>> I mean, we're all frustrated by political gridlock.
For the most part, I find Gridlock to be the best moments for our government. I don't want Congress to be passing legislation, because everytime they do they take away our freedom.
Obamacare being a perfect example.
If they could come together and do reasonable things, I'd be frustrated when they didn't; but this isn't their history. If you look back 25 years, you see very few instances where Congress functioned as a body to do good things for this country. Looking back today, there was the period right after 9/11, before that, Welfare Reform, before that, the Gulf War, before that, Tax Reform of 86. There are few instances where really good legislation happened as a result of political cooperation.
If you think about it, each of these measures involved serious leadership (generally, by the president). We just have no shot at that now.
Obama should be leading on abolishing/reforming the War on Drugs -- which is already a real, shooting war on our southern border (40,000 dead) and which is dangerously close to becoming a MILITARY war with U.S. involvement. That war could be stopped instantly by Obama declaring marijuana legal by virtue of issuing blanket pardons to every nonviolent marijuana offender (which would collapse the law enforcement efforts against marijuana, effectively making it legal, and totally disrupt the cartels; a side-benefit would be a cleansing of our jails making room for violent offenders who are now turned out early to allow room for marijuana smokers and minor dealers). He should be using the bully pulpit to convey to the American people how the drug war has become a self-sustaining, directionless, failed policy. Instead, he's doing what?
I guess you could say we have "bigger problems", but I"m not sure that we do. The real problem is we have no leadership. |
