Washington vs. America

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Washington-vs-America-by-Brent-Budowski-110728-819.html

Washington is an island drowning in its own self-interest, surrounded by a hurting and unhappy nation of deeply patriotic citizens who hunger for shared national purpose but find our politics to be sickening, insulting and corrupted.

Today huge numbers of the workers of our nation are jobless. The finances of our nation are sinking to banana-republic incompetence. The unity of our nation is being shredded by squabbling factions masquerading as leaders.

The people of our nation view the bastions of power, from Washington to Wall Street, with contempt because they believe, correctly, that those bastions are contemptuous of them, and that those bastions are citadels of selfishness and corruption.

Mr. President, you might pretend you don't care what is said about you on television or written about you in The Hill newspaper, but you know, and I know, you do. Mr. Speaker, did you rise to the second-most-powerful post in America only to face the prospect that someday you might deeply regret that when you were given the gavel, you became another player in a poisonous kabuki drama that our people despise and history will condemn?

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