Miss-enlightened!

I am a little disappointed with our politicians this week. Here are a handful of things that would warrant most toddlers a time out.

Vice President Joe Biden and Bush adviser Karl Rove are engaging in a passive aggressive name calling match. It doesn't have anything to do with the present, the future, or the Obama administration at all. It's all about George W. Bush and things that allegedly happened between him and Biden, and none of it has any hope of EVER being proved or disproved.

Next is the Gary Locke controversy. President Obama has promised up and down the street to keep big business, 3rd parties, and lobbyists out of the Whitehouse. Unfortunately, Obama recently appointed Locke to head the dept. of commerce. The problem with this is that Locke has received a ridiculous amount of campaign contributions from all sorts of major corporations, and he also owns an estimated 1/4 million dollars of Microsoft stock. The fact that he is a major investor in a company that he will definitely be dealing with in the commerce dept. seems a little unethical, and he has accepted so much money from other businesses that he undoubtedly has become too biased towards them to make the right decisions in his new position. I love Obama, and I was a big supporter of his presidential campaign, but this new development feels a little bit like the first time your child says "I hate you Mom!" You'd think it would make you feel angry, but in the end all you feel is sadness and disappointment.

This week congressmen continue to publicly pick apart Obama's budget proposal. I know that this is a "democracy," and we all have freedom of speech, and so many people want to know every centimeter of what the government does... but that being said, sometimes I wish that Congress would just STFU. Why can't they work together as a team, and then show a united front when they present us their final product? Do we really need to hear propaganda and minor nit picking that is deliberately done to stir up controversy?

If you have degrees from prestigious universities, have heavily coveted political positions, and are way past the point in your life when it is "acceptable" to have a midlife crisis; and you still haven't mastered the basic principles that most 5 year olds have (play nice with others, e.t.c.), then you need to grow up or get out of Washington! We elected you (or at least elected the people that appointed you), and you owe us more than petty bullshit.