Time for some logical thinking!

It frosts my cookies that Obama is now saying there is some right-wing conspiracy to block healthcare reform. And of all possible conjurers of this big conspiracy, he says, it is the GOP! Holy Christmas! The GOP couldn't pull both hands out of their pocket at the same time! At these town hall meetings, there are registered Democrats,Libertarians, Independents, and Republicans. Sounds like a garden party of cookie-cutter right-wing conspiracists to me! Hello, is anyone capable of simple observation?

Our illustrious leaders are scaring the pants off of the citizenry! All of us have looked at the so-called Stimulus, and the TARP money to bail out bankers,insurers and auto manufacturers, the projected 9 trillion estimate(and that is just the government's estimation,not necessarily a reflection of historical reality!), and double-digit unemployment, and we are getting a chill up our spines! And it seems like a few of us still have spines,which is a good thing. Now our current administration wants universal healthcare at any cost! I think many of us believe that the healthcare system needs overhauling. We don't want to see people who really can't access healthcare for themselves or their families. But it doesn't take a genius to realize that we are at a breaking point financially with all of these issues being tackled at once.

Everyone who is struggling now is wondering just how far down we are going to go, and there is no deficit of people and organizations that are willing to project apocolyptical theories to scare us further. But I think we are correct to be skeptical that something that couldn't be accomplished when our economy was booming in 1994, can be accomplished when we have record-breaking deficits! The main reason our economy was booming in 1994 is that Clinton decimated our military strength. Not everyone knows that, but because I was an Army wife and my husband was considered to be expendable along with many others because he was in a supposedly over-strength MOS, we were mustered out with bonus money along with millions of others. He balanced the budget by stripping our military to the bone. My husband's MOS was Combat Engineer, and those were the guys who went in front of infantry and tankers to build roads and remove explosives so the Army could move. Despite the fact that a combat engineer gets killed every 7 minutes, that was a wise move to have a lot less of those guys! When we got attacked on 9/11/01, our military was nearly down to sticks and stones. It really was no wonder George W. had to spend so much re-fitting our military. But I digress.....somewhat.

The GOP couldn't even get McCain elected!A war hero that was a moderate who opposed Bush as much as he endorsed him. People's disenchantment with George W Bush and the GOP is what got Obama elected. I am pretty sure there is a lot of buyer's remorse out there, but you couldn't get the Dems to admit that.A friend of mine pointed out that Obama stole Bob the Builder's motto of "Yes, We Can". Now he needs to stop watching cartoons, and actually lead this country, or change his motto to "No, We Can't!" He is a high flying idealist who can't even keep his campaign promise of "transparency". He got in there and found out that being the leader of the free world isn't as easy as criticizing the former administration.He has a put a new face on presidential privilege! We have more czars now than Imperialist Russia had in centuries! How can Obama even think that thinking American citizens are going to support legislation that amounts to changing and abridging our constitutional rights that have fostered the freedom to decide our lives for ourselves? We are close to economic collapse according to most experts, and our constitutionally elected representatives don't even want to read the content of the bills they pass in our name. That is what has people ticked off.

There may be right-wing conspiracies as well as left-wing conspiracies, but that is not what is driving the discontent behind these town hall meeting. Our legislators are driving that tank themselves by not doing the job we elected them to do. We have had a "bait and switch" from campaign trail to Oval Office from this president, and we are reading between the lines. "Taxes won't be raised for 95% of Americans". Yeah, right,and Superman is going to fly in and save the day with "Truth, Justice, and the American Way!"