Political Drama: A Rant

I'm sorry, but basically the main reason why I was looking forward to leaving high school was that I would get to leave the petty drama behind. However, I had not paid much attention to our political system and such, so I was sorely mistaken that I could avoid drama queens and misplaced blame.

Today while listening to NPR, I heard one politician assert that raising the deficit ceiling is the President's responsibility, that it's "his problem." (This politician shall remain nameless for the purpose of this post)

I'm sorry, but-- his problem? That very phrasing might as well have come out of the mouth of a sophomore girl in a particularly bitchy mood (pardon the swear usage, it was the only way to concisely and accurately convey the sentiment, sans this lengthy disclaimer). I though we would have learned this lesson a long time ago-- the one about not placing blame and just stepping up and getting the job done-- haven't we?

With that kind of talk, it's as if everyone spilled a little nail polish on the floor of the Oval Office, and we're saying, "Hey, it's Obama's house, he's gotta clean it up." No. I hate to pull the "This nation was founded on the principals of blah, blah, and blah," but I'm doing it.

This country was created because we didn't want one person to decide everything. Yes, figuring out how to solve our budget issues is one thing, not everything, but still, we have fifty separate but united states with representatives specifically for the purpose of working together to come to consensuses about issues important to everyone. I'm pretty sure having money as a nation is important to everyone.

We all learned in high school English classes that by pinning all the brainstorming responsibilities on one person and relying on them to do the work often results in something you don't believe (At least, I'm enough of a nerd to say to myself, "I do not agree with this interpretation" mid-presentation). By senior year we figure out how to at least start to discuss differing ideas with our peers and produce a mutually acceptable concept or at least agree that both viewpoints are valid. Good to know that adults have thrown that all away, I'm really looking forward to the "real world."

Also-- sports. If the defense on a football team (yeah America, say it with me-- football, but not our fake football) says that it's all up to the forwards to win the game, then the team will loose every time. I can guarantee it (unless you're playing a REALLY bad team, or your forwards are REALLY good). However, I'm thinking that Obama isn't quite superhuman, so he can't be expected to take care of everything. It's most certainly not his problem. It's all of ours. It's our country, and we all have to live in it, unless we want to live somewhere where health care makes sense (~cough~ CANADA ~cough~) oops, did that just happen? Yeah it did, I said it.

Personally I think our time, our teenagers time, and our politicians time is better spent not naming names, and it's better spent working together and really trying to figure out what will make our country function, and not just delay the bitter aftertaste.

No one likes a tattle-tale.