John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyle

I Have a question.
I have a question for the readers out there. Have any of you parents ever peeked in a kindergarten classroom while the teacher steps into the hallway to talk to you about little Johnny throwing poop during bathroom time? I'm not saying that anyone's little darling would do such a vile act. I'm just saying that five year olds can quickly loose focus of the big picture and important matters if they are not constantly supervised. Johnny's poop dilemma being one example and what is quickly escalating in the Kindergarten class room un be known to the teacher being another.

In The Classroom
Let's take a quick look inside Johnny's Kindergarten class and see exactly what I am talking about. Shall we? Yes we shall! At first glance all is calm. All the children ranging in age from late 4 year olds to early 6 year olds are sitting quietly with their hands folded on their respective desks as Ms. Carmichael had instructed them to do. All is quiet that is until one of Ms. Carmichaels charges starts to get restless. The little tike begins to do some unmemorable repetitive act to distract himself from his utter boredom. In and of itself not a bad thing to do if one must pass the time for an undetermined amount of time. Religious worshipers of various religious orders practice this in the form of chanting or counting beads or repetitive body gestures and nobody faults them for being unruly.

Escalation
But we must remember that we are talking about youngsters here, with little control or discipline and it so has it that the repetitive yet unmemorable gesture of that one little boy or girl becomes the nails scratching on the black board to another and an argument quickly develops. This would remain an isolated incident had the two children remained the only participants in the verbal exchange but what was an argument of two quickly becomes a melee of many as two becomes three and three become four. You see the argument of the two offended the sensibilities of a third who tried to voice her displeasure only to unintentionally aggravate the situation. This process becomes exponentially repetitive and results in the madhouse that Ms. Carmichaels class had inevitably become in the 3 minutes she had her head turned away while talking to you the parent of little Johnny the bathroom time poop throwing boy!

Class Politics
You must understand dear reader that I am by no means pointing fingers at any of our little rambunctious participants in this unsupervised, un-orchestrated and unintentional exercise in Kindergarten classroom exercise of civil unrest. It is my intention to highlight the not so obvious if not subtle delineations in classroom partisanship, because despite what we might, as parents want to believe, Children do quickly break up into groups and subgroups that reflect values and ideas that they might not yet even begin to understand let alone believe that they espouse them. Break down the involved parties into groups and you will notice some of these: Loners, Aggressors, Mediators, Instigators, Opportunists. Yes dear reader these group characteristics reveal them selves even at the early age of five.

Grownup Comparisons
Now we all know that we can't blame our tykes for their problems without bearing some of the blame ourselves. Because after all they did come from us. As a matter of fact some parents will celebrate their little ones disruptive behavior because those parents have identified their baby's behavior as characteristic of their own yet not characteristic of antisocial behavior. But that is not you or I. Is it? Yes, dear reader if we look at our little ones we will see in their immature and inexperienced enthusiasm, to do as mommy or daddy would do, the unsheltered image of what you and I have become so expert at being subtle at. In short our little ones are us.

Conclusion
Congress seems a hodgepodge of rich spoiled politicians out to get their own but if we look closer we can see a reflection of the childish wonder that was Ms. Carmichael's class and if we look even closer we can see a reflection of ourselves. Is it all or nothing as we and our children argue or is their a middle road? We can partisanship ourselves till we turn blue in the face but this will not help the cause or causes at hand. Remember that healthcare is just one issue that affects Americans that our president has to tackle. Remember that there are still more to deal with and if healthcare reform is any indication of future legislative processes than I see little hope for change in our generation or even our children's for that matter.

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