Bewildered, Bemused

Or Depressed

I have delayed the writing of this post for several weeks in the hope that one or more of our senators or representative would break their silence and answer our questions which we sent to them several weeks ago. In my posting dated March 23, 2011 I wrote about the letters and e-mails which we sent to our Senators (Alexander and Corker) and our Representative (Blackburn). Two of those e-mails to Alexander were answered with form letters which didn't even address our concerns. The third e-mail to Alexander, sent about the first of March, has gone unanswered. The letters to Corker and Blackburn which were sent in early February (same questions) have not, at this time, been answered. I invited all three to check out this blog spot but I have no way of knowing whether they did or not.
I know, from all they have accomplished there in Washington, they are extremely busy but surely they could spare a highly paid aide for a few hours a day to answer the questions posed by their constituents who might be searching for a way to justify their continued support. Or not.
We are not, at this time, prepared to emphatically state that we will vote against them in their next elections but we are thinking about sitting out our first election since Eisenhower's second term. I guess what it boils down to is "who else is running". Tea party, maybe?

In the April 10, 2011 posting I wrote these lines; "In my opinion the best thing to come out of that 11th hour compromise on the Continuing Resolution for the 2011 budget was not the almost forty billion dollars cut from that budget, as proposed by President Obama, but the promise extracted from Senator Harry Reid. Almost all the way up to that 11th hour Senator Reid had always said outright that a vote on the de-funding of "Obamacare" and "Planned Parenthood" would never be brought to the floor of the Senate but it has been reported that he agreed to such a vote".
Thursday afternoon it was announced on television that the bill(s) to de-fund "Obamacare" and "Planned Parenthood" were brought to the floor and voted down. Nothing was said about who or how many senators voted for the bill(s). If that is all the attention that vote gets in the media then it will mean nothing in the 2012 election and will only go toward strenghtening my belief that all politicians, Republican, Democrats and Independents, are the same. All have the "Me First Syndrome". It is so depressing, I feel as though I have aged years in the last few months.

So many of the commercials (infomercials) on television are by lawyers solicitating clients with these words; "If you have been injured - in a car wreck, by this medicine, blah blah blah - you may be entitled to compensation. Call the law office of so and so. Has this whole world become lawsuit crazy?

We had thunderstorms again Thursday but Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and the Carolinas had tornadoes with at least 25 killed (as of Sunday morning) so, again, we here on the hill came out pretty good.
It was damp and cold yesterday and overnight and I didn't feel up to getting outside very much. Hopefully it will be better next week and we can do a little more work in yard and garden. The Iris are beginning to bloom but they don't look as good as they have in the past, probably because they haven't been taken care of the way they should have been.

It is cooler this morning than was predicted. We covered up our tomatoes, cucumbers and squash last night but we'll have to wait a while to see if they made it. I believe they should have but if not we can replant.
Thanks for your time and input. Stay tuned. - William