Let's be done with the bickering

I read today about how the Republicans in Washington are stalling committee meetings in retaliation for the Democrats passing health care in a tricky way. I don't know the Roberts rules of order, but to this fairly middle of the road American, it looks like High school antics. I know the stuff we are facing is considerable and deserves the finest minds in the nation working on it, but I don't vote for people who won't work it out. I vote for people who are willing to stand on their ideals and do what is right.

On health care, I don't know what is right, but the situation right now is that ordinary people have a hard time going up against big faceless bureaucracies. So some level of oversight is needed. I believe some of the Replican ideas about smaller, more efficient government, but the system needs to protect those who can not easily negotiate their own outcomes. How this relates to the actual bill of legislation for health care reform, I think most don't know because we don't have the time to read all of it. Most Americans must trust the legislator that we sent to work on it. But is that trust justified with what has been spoken about the health bill and extensive pork that inhabits its pages?

What is advertised about the current Republican outlook, is that it is every man for himself. In the Republican model free markets reign and people are able to suceed or fail spectaculerly according to their own choices. What a great idea for a small growing nation of rugged individualists. But does the model still work for a crowded teaming nation run by large multi-national corporations?

LET ME BE CLEAR, this does not make me a socialist, do not mistake my words... I want to be free enough to determine my own destiny, but things need to be fair. If I work like a dog, there should be a larger reward than for someone who does not put in the time that I do... But if I am a Detroit autoworker who has been told that the company would take care of me for my whole life, while this seems to many to be a silly assumption, I think this "contract" should be honored.

We live in the real world, and every political act has it's consequences. the Republicans have a point in saying that the changes that are made by the health care bill will have unintended consequences. But it does not absolve them or the Democrats from the responsibility of coming together and working it out. Everyone involved has shown a willingness to use "tricks" to make a point or advance a political cause, this will have repurcussions for everyone in the next election. But above all, every elected official was sent to office with a job to do. And I do not feel that the job is to be the obstruction in the river that holds back the waters of change.
It is time to deal with the issues of today. Let's be done with the bickering.