Sorry, guys. Turns out that it isn't an adventure. It really is just a job.

I was reading an article about immigration reform, and part of it was how the work had stalled because one senator had walked out due to his energy bill getting tabled. What? Really? How many jobs have you had where you’ve been assigned to a committee or project and then been able to just walk away because you didn’t like how it was going? Me, if I get assigned to project hell, I’m in for the duration. Never ending meetings, crazy ass decisions, killer deadlines and all. To the bitter end. But apparently, senators only work on things that ring their bells. And they can say, “Meh, not feeling it” and walk away. No wonder they can’t get anything done. What a bunch of prima donnas.

And my guess would be, they only “feel it” when it gets to be a big deal. Something where the media shows up. In the Myers-Briggs personality assessment, there’s a type called the “crisis manager”. These are the people you turn to when things go bad, because they’re calm and decisive under fire. While everybody else is losing their heads, these people are at the head of the pack, leading the way out of the burning building. Which is fantastic. Unfortunately, if you let them run the show, they’ll continually let things get to be a crisis, so that they’ll have a continuous string of hero moments. They’ll set the fire, just so that they can put it out. Bet you ten bucks that I know what about 2/3 of the congress’s Myers-Briggs types would be?

Why do we need healthcare, immigration, financial and national security reform? Because of all those years we limped along with a broken system, it wasn’t a big deal, it wasn’t critical, no cameras, no attention, no crisis. We’d rather pay our leaders to fix a problem than to keep problems from happening.

Here’s what I’d like to see: Someone walks into the houses of congress and says, “You 20 boneheads come here. You’re on immigration reform. Go in that room. Sit your asses down. And don’t come out until you have a plan. And the rest of you knot-heads don’t wander off. I have jobs for you too.” And if you get assigned something that’s not sexy, like farm bills or highway infrastructure, too freaking bad. Maybe we’d have those things fixed before they became sexy. Like before there’s wide spread famine or every bridge in America collapses. There’s a novel idea.