tran•sit (noun) – in the process of traveling or being transported from one place to another

Last week I didn’t know much about Scott Brown and Martha Coakley.  Well, as it turns out, she’s an arrogant, do-nothing politician and he’s an arrogant, do-less-than-nothing politician.  Neither brought much to their campaigns in the way of ideas or passion for anything other than filling a seat in the Senate with their unworthy butts.  The very independent and boisterously fed up Massachusetts electorate merely voted for the 2010 version of CHANGE they barely believe in.  Why is anybody surprised?

Personally, I wish I had a “don’t-give-a-crap” attitude, but I have been cursed, (or blessed), by hyperactive ‘doing’, ‘giving’ and ‘crapping’ as long as I can remember.  I marched, sat-in and card-burned when there was marching, sitting and cards to burn, and now I blog away as if my words have any more real impact than all of the overt activities of my past.  I watch, in disgust, the missteps and misdeeds of public officials, whose actions adversely effect humanity, hoping against hope for a righteous voice to emerge from the babble.  And just when I’d thought that a likely candidate had shown up, he turned out to be  way less than advertised.

Obama has a clear, intense and seemingly honest voice that could have transported us far from the mumbly, smirking, mispronunciations of his predecessor, (lately, the mumbly, smirking, mispronouncing half of Haitian relief), but the corruptive influence of his office has, in too short order, driven a wedge of distrust between his agenda and its perception by the drooling masses.  On health care alone, he has changed direction so many times, in order to pass something, anything, that even his most staunch supporters, (I’m raising my hand), feel betrayed.  He has simply waited too long to act decisively in easing the burden of the free-fall of our working class, and his choice to play politics rather than to insist on real CHANGE has allowed the nay-saying opposition to appear as if they have a viable alternative, (Scott Brown?).  It’s simply not that difficult to identify the most egregious improprieties that are business-as-usual in the health care and banking industries.  Nobody wants to be overcharged for services or denied life-saving treatment or to be victimized by fraud or greed.  These are the commonalities that can bring about real CHANGE and they don’t have to be hidden in incomprehensible tomes of bullshit.  Pass them one element at a time, (on C-SPAN…really!).  “Everybody in favor of not denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions, raise your hand.”  DONE.  “Everyone for fair interest rates for using credit cards or borrowing money…hands?”

We, the people, are fed up with all of you politicians.  We are united by the fact that we are being lied to by the left, right and center and the divisiveness which has ensued is unhealthy to our future.  Our common ground is what makes us strong and if we cannot return our focus to the core elements of a responsibly productive society, we are lost.

And…a shout out to five-ninths of our Supreme Court for reversing 100 years of attempted, (though mostly failed), restraint of big corporations being free to buy and sell candidates and policy.  It’s obviously what the founding fathers had in mind.