When I Was a Kid

Crawling on the floor I really wanted tp put my hands on that object that sat atop my mother's coffee table. It was made of glass and it had pretty flowers in it. I have never seen anything that looked so beautiful. I was too short and small to grab it with my hands outright; I needed a plan.

Lifting myself up by my tiny hands solidly planted on the edge of the coffee table, I lifted my body up to the level of the coffee table. The object was so close I could almost just reach for it. It was then that my grandmother saw what I was trying to do and she immediately came to rescue the object from my wrecking ball hands. I protested vehemently. Crying and screaming I really wanted that beautiful flower vase.

My grandmother was a master at devising distraction. With her free hand she started shaking her key ring. I still had my eyes fixed on the flower vase that she securely held in her other hand. She made so much noise with her key ring that the sounds and the dangling objects finally pried my attention away from the flower vase. My attention now redirected, I ceased my crying and began to reach out for the key ring.

Obama, his cabinet, including all his czars and Congress are experts at the art of distraction. Imagine them using the death of Michael Jackson to pry our focus and attention away from the Cap and Trade legislation long enough for them to craft the bill and ram it down our throats. They are doing the same thing with their healthcare bill. They are using the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings as a distraction. In the dark of night and in the secrecy of their smoke-filled backrooms they are feverishly crafting yet another expensive killer bill to push through their socialized medicine, single payer system of government run health insurance. Who is minding the store?

A few Republicans are trying to have their voices heard but the din and cacophony created by Nancy Pelosi's gong wielding dogs is just too much for the soft-spoken, polite, inept if not docile Republicans. It is obvious to the most casual observer that this one party rule is not doing the country's economy any good. It is not doing small business any good when the president himself, instead of lowering taxes, is raising taxes. It is clear that people who hate America have taken over the reins of government and are overreaching.

Will the people wake up in time to make the 2010 elections count and make a difference? We shall see.