The "Change" We Really Do Need

I am blessed. Not only were we able to recover our remaining luggage late yesterday but my generous host has cable TV and Fox News. I'm not confined to CNN as a sole source and that's a very good feeling.

As I sit and watch the news about the machinations of the Senate and House I am struck by the way it looks like our government has turned our Constitution upside down. The manner in which they have handled the so-called Cap & Trade bill and health care is more dictatorial than democratic.

Clearly a majority of Americans do not want the government to take over the health care system yet Washington is not listening. Our only recourse is to use the democratic process to rid ourselves of those who ignore the simple fact that the government is supposed to work for us and not for their party and their ideology. The time has come to demand transparency in the legislative process.

Transparency is absolutely necessary for our democracy to survive and was promised by the President in his campaign. It is one of our most basic rights as citizens so why is it so hard for those in charge to provide it? The answer is astoundingly simple: They believe that the political ruling class should make the decisions because they know best and the people be damned.

The Constitution says they serve at our behest but act like they believe they rule because it is their right. Isn’t it time we changed that attitude? We can do start some of it this November by electing Republicans in New Jersey and Virginia and we can continue the process in November 2010. To do it properly though, we need to recall some of those who are at the center of the ongoing perfidy in Washington.

Won’t the people of Nevada and San Francisco do something? Or are they satisfied with what is going on?

What do you think?