First week in the books!

In college sports, teams begin a season with a ranking based on the performance of the previous year, key returning players, coaching staff, conference, and opponents' corresponding data, all yielding a level expectations, reflected by this rank. Most of these categories depend on one thing: Booster support. The colleges with the biggest volume of donations boast the most dominant sports programs, all under the guise of the NCAA's loophole ridden system. Nonetheless, the rankings come out every year, and millions of fans-half of whom bet on at least their own team-watch multiple games a week, hoping for the glorious victory. When I was a student at the University of Arizona, the biggest fans were those that never even really knew that there were classes on the same campus as the stadium. These were the lower class, uneducated locals or transients who got behind a team cause you could get drunk, stoned and gamble while supporting the local college team. Students of course, often fall into this category as well. What, you may be asking, does this have to do with Barack Obama's first week in office? Well, the same people supporting those teams-those millions and millions of Americans, uneducated and scholarly, lower and high class, are all weighing in on the Administration Preseason ranking as a powerhouse team, who for this stretch will at least face the ol' skool opposition, the Republican Party.
The first week of business could be called "putting your money where your mouth is"
Most people are interested in the politics of the measure, when these are simply necessary business decisions aimed at preventing further disaster to our economic stability.

Of course, no-name Republicans, vying for position among the murky remnants of the party both uplifted and destroyed by the Bush family, and clamoring about Stimulus for banks-again-and that the infrastructure-designed after the New Deal model FDR struggled to passes, and then succeeded in getting us not only our of s depression, but to the World's most formidable economic, social, and military power. But after the Bush regime threw a trillion or two dollars at military and banking, we must assert that another option may be needed to drag us from the mat that such Republican Policies knocked us onto.
The obvious problem is that Neo-cons and regular Republicans, both born out of the Torrie British colonial ideology-which says be loyal to your party regardless of right and wrong- still play the same amateurish game of unilateral partisanship that will, if it continues by way of Democrats taking the bait(as they usually do), lead to further deprecation of America as a nation, as a culture, and as anywhere near what we should expect ourselves to be as a population.
Both the floundering neocon media pundits and their mid-level, post Cheneyism republican shrapnel in the Congress are all now making comparisons to the National Endowment for the Arts spending as if its' the same as supporting Communism. Please, don't Fuck with the NEA. Culture is very important, after Human Rights, safety, health, and job security. The cultural arts define a populations, its' history, its' contemporary beliefs, its diversity, etc. The free press hides behind it, than stabs it in the back when the ratings will benefit. These people are still simply descendants of generations of An American culture stooped in Betsy Ross, Abe Lincoln, and many histories that overlaid a foundation of nation building. They don't even want to investigate truth that the NEA is supposed to carry on the tradition, only to take the ignorant, redneck Jesse helms stance of the mi 1980's. Its a sad day when nothing changes, especially when everything had almost appeared to. See you next week