[NorCoGOP]

I've often wondered if American citizens have pretty much reached the "crisised out" phase?

Think about the past ten years...

It's been "crisis after crisis"

...some legit (9/11 and the wars)...

...some fabricated (health care, spending bills, debt limit, the never-ending recession)...

I think most Americans are pretty much numb to any new "crisis" and I think part of the reason for their - not frustration - but FURY

...at Washington for never being able to do "business as usual" so their lives could just go on...

If government would DO the job they were elected instead of waiting until it becomes a "crisis" so they can make their headlines...

[NorCoGOP]

(pushed "post" too soon - sorry) - I also believe that thanks to DC's mismanagement, if not outright dereliction of duty, that most Americans have also tuned out DC to focus on their own local problems (jobs, gas prices, loss of investments) to really bother with any of the hot wind blowing out of DC.

Obama the great orator has become not even a distraction to most these days - I witnessed that last week with a speech while eating out - and NO ONE watched the whole thing...it was more of a "meh!" reaction (which I believe is a good thing for 2012).