I'll cut our elected dems some slack - on programming, requirements, and changes

So I switched jobs this year in the company. I am a programmer/developer now (was manager of 2 data centers).

It is ok, I work from home (which is why I wanted the change, so I could take care of wife and move) but some things just plain suck.

And the things that suck got me to thinking about our elected leaders, Iraq, etc.

I will explain: I was tasked in early Jan with creating a web site. Seemed easy enough. Gather some data, toss it out to a data base, and also put the data into a text file to be uploaded to a third party tool (their tool was not able to reach all our sites, so this was a middle-ware solution).

So here I am in mid March. Still programming it, 4 full sites now, and ever changing requirements and interfacing with a third party application and data base (which they have not bothered to explain to us so I had to reverse engineer it).

On our elected officials:
We have new members, senior members, a plethora of ideas on how and when to do X, and politics for the here and now and future.

And we have millions of people with many different ideals all wanting their ideas to be implemented now - with no real thought sometimes of how A can affect B.

Pull out now, gays in the military now, health care for all now, pull out in a phased manner, cut funding, increase taxes now, wait till later, environmental changes yesterday, more gun laws today, etc and so on ad nauseum.

but what is it our elected officials are facing and why do they do the things they do?

Well, for starters, a lot of people on the left with different ideals. So they sit around thinking how to please them all, how to keep the swing voters on their side as well so they can keep their jobs and keep us in power, rules and regulations, back room politics and how to scratch each others' back, and the list can go on and on.

It will take them time. They will have to play politics, and they will do so, no matter how much we hate the whole ideal. They won't swing too far left as they fear doing so will swing the swing voters to the other side quickly and then we will be back where we started from.

Baby steps, when we want giant leaps. Frustrates the hell out of me and you. But let's look at what we get with smaller steps.

Take for example seat belts. They started with 'it's a secondary offense and will stay that way' then it became a primary one many places. Then it was 'no smoking in offices' moved to 'no smoking in bars, any public place' and is now moving to 'no smoking in your own yard if someone else can smell it (as i posted on previously)'.

Give em time, but keep prodding them along. Just keep in mind they are on our side - and their baby steps are better than the giant leaps back the RW wants to take us.

We can bitch all day about how compromise, etc, sucks - but that is what they have to deal with.

At least until America is ready to elect people like DK en masse and into the white house as well.

The democratic party is not forgetting the voters - and we must not either, or we will be out of power again and not making any steps.

I'd have to run myself.

for not doing enough fast enough.

I admit they DO frustrate me, and not saying we should not call em on slacking - but hell, we need to try and understand things.

So I will cut em SOME slack, but still - like my boss does - push em gently. Cause right now, they are all we got in the hope dept.

I am way too thin-skinned to ever do it, but I give a lot of credit to those who are willing to put themselves out there to be criticized, attacked, mocked, accused, investigated, picketed, vilified, threatened, and insulted — by members of the same party, let alone the opposition. I doubt I'll ever have the guts to run for office, so I should show at least some respect to those (Democrats) who do. While, of course, guiding them in the right direction. We do need someone to run, don't we?