More on political parties

So it’s no secret that I used to be a Republican… OK so technically I am still a Republican but that’s just a matter of going down to the DMV… which I dread. The DMV represents to me some of the worst things about government. There are 200 people in line and 3 tellers, with rotten attitudes waiting on you… but I digress

I realized that I still get a little huffy when people bash the GOP. I get to thinking something like “hey those are my people!” But if I think about it… The Republicans in Washington are not my people. They don’t know anything about me and for the most part what it’s like to be an average citizen. Most of them voted for the TARP and the bailouts when Bush was in office, but now that a Democrat is in office they suddenly find principles and a backbone?

It must be easy to be the minority party since you can say no without there being any real consequences. You can stand up there like John Kerry and tell people you voted against the war! Or that you are against the stimulus package! But I’m sure we can agree that if a republican had come up with that stimulus bill then they would have voted for it.

If John McCain were president and he asked them to shut down GITMO they would have done it. When the democrats were the minority party they railed against the GOP for being in bed with big business and giving out no-bid contracts to Halliburton. But now that they’re in power they are nationalizing big businesses, giving them bailout money and are well on their way to giving no-bid contracts to GE, who just so happens to own NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC which have been the most pro-Democrat/ Pro-Obama news agencies on TV. Hmmm. Both parties guilty but both point fingers at the other party.

This is the folly of political parties. It takes the argument of principle away and we end up focusing on D’s and R’s like its a family feud, a race riot, or a damn holy war. We can’t even agree on principle but we just know the other team is the enemy. If Americans would wake up they would see that both parties take us to the same place.