What a Waste Edition: Network and Cable filled with Representatives and Senators Now, Gorilla Chest-Flashing Some More.
Jul 31st, 2011 | 6 responses
The Bus is hanging over the edge of the ravine. The Bus is crammed with human beings. The driver behind the wheel, steps away from the crisis, leaving others hanging…
At the moment, on cable and network tv, many reps and senators are hedging now about how they will vote on the agreement just announced to not default et al. They are right now, to a person, saying, “I havent read the legislation…” but “I’m not going to vote for it if it doesnt have x or y.” Blah, blah and more blah. Amazing display.
Do get the heck off tv and go read the agreement for heaven’s sake. We’re on a bus hanging over the edge of the Rio Grande Gorge and you go on TV to rip off your shirt, show your flabby, trim, fit, impossibly beyond the beyond out of shape “muscles” … and for what reason?? Remind us.
Get the people to safety instead of gunning the motor like some teenage showoff and eroding more of the frail ground under the last three wheels of the bus still on semi solid ground.
If the idea is to try to look fake-heroic, by rushing in at the last minute, throwing up your hands and saying I Tried SO Hard and Look What “they” (other side, whichever side doesnt matter) did… if that’s your game given you have all the limelight and cant pass up a chance to play to all the cameras…. just give us all reprieve. Get the bus off the cliff. Get in and drive. Or else, get off the bus and be replaced by others more able. Either way, that would be the most authentically heroic.
6 Responses to “What a Waste Edition: Network and Cable filled with Representatives and Senators Now, Gorilla Chest-Flashing Some More.”
Not heroic at all doing their job, Dr. E., because it’s their job, i.e., it’s expected.
“Or else, get off the bus and be replaced by others more able.”
This is exactly what should happen in the wake of this debacle ( think 2012). Nothing heroic occurred afterall. The blackmailers won. Again.
There is no “heroics” in this mess.
It’s now an argument of how much to cut our nation’s elderly out of the very basics they need to survive. Nobody, not one person, here, or, in any of the congressional debates, mentions anything on just what the heck the elderly are going to do. What will they do?
Heck I would venture to say that a large number of them don’t even know what is happening. This is a really low point that will be recorded in history for what it is…greed wins. I truly cannot believe that it is happening.
Spence: After the Dems in 2009-2010 and the GOP in 2011 so far, it’ll never happen but I suspect many want “None of the Above” for 2012.
DLS, I think when average, hardworking Americans eventually, finally realize how much they are being taken to the cleaners, the sh!t will hit the fan, and I don’t see the TP nor the R’s coming out well in that scenario. Allen is right, greed wins. This is not a proud moment for our country by any stretch.
No, Spence, they’re not going to come out well. Remember what I’ve said about watching the Republicans closely — for two things, not only one. First of course is watching the social (and religious) conservatives. (The fiscal conservatives have for years been out of the picture or relegated to much-lower-class status.) The second is to see how they continue to act in the interest of the (big) business community, and if it’s “refined” or if it’s “coarsened” and blatantly in favor of acting in business’s favor, rationalized if need by by saying they’re “improving the business climate” (exploiting the real need for reform) or “doing what’s needed to increase jobs here,” more of a kind of exploitation of what real, but doesn’t necessarily imply doing what they’re doing.
Also, as I’ve said before, pay close attention to the happenings in the states (as with Walker in Wisconsin, Kasich in Ohio, and Scott in Florida; Brewer in Arizona really isn’t a big deal, just more so than Palin in Alaska, whom most never heard of until 2008), not just the House Republicans.
The Dems of course are far from blameless and need to reform, too, but your subject was Republicans. Yes, they need to reform.