Move it!

The cast of the Jersey Shore is officially more successful than the United States Congress. Snooki and The Situation wrangled a sweet $100K/episode deal with MTV while Pelosi and Boehner-head wouldn't be able to reach a consensus on whether or not to include mustard on a ham sandwich. Mustard is a right! If the government provides mustard, we will lose our fundamental rights to eat sandwiches/smile/breathe- we must KILL the mustard movement. All the while, Americans remain hungry. Hungry for leadership. Hungry for sanity. Hungry for honesty and forthrightness.

Everyone is so afraid of making the one vote or sound bite that will lose them an election. Some, such as Sen Bayh have opted to completely drop out of the frenzied tango that is Senate expectations. Two republican Senators, Voinovich and Bond, set to retire at the end of their term, broke with the GOP caucus to move the Jobs Bill along- as did Scott Brown, remembering that he represents the people of Massachusetts- rather than the anguished, angry Tea Partiers nation-wide. Yet for the most part, all votes are along party lines. Who knows who is painting these lines on which Congresspeople so eagerly line up, terrified that one millimeter of movement from the burdensome linear thinking that both enables their continuance and also entraps them in the Congress.

Its troubled times like these that call for some real leadership, that summon the will of the men and women who RUN OUR COUNTRY to concede that some things are more important than reelection. As a liberal democrat with pragmatic tendencies I say this: if the country is really moving the way of the Tea Party and Conservativism- let it go there! We are a reasonable people. We are a perceptive people. We are also a people of BIG TALK and moderate action; we can out smack-talk any potential high school athletic foe, but will probably end up having a post-game Clown Sundae at the Friendly's booth next to her and her family.

To our legislators I say this: Stop making empty, anti-government/anti-liberal threats. ACT. DO IT. We will eventually moderate. It's the threat of the conservative blitz or liberal government take over that keeps us from actually DOING SOMETHING. So we DO NOTHING. Let's go to extremes. Let's play that hand out. We'll eventually return to the middle that the founding fathers and all subsequent great American leaders and citizens had always envisioned our nation: sane, productive and united.