Well, it is, (Drumrolls please) Super Tuesday. Wow. I am so excited. Not really, but somehow it sounds so very un- American not to be, excited. So un-American to be skeptical as yet another Presidential Election looms on the horizon. However, I am an American. One who has joined the ranks of other fellow citizens who are frustrated with the way things are, the way things seem to be heading, and the very bleak reality that things will change very little, for a great while. We are reserved in our excitement.

Look at it this way. People lie to get what they want. Don't take my word for it. Just visit the local singles bar, or other places folks go to meet other folks. See how many extremely interesting professions are represented there, and how many heroic stories are told, and how many extremly interesting individuals remain so, under closer investigation.

For example, the well dressed young man with chiseled features, who owns his own business, mountain climbs, and recentley rescued little kittens from drowning. Eventually you discover he was well dressed because he was wearing a rented suit for some special occasion he was participating in. That the only mountain he has ever ascended is the one piled up and around his trash can, and the kittens he saved were, in fact, in a card board box sitting in his tub which he moved out of the way to take his once a week shower. Further, upon closer inspection, the business he referred to consists of collecting aluminum cans from anyplace they may present themselves, stuffing them into a stinky plastic bag, and selling them to the local recycling center. He also assured you it is easy to live on $65.00 a month if you budget right.

People are people. Do you think politicians are any different? If you do, then prepare to be extremely shocked. Do we not always hear how change and good things are on the horizon if we just elect so and so? Are we not promised reform, budget balancing, and peace and good will amoung men around every election? Do we not hear the faults of each and every candidate as they point fingers at one another every time elections are near? Do we ever see the promises fulfilled which have been waved in front of us in exchange for your very near and dear VOTE?

Not really. We get Status-Quo. We get stuff like, "Well I really want to create Health Care Reform, but the Sentate, (or Congress, or other entity) refuses to work within the parameters of our wishes." Or some other such nonsense and double talk.

Some way we have to get the point across to those we send out into the cold cruel world of Washington Beaurocracy to represent us, that they were placed in such a position because we "trust" them. We "trust" them to look after our interests. They need to understand they were elected because their views represented the majority of their constituents. We are not interested in whatever pet project they, may or may not have, kept hidden from us during their campaign. In fact, they need to understand the need to represent those who put them there, and not themselves.

So what are we to do? I don't know, but I do offer this suggestion. How hard would it be to make it legal for folks to get together and "Fire" the politicians who are not doing the job they were elected to do? Why not? We put them there! We, in fact hired them, by paying with our precious vote. (And don't hand me that Impeachment stuff either because that process takes forever.) Why can't they just be "Fired".? No hearing, no delay, pack up your desk and don't let the door hit you.... well, you know the rest.

Go to work tomorrow, ignore all your friends, and what ever directions your boss gives you to follow. Take an extra hour or so for lunch. While you are at it, grab a few bucks from the petty cash box and buy a couple rounds at lunch. Don't forget to punch out an hour or two early, and forget that monthly report that is due in a couple of days too. If it was that important, they would have given it to someone else anyway. By all means, don't forget to pad your Travel and Entertainment Vouchers also. Now I am no genious by any stretch of the imagination, but if you do all that on a daily basis, I believe even the most patient boss may possibly let you know you are no longer needed. Fair is fair.

I'm just Sayin.