FIRING UP THE FORGE OF CONSENSUS

Sitting here holding court in my seat at our local diner, I just have to ask, what's next?  It is the first day I have had in a couple of weeks to take a little time to ruminate over all that has transpired lately.   The faces here are all the same but others come and go.  I hear echoes of discontent bouncing around our morning coffee club.  Too many vague ideas for any one of them to stand out.   Then I take the time to listen to our Presidents weekly address and he points a finger at insurance companies. One idea starts to really race around in my mind. 

While the conservative right continues to stoke their bonfire of hate and ignorance it is up to us to feed President Obama's forge of consensus.  As the right blows and blows hot air and embers into the eyes of the misinformed We must continue to maintain our rational pressure at the bellows lest our ideals become too cool.    If We fail in this our President may hammer and hammer but the steel will become too cool to find a common ground, too brittle, and in the end fixed beyond all hope of forging the consensus that will keep from creating a slag heap of lost opportunities.  

M. Paul ;-) <3