Election's over: Now get your butts to work!

It’s time to set aside our differences, remove whatever hatchet or axe we think is stuck in our skulls or backs, and get back to the business of running the country. Regardless of whom you cast a vote for it’s the job of our representatives to move the country along in a positive direction. We have a great many issues facing us, not the least of which revolves around the so-called fiscal cliff, and we need our Federal representatives to work together for the good of the country.

For one person, I am really tired of Federal stagnation. Whatever happened to doing what is best for the country, and not doing what will frustrate the other parties? I thought the job of our elected officials was progress. It seems we get caught up in cronyism, partisan politics, and a lot of other secondary and tertiary matters that does nothing except make things worse for us taxpayers.

So Barrack Obama won, and won convincingly, I might add. The country has spoken. Despite the GOP’s constant assault, they were not able to generate enough enthusiasm to win the election.

It’s time to think about that.

Over the last four years, the GOP has had this underpinning idea that if they could stall long enough, they would be able to oust Obama in the 2012 election. Wrong! Guess what? That means the majority of the populace approves of what the Democrats have been putting in place. It means, despite the egos, that the populace wants to continue to follow that path.

It’s time to stop being an obstacle, and try to move on. There is room for compromise. But someone has to make the first steps. Congress needs to find some reconciliation to put the needs of the country first.  There’s time enough to rebuild the parties and restructure the planks to address what might happen in 2016, but if we don’t start making positive steps we may not need to worry about the election four years hence.

It’s time we found common ground. Can we find common ground? Yes, it may not be what you want, but it can be enough of what you want to be a workable solution. We need to have a budget, we need to stick to the budget, and we need to fund the budget. I don’t know about you, but running a house without some semblance of a budget is hard enough, I can’t imagine what it might be for the government. Oh, no, wait a minute, that’s not totally true. Running the government without a budget brings us to the state we are in now.

Let’s start there. Let’s vote for a budget, and work out whatever needs to be done to get us there. Most people are not against Obamacare apparently, and certainly we live in a time when some kind of basic medical care ought to be provided. The issue is who gets it, and what’s it going to cost. The law is already more costly than its supporters first indicated. No question any form of socialized medicine is going to be a burden on the tax payers, but so be it. It’s not like we can do anything about that now. The thing to do now is find the pieces that are broken or that don’t work as prescribed, and fix them. No one expects a policy of this size to go through without there being a few bugs.

Instead of whining and crying about a bitter defeat, it’s time that Boehner and his cronies settle down to the business of governing. Quit putting up roadblocks, and start working on cleaning up the grid-lock that defines Washington DC. If you are unwilling to work things out, maybe you are the problem.