What is it about our “leaders”?  Can they just not get anything right?

 NoPoli is often accused of “discriminating” against Obama and the Democrats.  Not so, folks.  NoPoli is an equal opportunity critic.  It dislikes all lawmakers who put their own agendas ahead of We The People.  Unfortunately, that means just about all of them.

 In this case, the GOP are even bigger jerks than Obama and the Dems.  And that really is not easy to accomplish.

 Perhaps because they’re becoming a little bit anxious about 2012, the left side of the aisle has actually offered a ton of concessions to resolve all of this debt ceiling business.  Enough so that Boener and most of the GOP were prepared to go along and claim a legitimate victory for We The People in achieving these changes.  (Of course, it’s always about the victory, isn’t it, instead of just focusing on We The People?)

 But not good enough for Cantor and the rest of the GOP, who have now forced Boener to recant the agreement he had signaled the other day, and fall back to the typical business as usual political behavior of abandoning the public trust.  No matter the outcome, Boener and Cantor have each made clear that, like Obama, Pelosi and Reid, they too just do not have what it takes to be real leaders.  Too bad because Boener had showed promise.  And, he has a better golf game than Obama, who is really more interested in telling everyone he could have made it in the NBA.

 Perhaps these so called “leaders” would make good poker players, gambling as they do with, and spending, the resources of We The People, but that doesn’t mean they are good leaders.  It is totally wrong to raise the blood pressure of social security recipients who are now worried–unfairly and unnecessarily–that their vital social security benefits may soon be delayed (modest as they are in contrast to the benefits to which Weiner the weasel is now entitled, for his wonderful short-lived service to We The People).  Or to see the credit rating of the federal government impaired, and the cost of our national debt raised even higher than it presently is.  To waste any of our precious public resources on this unnecessary nonsense is just entirely inappropriate.  In fact, it’s truly quite obscene.  And demonstrates–once again–just how morally bankrupt our political “leaders” are.

As 2012 approaches, we really need to focus on sending these leaders home, and finding replacements for them who actually will be willing to serve…We The People.

By the way, California Controller John Chiang had a solution when California lawmakers recently stalled on approving a new budget, as they do every year.  He recently told them he would not issue their next paychecks, then only two weeks off, if they didn’t quit screwing around and do their job.  The new budget, mired in typical politics at that point for some several months, was signed, sealed and delivered in only one week!  How refreshing was that?

When is all this political bunk going to stop?  However, if it did, what would we here at NoPoli have to do?  Somehow…we’re not all that worried.