A Change is Gonna Come?

There has been a lot of news lately on how Indiana has become the epicenter of our chance to take back the House, and a lot of that attention is focused on how Joe is up on Chocola. What has bothered me is that all of these articles seem to always blame Chocola's problems on somebody else, take for example today's column from the South Bend Tribue:

Converging to threaten Chocola are some elements beyond his control, the angry winds whipped up by the Toll Road deal and daylight-saving time confusion. Gov. Mitch Daniels' high pressure system collided with a Washington low as shown by a dropping political barometer for President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress.

All of these articles seem to say the same thing, this isn't poor Chris' fault, its just happening to him.

Bull.

If Chris had taken care of his district this wouldn't be happening. If he had taken care of North Central Indiana on the transportation committee we wouldn't need to sell off the Toll Road to fund new highway spending. If he hadn't so blindly followed Bush he might have known to vote against going into Iraq when we hadn't finished the job in Afghanistan. If he meant what he says about being fiscally conservative, he wouldn't spend government funds franking mailings on government waste. And if he had the maturity to understand the causes of poverty he'd be fighting them, instead of saying incredibly stupid stuff like this. Hey Chris, one in three people living below the poverty line is a child, what choice did they make again?