So it’s Sunday morning and I slept really good last night so I was up plenty early. Have to feed Cuppy & Snowy at 7:30am anyway. I’ve been up since about a quarter to six and reading.

I read a piece in the LA Times about Brown’s win in MA and how it is affecting politicians running for office in CA. Basically it said that Brown’s win was due at least in part to people being fed up with Washington as it is.

Then I went on to read the NY Times opinion page online. I was totally blown away by Frank Rich’s piece. From my brain to his talented typing fingers. If I could state concisely and eloquently what I think it would be today’s column.

Moving on to Friedman’s column I thought he made great points as well.

I was in Barnes and Noble last night and I saw that the cover of Newsweek read Why Haiti Matters by Barrack Obama. I saw it and thought the sky is falling and he has time to write a cover story? Now of course my brain knows that one of his writers wrote it and he signed off on it, but it got me thinking. I’m tired of hearing about what President Obama wants to do and how he’s going to do it and who is keeping him from doing it.

I watched the Ohio Town Hall meeting the other day and I was struck by how annoyed I was watching President Obama on TV swearing he’d fight for us. I thought to myself, “Well then do it! Don’t stand here telling me.” I’ve heard and read conservatives saying they wonder when Obama is going to stop campaigning. Watching the Town Hall I had to wonder if they aren’t on to something.

One of the cover stories in this week’s New Yorker magazine is titled Mr. President! With non-stop broadcasting, blogging, and tweeting, is White House coverage becoming trivial – or – just too hard to control. I bought it but haven’t read it yet. From skimming it seems to focus more on how the media covers the White House than the White House itself but this too got me to thinking.

It seems like so much of politics is politicians (those already in office and those who are campaigning) talking about what they’re going to do but not actually doing much of anything. It seems that not much changes no matter who you gets voted in to office. Not that this is a new development or that it comes as a surprise to anyone but the politicians are so worried about pissing off special interest groups and big business that they do very little governing or legislating for their actual constituents — us.

Maybe it’s been too easy to be a politician for too long. I think maybe we need to hold their feet to the fire. Call your congressman, mayor or assemblyman, write letters to the editor. Let them know that we will no longer play second fiddle to corporate and special interests. Remind them that they can and will be voted out.

I saw someone (I’m sorry I don’t remember who) say on Twitter that we should vote all the incumbents out in the next elections. Maybe that’s what it will take to make real change we can believe in. Showing those who’ve sat in cushy offices doing lousy jobs the door.