Think About This

One of the problems we have in our political system is that very few of us are intellectually honest. Our opinion on issues flips too often based on what party we are and what party is in control. In effect what is important and what is a good idea changes based on who is in power and whose idea it becomes.

Much of this goes back to our good friend Bill Clinton. When he recovered from his 1994 Midterm pasting he did so by the art of triangulation. That is using some of his Republican friends ideas, embracing them as his own, and then taking credit for the passage.

This convinced the right and Senator McConnell that a Republican idea embraced by the left is no longer a good idea. Over the Obama Presidency we have seen this time and time again. However, let us be clear, those on the left are guilty too.

Try this question? How many folks who were ready to convict Bush the second over his Iraq and Afghanistan policy are now quiet while Obama dithers in Afghanistan.

Or this. Knowing that all nine Justices ruled against their ideological perspective, that is federal rights or states rights, in the case of Bush V Gore how would Republicans have felt if the situation was reversed and the court handed the Presidency to Gore.

How about his? Mandating individuals to get health insurance was a Republican talking point for years, a matter of personal responsibility. Until Obama embraced it, then it became a reproach to personal liberty and freedom.

Seriously you can go on and on and on. These clowns must think we are stupid to not notice the sleight of hand tricks they use. The truth is each day we prove them right.

I will embrace any serious person with an opinion different than mine. I expect the same. What both sides should expect however is that each side will have the integrity to maintain their opinions, that is as we were all taught when we were young, " you have to stand for something or you will fall for anything." I think we might well be in the Anything phase right now.