A Bit of Background...

I am an independent. That is an important thing to know about me, if you want to understand my political opinions/views. I really do not care what party a person is from, if they are doing a good job, that's great, if they are not they should be called out on it. As far as I'm concerned, the bipartisan atmosphere in the capitol does nothing but bog things down, as the problem is there, and it is simply a matter of differing opinions as to how to solve it. These differing opinions are then driven even further apart by firm, ofttimes radical, sometimes ridiculous adherence to "party ideology" and by the end of things the debate is so intense as to fail to truly accomplish anything of note because they are unable to reconcile their differences. Instead, they create complex, expensive, inefficient bureaucracy that does little if anything to solve the real problem in the first place, and is a mediocre compromise. This is why we seem to be stuck in a never ending cycle of one poor political choice after another. Well, I guess this is my attempt to make myself feel better about it by publicly complaining.