F the midterm elections
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- Category: Farshad Farzad
- Published on Monday, 13 September 2010 22:46
- Written by Farshad Farzad
Mid term elections are almost here. The midterm elections! Midterm Elections! Woo Hoo. Wait, what? Does anyone really care? I consider myself pretty politically active, yet I can care less about politics these days. I can only imagine what the “first time” voters from 2008 are thinking.
As I was mowing the lawn this weekend, I realized that midterm elections are like cutting the grass. For two weeks you let the lawn grow, hoping that weed that you chopped down last time will cease to exist.
You hope that with some rain and sunshine your grass will grow pristine and well manicured. Isn’t that exactly like the midterm elections? We vote for one party or the other, one candidate or another and one movement or another, yet two years later here we are looking at that same uneven growing grass.
I claim to be a Republican, but the more I reflect I realize I don't even know what my “party” stands for anymore. It's not for the American people, it's not for the security of America and it is certainly not for fiscal conservatism.
Do elections even matter? Does our government even govern anymore? The Democrats pushed through Healthcare reform with the majority of Americans against it. The Republicans pushed through tax cuts and Medicare expansion with no plans to actually pay for it.
Our candidates campaign on the promise to “shake up Washington,” to pass “comprehensive this or comprehensive that,” they promise to bring “real change,” yet it doesn’t change; it is all the same. Then two years later we go back and have that same hope that things will be different…
Just like when I go to mow the lawn again I am hoping that the grass has grow even, that the promise of comprehensive growth will be fulfilled.
Yet just like all elections, after all the excitement dies down, we have that same old boring uneven CONGRESS.
I think it's time to get rid of “term limits” in Congress. Let's let the House serve 3 years and then they have to sit out 3 years before they can run again. Lt's make the Senate term 5 years with the same cooling off period. This would hopefully allow our leaders to pass real legislation rather than focusing on short term gain aimed at the next election.
