. But still important.

Coming soon: Thoughts on the people rallying against and for health care reform, where I think it's going in the future and Texas Rep. Randy Neugebauer. Quick preview of the last: Classless liar.