Understanding DC

Much of the 'spare' time that we generally have has this week been spent meeting in groups for our internship class presentation. We've met every night and spent hours researching and discussing our topic and how to present it, or trying to do all that is more like it.

Here's the problem. Each of the 6 members of our group are apart of an incredible program that attracts some of the greatest college-aged thinkers and do-ers in America. Each person is ambitious, intelligent, highly opinionated, is a leader, and has lots of experience. (Haha and then there's me! Hehe I don't know how I got accepted into this club!!) But anyways.. you place them all in one group and tell them to create one idea. You come out with 6 ideas. You come out with 6 ideas and no one is willing to budge. Hours pass by and you realize that you haven't accomplished anything. Gosh this sounds awfully familiar.. where have I heard about his happening before.. oh wait!! We're in DC!!

No wonder all of our elected leaders have such a difficult time trying to get anything done!! You take our 'group project' situation and blow it up a billion times and that's congress!! You take a handful of each state's top picks, tell them to stand up for the citizens of their district/state and their beliefs and interests, put them into teams with team colors and team captains, and then throw them into a massive room with hundreds of other top-notch minds and leaders with the same resolve to their constituents who are on the opposing side and then try and come to a single conclusion with which everyone is happy and benefits thereby. Oh and let's not forget the cameras.. it's being televised too! It's a miracle anything gets done.

I hate to say it but from my experience here in DC so far the 'bright minds of the future' are an awful lot alike the ones of today.. but hey at least it'll provide for plenty of entertainment in years to come for America's most popular professional most-of-the-time-non-contact sport: Politics. Oh gosh that's an idea.. politics with full-body contact!! Oh man!! I think I just qualified the reasoning in my being here with these stubborn smarty-pants!! Gotta take advantage of those entrepreneurial opportunities! Innovation baby!! 

K gotta go write a bill about all this now.. 'i'm just a bill, yes i'm only a bill, and im sittin here on capitol hill..'