Not in my backyard

NOT IN MY BACKWARD.
Not long ago one of the candidates for the republican nomination for president suggested that it would be no problem to drill for oil in the Everglades. Now one of her Tea Parry & fellow Republican friends from Flordia has said not in our back yard. congressman West is one of the more maybe one of the most censerative members of Congress.

Now being a liberal democrat you may think I am picking on them. I am not. I realize that all the members of congress have an election coming up. They do not want to offend the voters. Rural members want to protect the payments to farmers. Many members who call for budget cuts but cry foul if you cut one bullet from the defense budget. Then you have the members who will not here of any changes in Medicare or Social Security. They will tell you how the world will come it an end.

I am willing to bet the majority of people do not believe any of them. They may play to the base. Concerned they will have primary opposition. Concerned they will be looking for a new job.

This is going someplace I had not intded.

So who fault is it? Is it the politician? Maybe it is the media. No!!!

I believe it is us. So few of us vote in the primary. Parties protect their members. Until the day comes that we take the few minutes it takes to vote we will have people who tell us "DO IT THIS WAY UNLESS IT HURTS MY FRIENDS THEN DO IT ANOTHER WAY"