Regularly Frustrated in Michigan

A couple of days ago I came across an article on the web that subscribed to the idea that this past summer's tea parties and seething town hall protests over healthcare and deficit spending have given way to apathy and resignation on the part of some conservatives. That for many of us, these tantrums were only a cathartic and temporary reaction to the "black man as president" stimuli. Hogwash! The latest polls on Obamacare still show a majority dead set against a government takeover of the industry.

Still, it's a tough slog when we are subjected daily to new and variant ways in which the left assault our intelligence and patience and have but our own voices to combat them. For instance. Just yesterday, the Democrats in the House voted overwhelmingly against a Republican attempt to remove Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Why does he even remain a member of Congress? He has admitted to owing over $600,000 in back taxes! Where is the outrage? Full disclosure; I think that Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) should also be removed from Congress for his shenanigans over his adulterous affair.

Continuing to act more like a Chicago alderman than the President of the United States, Obama sends his education chief and his attorney general to Chicago to re-ignite a "discussion" on the ravages of gang violence. Another government program designed to assuage the situation should be forthcoming.

Here in Michigan, the state needs to balance an almost $3 billion budget deficit and the Democrats have voted to raise taxes by $400 million. If we didn't have Obama's "stimulus" money (our money, but that's another story) to offset further cuts, they'd have voted for a bigger tax increase. We have, with the help of some Republican lawmakers, an immovable object in the way of education and spending reform called the Michigan Education Association. For far too long, special interests like the MEA and other public employee unions have had their way with politicians who care more about their jobs then those of their constituents. It's time we reverse that trend and walk a different path, because the one we're on end in a cul-de- sac of misery.