"Disappointed" Defined

From the Oxford Dictionary:

disappointed |ˌdisəˈpointid| adjective (of a person) sad or displeased because someone or something has failed to fulfill one's hopes or expectations : I'm disappointed in you, Mary | thousands of disappointed customers were kept waiting. • (of hopes or expectations) prevented from being realized.

I don't ever remember being as disappointed in anything as I am from this Congress. {OK maybe prom, but that is a whole different kind of post.} Sitting at Lydia and Shawn's on election night I literally got tears in my eyes when they announced that control of the Congress had changed hands. I thought, "the nightmare is over." I was not naive enough to think that everything had changed. I knew they had two more years - but I thought they would finally have people watching over them.

I was naive enough to think that we would start actually forcing the administration to do things they didn't want to do. Even if the war didn't end, at least it would become clear to the American people that it was Bush's war - that the Democrats wanted us out. I thought wiretapping and the death of FISA law would be things of the past. That investigations of the White House, War Contractors and other abuses would might even lead to impeachment.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and the rest of the Democrats who vote for crappy things like the new Iran amendment and ridicules crap like the Move-on condemnation really don't care about the Iraqis and the American soldiers who are dying, being tortured, the mothers on both sides of the ocean who are terrified for the lives of their children because of this illegal, awful war. It is a damn shame.

Damn, I hate when my dad and my husband are both right and I am wrong.