You read the news. You decide.

Let’s step back and look at the big picture. What are we doing to make America strong and benevolent? What is our government doing? What do we see is happening in our little town and in Washington?

While Washington is in boiling disparity and can’t seem to come to some kind of agreement, we citizens can’t to find reasonable leadership in DC as well. All we can observe is strutting politicians tossing about slams and gottchas. Making the Russian government looking better all the time. Well, maybe not but almost.

If you were to ask my own opinion, it is time to totally sweep out the entire of congress. Swish! Swept off the game board like Monopoly pieces. Cleared away. Gone.

The real question is, why do we keep reelecting the same old warthogs? Mental pigmies whose intent is to just keep on being reelected and nothing more. Indicating the problem lays with we the voters. Voting mindlessly as others tell us to do. Others like Talk Radio or Cable news. Two entities with questionable intent and glaring partisanship.

Go back to your newspapers. Newspapers with professional journalism. Mostly unbiased accounting of what is really happening in Washington and in our hometowns. Yes, it does take a little longer to read and decide. But it’s well worth it. You read. You decide. It’s that simple.

Don't give your brain to science.

Allowing talk radio to decide your politics is like giving your brains to science well before you die. We don’t need any more Zombies. We need intelligent informed citizens. Read the newspaper. Watch CSPAN.

Pledge to ignore pledges. Huh?

Certainly there are those who think they are the maker and keepers of the rules.  Mostly partisans by self-appointment and feel obligated to make up the rules for the rest of us.  “Do we need more rules and pledges?”  Contrived rules to suit their own political partisanship.  Certainly Grover Norquist comes to mind (such as he is).  But anyway, fabricating pledges, promises, contracts, and the list goes on and on.  Why?

Never the less, we Americans already have our rules set in place.  It’s called the United States Constitution.  Well thought out and benefits all Americans.  We don’t need some half-cracked knucklehead lobbyist to tell us what we should do or not. 

TEA partiers go stuff it.  Far right radicals go study the Constitution.  Far left gadflies, take ten deep breaths and sit down now before you wet your pants.

All this postulating and blowviating is just to serve one’s own special interests.  If they don’t like something, then they will change the rules on the fly as needed.  Then start a way out in left field pledge or die campaign.  Then trash their opponent with half-truths and misleading social media rhetoric.  “Oh, I might be wrong but my worthless opponent is Adolph Hitler’s mother!”

The best way to throw water on this spin is to stop listening to talk radio and questionable shallow contrived cable news.  The best alternative is to read the daily newspapers.  It worked well for Will Rogers.  Remember?  Newspapers have more reliable information than a lobbyist or hopeful candidates Twitter or Facebook page.  Certainly you must know if the candidate or lobbyist writes his or her own press releases, it’s really gotta be pure processed baloney.  “Reader, Beware of Dogma.”  And for sure, don’t believe every blogger.  Blogging is entertainment.