State of the State

The plight of my state has been all over the news the past several weeks. Yesterday's denial of appointed Senator Burris to be seated in the U.S. Senate was a big deal. While the only "technical" reason why he cannot be seated is that Secretary of State Jessie White did not certify our embattled governor's appointment of Burris, there isn't much else that is keeping Burris out of the Senate seat. What makes me sad, is that it didn't matter who our Governor appointed, any candidate would be going through this same issues. Our governor definitely outsmarted everyone by making the move to appoint Roland Burris, but how can the same state that was the home of our next President also be the same state that is embattled and is the laughing stock of the country. *sigh*

To take it up a level. Let's talk about the Senate Democrats for a bleeping moment. What happened?!? All of a sudden they are infighting and just plain old disorganized. I think it all began after the election on what to do with Liebermann, now it's about seating Burris. Harry Ried is loosing a lot of credibility with me. I understand that Sen. Durbin is behind the Burris blocking, but quite honestly this isn't doing anything for our nation or for that matter the party. While the Democrats were all sitting back watching the Republican party implode with their choice of Palin and loosing many seats in the Congress, I can see Dick Chaney and the others in the party just sitting back and watching all of what is going on with a particular sneer.

I am hoping that come January 20th, change will still come to America.