"Leaders". Who Needs 'Em

Two Views On Who's The Boss

"I'm not looking for a "leader". Every 4 years we put out the Help Wanted sign for President, looking for someone to do what we've no time to accomplish on our own. WE are the leaders, you see, WE are in charge, and since neither Reagan nor Washington nor any of the Founders are traveling this way again anytime soon, WE will handle the leadership chores thank you very much. We look for a man who has the stamina and fortitude and morals to do as we ask, and if he doesn't deliver then its time to hang out the sign again.

Listening to certain weak-kneed 'Conservative' talking heads begging for leadership is pathetic. Shows they just don't get it. The entire American gig was to make US the employers, the leaders, who made the rules and hired who we damned well pleased to make sure the place was kept tidy. The American experience survived LBJ, it survived Mr. Peanut, and the Pelosi's and Boxer's and Kennedy's and Schumers and Clinton, perhaps MOST of all the Clinton's. It'll survive just fine if certain of us make yet another stupid ass mistake and hire some jackass to keep the place in order.

As long as WE remain in charge we'll address the wrongs when need be and right the ship. Freedom isn't cheap or easy or the whole world would be free. We're the ones who decided to fight for such a right and to keep fighting whenever called upon to stand on the cold and dark side of the wall.

The hired help comes and goes but Americans go on forever."
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"Folks, we have a serious perception problem in this country. A bunch of people seem to think we have "leaders" instead of "representatives". Bosses and not employees.

Folks, we hired them. We pay them. They work for you, not the other way around. If you are sitting around and waiting for leadership from this collection of do-gooders, used car salesmen, and former Student Body Treasurers, you might as well wait for Santa while you're at it.

These are the people we hire to schlep out our legislative trash in Washington, DC because we're too busy being, you know, productive to handle scutwork like that. We've given them a metaphorical Roto-Rooter and asked them to keep the navigable waterways clear; handed them a calculator and asked them to keep an eye on the national checking account. And, like a sixteen year-old left home with a simple list of chores who instead gets into the liquor cabinet and invites her friends over for a party, look what's happened to them.

Folks, if you want "Political Leaders" you're living in the wrong country; the closest provision we have for a "Political Leader" in the Constitution is the guy we hire to mind the Army & Navy and shake hands with foreigners for us. This is the country where we're supposed to be leading ourselves, not waiting for solutions to be handed down from on high. Your representatives are supposed to be representing you, hence the name. They are not the legislative equivalent of grenades, where you pull the electoral pin, lob them towards Washington, and hope they go off the way you expected. They're your employees; you need to tell them what to do and keep an eye on them, or they'll be stealing the petty cash and spending their whole shift leaning on a broom handle and slacking off.

Don't wait to be led."