I was just listening to a newscast about Congress reaching a deal to avoid a Federal Government shutdown later this week. They interviewed Rand Paul who asked:
We knew this deadline was coming, and yet the leadership does nothing. Why didn’t we have this debate last week or last month?
The reporter said:
Of course Senator Paul’s assessment is correct, but the fact is this is just how things are done in Washington.
And therein lies the problem. Washington only works (and not well when they do) when it’s crunch time and both sides can mug for the media. They don’t work on just any old Tuesday when there aren’t any big headlines or lots of reporters fighting for a big interview. It appears to me that they spend most of their time doing media appearances talking about an upcoming government disaster and then portray themselves heroes when they avert the disaster at the last minute. Maybe if they spent more time working and less time stirring up “Washington-made” disasters some real solutions could be found and implemented. In the long-standing government practice of “wagging the dog”, it dawned on me this morning that we the people are the dog and we are being wagged.
As usual of course, the “work” Washington did get done was once again a 7-week stop gap measure and not any lasting solution.
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Of course it wasn’t a lasting measure. That would be going against every trend we have been seeing in Washington for the past several years.
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It just shows their inability or lack of courage to make a commitment and to make real decisions.