Dear Voter, Have Another Piece Of Cream Pie

Cream pie for dessert (if you don't have a weight problem) is yummy.  But, if you're a 5-year old and won't first eat your broccoli, or whatever vegetable and meat or fish your mom has served, there's a problem.  Moms with little kids who know there's cream pie in the frig often find themselves with a screaming child on their hands.

Politicians face the same problem with voters -- only politicians don't care.  Mom's view their obligation to the child as never ending.  Politicians have neither the time or talent to explain to the voter why health care can only be served up after the costs of delivering such care is brought down to reasonable levels, or finding the revenues to pay for it.  Their obligation seems only to extend to getting themselves through the next election.

It's not only healthcare.  Consider immigration:  Most reasonable voters; both Democrats and Republicans can see that some sort of amnesty must be extended to most illegal immigrants from Mexico.  Most of these immigrants are great people.  Obama's list of illegals who shouldn't have to face deportation seems quite reasonable.  But, that list of people to whom amnesty ought to be granted is the easy part.  It's the cream pie.  The other part, the broccoli, is securing the border.  For a sovereign nation not to secure it's borders seems in comprehensible.  But, apparently not to Obama.  He trivializes the issue.  He's said words to the effect that the Republicans would have him build a moat along the border and then -- with a pause and a chuckle -- "They'd like us to put alligators in it."  It makes one scratch one's head.  Is Obama the man in the White House, the man who is our president, or is he someone running for councilman in Chicago.

Then there's America's energy needs.  It would be nice if America's needs could be met with windmills, or by converting the sun's light into energy, or by harnessing the tides.  But, it's just not possible.  Nuclear energy would be another fine path, but the Greens and the Anti-War crowd throw cold water on that idea by first, warning us of what happened to Japan -- disregarding the fact that Japan sits on major geological fault lines found only in certain easily identifiable parts of our country -- and by distorting our environmental laws in ways that prohibit us from safely disposing our nuclear waste.

We've reduced our dependency on foreign oil, but we're far from completing the task.  Until we do, I can't think of anything more irresponsible than denying the States the right to allow a pipeline to be built across their lands from Canada to Texas.

Mr. Obama, Americans need their broccoli.  It's more important than your reelection.

And, oh yes, jobs.  Here there's no cream pie up front.  You can't legislate jobs -- at least not jobs that are meaningful to our nation.  The only thing that can do that is a revitalized economy.  Help get the economy going again and you'll get jobs.  Jobs aren't in the frig.  They emerge as though by magic after  you've eaten your broccoli.