Helloooo! Anybody home????

CBS Television's Steve Kroft, on 60 Minutes, interviewed Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid. He pressed the idea of cooperation, compromise. Why can't it happen to get the work of Congress done?

Steve is not alone. Everywhere we hear that Congress is deadlocked. We need compromise! We need bi-partisan action! We need the parties to come together! Everything will be lovely if the Democrats and Republicans will just reach across the aisle!

Why are all these TV and print reporters being paid such high salaries when they seem to be permanently "out to lunch"? Why can't any of these tunnel vision idiots see the big picture?

We have had years of compromise. We have had decades of bi-partisan cooperation. Congress has worked with the White House to get the job done.

What is the result? $16 trillion in debt ($10 trillion before Obama). Trillion dollar deficits. The housing market nearly non-existent. Unemployment disgracefully high. Elementary education is a disaster, higher education a high-priced waste of time. Energy independence nowhere in sight. Record numbers of Americans on the dole. Entitlement obligations we cannot possibly hope to meet. Daily warnings of a coming fiscal cliff.

They blame the Tea Party. We hear reporters of every stripe call them radical, extreme, obstructionists. Have any of these big time journalists ever left their East Coast neighborhoods? Doesn't seem like it!

In the spring of 2009, a movement of sensible, everyday Americans finally took a good look at their government and realized it was screwing up their beloved country. En masse, they stood up and said, "Stop! No more spending! We don't give a hoot for the consequences. Just stop spending! Fix the entitlements! Eliminate those wasteful, failed government bureaus!"

They are the Tea Party. They are hated, vilified.

Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe said we are lucky when congress is not in session; they cannot hurt you.
Texas Governor Rick Perry said we should follow the Texas legislature's practice; let congress meet for 60 days every other year then go home.

They are the voices of reason. They or ridiculed, ignored.

The high-salaried reporters? They are the stars. The celebrities. Millions hang on their every word!

Amazing.