Why They Won't Wait

I'm getting tired of all the nonsense.

Nine million kids are without health care in this country. Nine million. And it doesn't look like anybody's going to do anything about it now.

All that trouble. All that discussion. All that ranting. For nothing.

All the Republicans can do is smirk; their intransigence worked like a fine-tuned watch. All the Democrats can do is disagree with each other.

Leadership? Ha. Where is it?

We have a President who ran on the outrageous idea that there actually were a few things in the world bigger than people themselves. He's been slammed around like a pinball.

We're a year after the last elections. Where are the jobs? The "jobless recovery" is nonsense. Who is it, exactly, who's recovering?

So the deficit, apparently, will be skyrocketing if the President's new budget passes. And this will help whom? For how long?

In the meantime, state governments will have to accept teacher merit pay as one of the prime conditions upon which to get more federal assistance for education. Some states will do this deal with the devil; some won't.

Where they won't, the teachers' unions are getting the brunt of the blame. But this will not work. It hasn't yet. Why would it now?

There's a lot of frustration out here, away from Washington. For the first time in quite a while, I'm beginning to understand why people get fed up. Nobody seems to be listening. They're in their own world.

To be sure, there's an inclination for that to happen inside the Beltway. Nothing else seems to matter. Trouble is, that comes home for a visit a little too late, oftentimes, for anybody to do anything about it.

I think it will happen again in November. People are fed up. They want the country to improve. They waited for a while, but they aren't waiting any longer.