Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The Much Anticipated Inauguration
Whether or not you find yourself in complete agreement with President Obama's election to office, complete disagreement, or somewhere smack dab in the middle (like myself), you have to admit, that is a lot of people.
I'm looking forward to this presidency. You know there's this sort of all encompassing aura of implicit change among the masses, which isn't altogether a bad thing, that I think will be handily malnutritioned and regrettably short lived in the coming weeks and months of the new Oval Office.
While I think President Obama really does breathe change, he is facing an adversary that will cripple the only two good years he's going to have in his first term: The economy. The bottom line is that this recession is pretty bad, and it will probably take in between one and two years to overcome the challenges that face our incredibly diverse and complicated marketplace. Unfortunately for Obama, those are the only two years during his first term that he will have a democratic Congress to pass the liberal legislation that he won't have time to scribe. All of this political jargon that we all want to believe in could have been possible in this mixed up bipartisan Capitol Hill nonsense, were it not for the state of the economy.
In two years time however, the right will take back the houses, they will reclaim the process of drafting legislation, and from then on through Obama's first term, it will be nothing but a written law vs. veto battle between the legislative and executive branches, that will benefit no one, yet somehow further the notion of what this country has become.
You see, we no longer have checks and balances, we are checks and balances. There are nothing but checks and balances being strewn about in Washington which means that the only way the President, or Congress, can get anything done is illegally. Which is where the Supreme Court steps in to issue more checks and balances to the already checked and balanced.
You know what America? I think we have finally done it. We have finally become what we always wanted to be. We have finally become exactly what the Ancient Greeks knew to be ridiculous and idiotic. We have become exactly what our forefathers never wanted us to become.
We have become a Democracy.
