Santorine: And Now for the āBlamestormingā
I like to celebrate places that have great organizational dynamics and where people interact in positive ways, and are relentless about solving problems for themselves and the people they serve. I also shake my head in disbelief when I see a little less than half of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives forgetting why they are there and instead spend their time finger pointing in the worse kind of way. āBlamestormingā is about the worst thing any group of people can do. Itās a natural response, but itās one that gifted leaders work to avoid. Itās incredibly toxic, and it sucks the positive energy right out of any activity. It creates a bad āvibeā and an environment from which nothing positive is permitted to emerge. Iām watching the Democrats go all in on āblamestormingā. Most of them are running away from what needed to be done, which was to re-open the government. Watching them run while simultaneously finger pointing is downright funny. Our representatives and senators in Congress donāt deal in solutions. True to their legal roots, they are looking for someone who did wrong, and all they want to do is punish them. Remember, the legal system deals with punishment, not solutions. As opposed to businesspeople, like our President, whoās focusing his considerable energies on creative problem solving. Our President is interested in building something, not pointing fingers, which in essence is tearing something down. As Iām writing this, the continuing resolution to reopen our government is working its way through the legal labyrinth that is the āprocessā inside the beltway, but even before the government is totally re-opened, alleged Democrat leaders are acting like the vampires they are, and are out looking for blood. āProgressivesā (another word for communists) are calling for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumerās head and demanding his resignation. California Gov. āMoonbeamā Gavin Newsom, who had exactly zero input into this Democrat lead shutdown, is calling those who voted to re-open the governmentās āDefectorsā. They seem so convinced that a few more weeks of inflicting pain on the people would have awarded them with what they wanted for their lazy constituents. Schumer, like many legislators, has never accomplished anything except for acting as a political hack, and his incompetence showed as he led our government into the shutdown. Heās not a negotiator, and he worked to make his signature shutdown as painful as possible on his constituents all the while attempting to lay the blame at the feet of the Republicans. It didnāt work, though, because the American people are smarter than that. The fact Schumer backed his party into a corner from which he didnāt have the skills to escape has to be embarrassing to those who put him into a position of power. The fact he really didnāt care about his constituents, or for those of his co-conspirators in the Senate showed through with stunning clarity. That is why he will likely be unceremoniously dumped, and that is why Schumer and his West Coast comrade, Nancy Pelosi, are the poster children for term limits. They are well past their āBest Byā dates, and itās time to elect some people who are FOR something as opposed to AGAINST everything. As the polar vortex is coming through DC, there will be a political vortex of āblamestormingā as well. Both are chilly, and itās about time we the people said we have had enough - enough of the political brinksmanship, excessive regulation and taxation, and enough of the stupid beltway games that donāt benefit anyone or fix broken government programs. Broken like our healthcare system. It would be convenient if there were some tall ships with excessively taxed tea with which we could make a statement. Because itās time. Read the full article
