IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID

(sigh)

I can hear it now. Three months before the next Presidential election the Dems will have assumed their usual blame-game stance. Everything bad that's occurred during the past eight years of a Republican administration will now be the fault of George W. Bush and Company, and anything positive will have been the direct result of that liberal group which calls itself the Democrat party. This is such nonsense. The economy is cyclical and runs in waves regardless of who's leading the country. The stock market is by turns skittish, ebullient, poutish, exuberant, temperamental and ALWAYS responsive to the least ort of either positive or negative news. The folks in the Middle East will forever be aiming rockets at one another no matter what we do; the Federal budget will never be balanced so long as there are ways to spend it; there will never be tax reform; Social Security will never go belly up because politicians know their asses will be over the proverbial pork barrel if they don't keep patching up the holes; we're always going to be debating pro life vs. pro choice, the right to die with dignity, affirmative action, corruption in professional sports. There's no end to the issues to which the Dems and Republicans can sling their arrows. It makes me sick to think about what's coming -- what ALWAYS comes before an election -- and that's our national stupidity in LISTENING to this never-ending rhetoric.
I'd just as soon be plugged in to 4' x 4' windowless room with country music piped in 24/7.

Nah.
Politics aren't THAT bad.

(sigh)