but srsly.

a few weeks prior to the election i had a dream that barack obama was attempting to feed me roofies. what i'm realizing now is that it's really important to listen to your subconscious cues. i know no one really likes to hear political wank because it's everywhere. but i had another dream last night that i tried to break a bottle over nancy pelosi's head, so maybe it's a sign that i just need to voice my frustrations in a blog that no one reads.

when obama was telling the world that he was change we could believe in, i was not expecting him to fix everything in a short period of time or maybe even ever. but i was kind of expecting him to select a treasury secretary who -- oh, i don't know -- paid his taxes. or make good on the promise of transparency by putting a 1,000+ page bill on the internet for the public to read before having congress vote on it, not after it's already become law. or at least allowing congress sufficient time to read this monster before having to vote on it. or after months of campaigning against pork spending in bills, to actually veto a bill filled with 8,000 of these projects instead of signing it and saying, "this is the last time you're going to get away with this, respresentatives. do you hear me?"

after the stimulus bill first passed, i kept hearing obama say things like, "why wouldn't we replace the federal fleet with hybrid cars?" well, at this very moment in time, that is totally not a fucking priority.

another issue that i am often contemplating is that there is not a lot of accountablity among the government, which is frightening considering how much power they really have. several of these incredibly people regulating the amount of money people give to the government DON'T PAY THEIR OWN TAXES AND DON'T FACE ANY LEGAL REPURCUSSIONS, which is very upsetting to me. but also, nobody will take any fucking responsibility for any type of major fuck up. like chris dodd singing "i didn't have anything to do with those millions of dollars in bonuses given to AIG assholes" one day and then changing his tune to "actually, i sort of did," the next. and yes, i know that president bush did not leave office with anything close to a surplus, but these billions and billions and billions of dollars that are being spent now are not being signed off by bush.

and i don't really fully understand how these people are going to fix a crisis laregely related to people living beyond their financial means by placing the nation into such a staggering level of debt. and i also don't understand how the government can ignore that most economists are not impressed by this plan. but i go to a community college, so what do i know.