We, the political bloggers, the opinionated Monday morning presidents and political wannabes who spend a good deal of our spare time wearing out our keyboards with our endless meanderings and rants and ridiculous vocabulary that would leave our peers in the real world pointing and laughing at us hysterically, are nothing more than a bunch of broken records. Well, scratched would be the more correct term, but I digress. And the further one leans to one side or the other the harder it is to get the needle into the next groove so the song can move on.

As I look back into the archived posts for the last few months here on Bakersfield.com, I am amazed at how little the arguments have changed over that time no matter the issue! The war, the economy, liars cheats, thieves, Anna Nicole, American Idol. To the left it's all a vast right wing conspiracy, to the right it's all another governmet controlled handout program. I am, of course, being facetious about the war and teh economy, but you get my point.

We seem to be as unoriginal in thought as the very people we expend so much energy decrying and/or supporting yet we never seem to tire of the fight or the cause. I could have just copied and pasted one reply to about ninety percent of of teh blogs and saved myself an incredible amount of time, anger and frustration, but I guess I sometimes like to argue as much as the next guy.

To be sure, there are those Bako bloggers who remain above the fray, talking only of whatever it is that interests them, and others like myself, who venture away from the political arena as life dictates or as I grow weary of the psychobabble, but most of the folks here just seem to like a good fight and that is good.

It is to know that not everyone is just lying down in frustration as both sides of "those in charge" fail to respond to anything other than tireless self promotion and party lines. As long as there is discourse and argument, America will be OK. It may take awhile and our ideals may not be represented now or in the immediate future, but eventually we will all get what we want, if only for a short time. That is the way of things in a democracy. We are so diverse and quirky that it will always be impossible to please everyone all the time, so I'm just holding out for MY time of perfect representation!

There is nothing quite as annoying as a broken recordor because it will not fix itself. It will not stop skipping or repeating on its own the way a car alarm wil stop if you just leave the car alone. No, we HAVE to get up and do something about it. We have to walk over to the turntable and correct the problem manually. We have to take action.

As to the analogy, we will push a representative into the right groove or we will replace them with a new album(to those born before 1990, those were big, round, black things that played music), or, in more modern terms, kick them to the curb as if we were ejecting a scratched CD, but rest assured, we WILL do something when we tire of the annoyance.

So I say to my fellow bloggers, right, left or in the middle..Keep it up! Headway is being made out there in the political arena because of what we have to say and it will come around to my/your way of looking at things at some point. America is listening and they are reading, our representatives had better start doing the same!