A bad case of Partisan Blindness Syndrome

Polls indicate congressional approval at 9 percent, plus or minus. Got to be wrong. No way it can be this high. The President’s approval rating is 40 percent, plus or minus.  Seems that folks see Congress as bungling, but the President not so much. I don’t get it.

Then again, I don’t understand Partisan Blindness Syndrome, which decrees that Democrats, or Republicans, blame each other for everything. The truth, I feel, is that both parties (House and Senate) in Washington, D.C. suffer from chronic PBS, exacerbating their flagrant incompetence. Congressmen care not a smidgen for you and me. I would prefer leadership, not narcissistic, egomaniacal party line robots.  

Our President? Can we indict a president for ineptitude, inability and self-importance? Can’t throw him out in 2016 … he’s a lame duck. I fantasize that political torque from the masses, applied to the Oval Office, will result in déjà vu… a Nixonian moment.

I feel we the people have representation without representation, but being a flaming optimist I believe we the people will force congressional, and presidential, rudders back into the water.

God bless America, and God bless our military.

STEVE BRIXEN

Sandpoint