Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass.......... Today I saw an approval of 31% for President Bush, which puts him 3 points below President Carter and only 7 points above Nixon when he resigned. In the beginning of the Iraqi invasion I predicted that the war would unravel and in the end The Presidents approval might wind up in the middle 20's percentile by the end of his term, because the invasion was wrong and for the first time in history we were attacking a country that was no threat to us and had done nothing to provoke a military response from the U.S. The Musings of a Dumb Ass was on another server then and I took an incredible amount of heat from those who read the blog and also from my personal friends, who felt that my refusal to say the war was OK was a slam at the American soldier. Of course that approach is completely stupid then, and now. Because one cannot support a mission has nothing to do with whether or not one supports the military. After all the missteps, lack of planning, lack of direction, loss of property and lives, the embarrasment of our folly on the world stage, the wrecking of our economy, and worst of all, the loss of our ability to believe in ourselves, we've achieved nothing and gained nothing. We have shown our lack of understanding in what we say and write and are nowhere close to a credible plan to deal with the cancer we created. I love to read other blogs to see how ideas stack up with the way I see things, but unfortunately we are proving our shallowness with hatred and ignorance. It is next to impossible to seek out any writer who actually has a thought that belongs to them and instead lowers themselves to 'Bush Bashing' and party politics spewing hate and ignorance that does absolutely no good for anyone. That will never happen on my blog. For those who might read what I've written on this post, I think it becomes very clear that I believe we have little to be proud of and I look forward to the day this President vacates his office. In the meantime, I think we would do well to put our energy towards a better way instead of the hate and party claptrap most seem to want to waste their time and conversation on, and most of the time are unaware of how things have worked and should work. I believe the constitution is the only chance for freedom, but it must be considered in relative simplicity to produce a map to follow. If the constitution is considered in simplicity, there is no value to experience and the lifetime elected official, and party affiliation will have no effect on it. If face change as a whole and no transfers from one job to another allowed, it could be amazing to watch the energy a new breath of air could produce. All laws big and small should be reviewed in this great land with most thrown out. Tax structures should be renounced by all and replaced with a national sales tax. Then politicians would have nothing to give to favored constitiuents and financial backers. One thing that should not go is the electoral college. Those who are blessed with ignorance would have it replaced with a popular vote which is OK for some things, but not a Presidential election. If popular vote is the only criterion to select a President, it would usurp the authority of all in congress and a Presidential hopeful could be comfortable passing over all states but six to collect their prize, ignoring all others, who wouldn't be important anymore, which would really upset the ignorant then. A departure from frick and frack government and a viable third party is our only chance. With all I know, which obviously I think is considerable, I am also smart enough and wise enough to know the average American is dumb enough and uninformed enough to prevent any new direction and thought process from being a slam dunk. Ain't gonna be easy, but if we are to survive, we gotta change......................