PEOPLE'S COPING SKILLS HIT OVERDRIVE

It is really difficult to listen to the haranguing amongst the 'so-called leaders' of our country.  The media seems to give more time to the Tea Partiers these days.  The reasoning behind this decision escapes me but I sure there is one there since MSNBC has been hosting a House Republican Tea Partier nigihtly.  Never having been one to suffer fools easily, these interviews have sorely tried my patience and credulity.  Some commentators have referred to the Tea in "Tea Party" as the bacronym "Taxed Enough Already"

Today I learned the definition of a backronym.  Wikopedia defines it as :  "It is constructed by taking an existing word already in common usage, and creating a new phrase using the letters in the word as the initial letters of the words in the phrase. For example, the United States Department of Justice assigns to their Amber Alert program the meaning "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response," although the term originally referred to Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old abducted and murdered in Texas in 1996".

Amazingly, people who think we are overtaxed seem not to know any math.  They do not know that, if the rich shared in taxes proportionately to income as do the poor, we would need to do far less to balance the budget.  But alas, their deficiencies allow them to spout off as they they had been annointed by God when they were elected to the House of Representatives.

They are currently professing to be seriously disappointed in President Obama but have no idea just how disappointing they have been to the American public.  Instead of coming to Washington to improve the lot of the American people, they march to their own drummer and seem to want to push progress back 40 or more years.

Coping mechanisms are creaking everywhere.  They need far more than the political equivalent of  WD40.It must be similar when a child sees a parent fly off into a temper tantrum.  I will not spout platitudes.  I can only say that I hope the current Administration has a plan to.no longer try the patience of the American people with an attempt to compromise with a party that has openly and firmly states they are only interested in having Obama fail and be a one-term president.

Please, let's prove them wrong!