Stay Tuned For More Bad Leadership

SOMETIMES, IT IT BECOMES very easy to understand why Americans grow frustated with their government in the United States. Now is such a time. On the executive end of Pennsylvania Avenue, President Obama today apologized profusely for all the Americans who have lost their health insurance coverage because of Obamacare, and he pledges that the problem will be fixed, and that he and his team are "looking at options". Excuse Me? looking at options? Is there any reason why the president could not possibly have known this would happen, particularly taking into consideration that the Department of Human Health and Services predicted three years ago that it indeed would happen? Shouldn't the problem have been dealt with three years ago, when Obamacare was legislated? How many "options" are there? What might they be? Would the president condescend to tell us? On the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the legislative end, the Senate passed a bill prohibiting discrimmination against gays in the workplace. Even a few republicans voted for the bill! But it will never pass in the House of Representatives, where Speaker Boehner has a closet full of excuses, all lame, to oppose it. It will inspire frivolous lawsuits. We don't need a new law, discrimmination is already illegal. Blah blah blah. This is the kind of nonsense that prevented the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. constitution in the early nineteen seventies. Some conservatives are actually beginning to accept the fact that American society is tired of treating gay people like outcasts, and they want to be on "the right side of history". Why now, why so belatedly? conservatives never seem to much much about being on the right side of history, the side of progress, unless of course, they feel concerned about potentially losing political power. So there you have it. Lame excuses for executive incompetence, lame excuses for perpetuating social injustice. What more could one possibly expect from one's government, in terms of failing to govern? Stay tuned, there's more. There always is.