Moderate and Uninformed: Take Stock In Schoolhouse Rock

I'm not in the Tea Party or Green Peace... What is the Tea Party anyway?

Most Americans are neither foaming at the mouth conservatives or hippy liberals. Most Americans have never read a bill passed by Congress or know the name of anyone who works in the West Wing. The vast majority of US citizens are politically moderate and modestly to completely uninformed. The average person, if he/she cares at all about politics, consumes news sound-bites; Yahoo articles, SNL skits and the occasional news broadcast. (This excludes those over 50. They watch a lot of news apparently.) We are a few of those average, moderate, uninformed Americans. We, as contributers to this blog, are completely confused by most of what goes on in Washington and we have a feeling we're not alone.

This blog will document our uniformed, self-proclaimed moderate (what is moderate anyway?) opinions toward the happenings in Washington and around the world. When addressing partisan issues, we will keep score between Dems and the GOP based on who we think makes the most sense. Being uninformed, however, our opinions should in no way sway anyone's opinion. We are not attempting to convince anyone of anything. We simply want our uninformed opinions to serve as a snapshot of the average American's sentiments toward world and national events. Hopefully we can relate to other moderate uninformed people out there and create some kind of normal discussion about what's going on in America.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Take Stock In Schoolhouse Rock

Was I the only one confused about the odd path the health care bill took during its legislative life? I swear the house voted on it eight times. It seems so much less complicated when it's shown in a cartoon.