Ya big Nancy!

So. The vote was something like 150ish-43ish to elect Pelosi House Minority Leader... A 3-1 margin made this fruit bat the continuing face of the Democratic Party, even with ousted Democrats blaming her for their lost seats. Brilliant. Really.

So what it is it that is going to happen now? Anything different than if she were not Minority Leader? Probably not. We will see continuing evidence that she is absolutely around the bend. Every word from her mouth, backed by 2/3 of her party, as I have said before, should be another nail in the Democrat coffin in 2012.  Her continued unabashed support of Obama and his anti-Capitalist, anti-Constitution, and anti-American policies, and vice-versa, will do the damage it needs to.

However, I think and hope that no matter the lunacy that the Dems come up with, people will be paying far more attention to the reactions of the Republicans. I hope that more attention will be paid to the ramifications of passing or not passing Bills as opposed to the semantics and symbolism, politics and hyperbole that are so blatant.

Example: The extension of the Unemployment benefits. There is no money for this. People dependent on the benefits, for whatever reason, rather than admit that extension is not going to help the debt and therefore the overall economy, will adopt the 'me' attitude that crippled the country in the first place and become part of the problem. This is an untenable position for someone who truly has no other means, but I think that there are more people out there that could work, but make a choice not to. After all, you can get a gubment check for what? 60%  of what you made before, or get a job for 50% of what you used to make in a field you consider beneath you. Or a Union member who made 3 times what at non-Union worker made and had the means to save some of that exorbitant salary for 'a rainy day' is now drawing down benefits that are greater than that non-Union worker who still has a job. What to do? Leave the Union and go work for a prevailing wage? Yeah, right?

There is no sense of the common good now. Even I am not immune to an attitude of doing only for me and mine. Perhaps, if I didn't see so much of my family income stolen from me before we ever get it, I would feel a little more altruistic. I would help the truly needy people in the country if it were a choice. As it stands, I have many levels of government that take care of anyone who chooses to be a good subject.

Fortunately, we have the psychotic Prozac smile and inane statements of Nancy Pelosi, and the arrogant condescension of Barack Obama to remind us for another two years what is wrong with this country.