PUT CHEAP POLITICS ASIDE FOR OUR COAST

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The Bruce Alpert article in today's Times Picayune sums it all up correctly. The bloom is off the rose and who gives a damn. Americas new era of politics is impotent. There is a craving for disasters, so that a chorus from Washington, like bull frogs, can out croak each other about their deep concern. But when the tide of public outcry subsides, here we are left with yet another mess. Right after the spill, every near do well for every interest possible flocked in to get the media limelight, as their numbers ebbed with less attention given to the stories, so did they depart with the heavy media entourages to find the light shining elsewhere. And, Congress, now acting more like a reality TV show than a body put in power to solve problems creates simple and stupid solutions for media sound bites, like shutting down drilling or moving to alternative sources of energy while at the same time creating instability in the only region where we had a backup plan for fuel. All of this played out as we fund one, two, three wars with a broken bank. Absurd.

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