Electile Dysfunction.
Used in a sentence I stole from someone who recently posted it as a status update on Facebook: "Electile Dysfunction is the inability to be aroused over any of the choices for President put forth by either major party for the 2012 election."
And then, in an attempt to try to research the chuckle-inducing phrase that so perfectly encapsulates the election-fatigue I'm feeling some 400 days before the next day of voting (my DVR now seems to be finding Republican debates once a week!), it looks like the phrase has been around long enough to be the title of an indie flick promoting election reform, and a 2006 political cartoon that took advantage of the distinct geographic shape of Florida as connected to this phrase.
Regardless of where it came from or who should get official credit for coming up with that turn of phrase, it's getting a little hard to hear that 9-9-9 is now the mark of the beast, or that the VP courtin' of Christie has begun, or that everything will die in gridlock for the next 13 months of "leadership" from any branch of our great nation.
How's about a little progress? How's about a little consensus? How's about a little leadership that speaks to our similarities instead of never getting off the ground while we divisively deal with our differences? I'm ready to get out of this Great Recession already ... anyone willing to join me?
FLORIDA SAYS "I'm NOT NAUGHTY, I'm JUST DRAWN THAT WAY":
http://thebigpicturereport.com/2011/08/14/electile-dysfunction/
DON'T LET THE MACHINE REPLACE YOUR VOTE (and other election reform mantras):
http://www.electile-dysfunction.com/about.htm
THE ANSWER, SAYS ONE CARTOONIST, IS VOTAGRA!:
http://www.naturalnews.com/020940.html
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