Why Nothing Ever Changes In DC

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Why Nothing Ever Changes In DC

Written By : John Hawkins

As I was reading an otherwise humdrum post by Domenico Montanaro over at MSNBC, a particular line jumped out at me because it revealed so much of what’s wrong with politics in America today:

We’re soon coming up on the one-year anniversary of Barack Obama’s presidential win. And one of the messages he used during the two-year campaign — with much success — was that he stood for changing the ways of Washington. But a year later, according to the latest NBC/WSJ poll, Washington is about as unpopular as it ever was. In the survey, just 23% say they trust government, which is the lowest number on this question in 12 years. What’s more, nearly half of respondents (46%) support building an independent political party to compete with the Democrats and Republicans. And nearly six in 10 (57%) blame both Ds and Rs for the partisanship in Washington; 24% blame only the Republicans and 17% blame the Democrats. “I was hoping that business as usual was going to stop with the Obama administration,” said poll respondent Brian Gross of Poolesville, MD, “and so far I just haven’t seen that.” As we’ve asked before: Does the president need to do something symbolic to show he’s trying to change the D.C. culture? Maybe veto a bill with earmarks?

Juxtapose the opening line with the last two sentences:

We’re soon coming up on the one-year anniversary of Barack Obama’s presidential win. And one of the messages he used during the two-year campaign — with much success — was that he stood for changing the ways of Washington.

As we’ve asked before: Does the president need to do something symbolic to show he’s trying to change the D.C. culture? Maybe veto a bill with earmarks?

Note that the dream here isn’t to actually fulfill Obama’s promises and change the culture, it’s to do something symbolic that won’t change the culture at all.

Isn’t that exactly what people are sick of getting from politicians in DC?

http://www.reddirtdude.blogspot.com President_Friedman

I'm sick of the politicians in DC, too, but I'm just about as fed up with the fence stradling philosophically inept moderate voters who keep sending them there.
WP

The American dream comes as a direct result of the liberating power given to us citizens by the Constitution of the United States. The MAIN reason Washington has lost its credibility is that both Republicans and Democrats have forgotten this precious document and accountability to it.

We need to give Ron Paul a bigger microphone!
SanChez

"Does the president need to do something symbolic to show he’s trying to change the D.C. culture? Maybe veto a bill with earmarks?"

I took this sentence as sarcasm and an attempt at humor. Even a symbolic gesture like this would never see the light of day. And if it did, I'm sure the libs would spend the next 8 years talking about obama's brilliance.
Bill_Dalasio

The bottom line here is that, for the political class, objective reality is of far less importance than public perception, that winning the argument is of far less importance than getting it right. But, if a tree falls in the forest, it still makes a noise, no matter how many people you can convince they didn't hear anything. And in the long run, the laws of physics and the laws of mathematics will not be cheated. Vetoing an earmark bill will not change the fact that U.S. debt is escalating at a disturbing pace and that policy is likely to severely impede US growth.