I’ve been taking another break from blogging lately. You can tell by the almost non-existent amount of posts over at my blog. Part of this has been from the holidays, another part being sick, but mostly being sick of politics. I’m tired of the last 5 years of Bush’s presidency with “the latest scandal” being introduced mostly being smoke in mirrors. The moral of the story of any “scandal” is just wait two weeks until the truth comes out. Remember Rathergate? (Fake but accurate). Or the criminal charges against Tom Delay? You know it can’t be good when after six grand juries, the first charge gets thrown out for not really being a crime. The NSA wiretaps spying on Americans? Oh wait, it was data mining of calls to Al Qaeda. This is largely political discourse lately, and it bores me. That’s not to say it isn’t necessary, but the investment of the left to continually discover a new scandal and have it blow up in their faces is old.

Lately, we’ve gotten to Abramoff, and instead of using this opportunity to get some more corruption out of politics (with something like term limits, or Gingrich’s suggestion of no DC fund-raising) it’s nothing more than another political crapshoot, with the parties not focusing on the corruption but how to best obtain and maintain political power. This is directed at both parties because they are so willing to go on the attack instead of enunciating a platform people can rally around. Sure, the GOP has done some of that but when is the last time you heard a politician talking about Social Security reform? Fair tax? Both sides have left policy discussion on the table to mud wrestle. And I’m bored.

I might write more in the near future, but hopefully less of what I’m against and more what I’m for. This is the converstaion that is necessary, the discussion of policies and ideas. And it’s clear the Left really isn’t up for it.

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