Why
bother? Wouldn’t the country be better off if lawmakers stayed in bed too?
Capitol
Hill’s Sleeping Beauty, Michele Bachmann, arises from a two-year stupor to
proclaim, "This isn't load limits on turnip trucks that we're talking
about. This is...a consequential bill that will impact every American, and
that's why you have such passionate opinions. And we're not giving up and we're
not caving in that easily."
Unwittingly
as always, the former GOP Presidential frontrunner puts her finger on the Tea Party
problem. Don’t like a law Congress passed? Filibuster its implementation two
years later. Feel oppressed by the White House, Supreme Court, Senate and your
own House? Defund everything.
If
all else fails, what next? Just wait for the debt-limit debate and start all over
again. As Mike Nichols and Elaine May used to say about pretentious poseurs in
their act, “It’s really a moral
problem, and they’re so much more interesting than real problems.”
Even
Nancy Pelosi may be getting tired of the charade, missing one key vote to
celebrate her fiftieth wedding anniversary. Why not? They will still be
stalling when she gets back.
Meanwhile,
real problems will have to wait. All this is a moral dilemma, and politicians can’t be bothered by trivia.
Wake
me when it’s over. If they haven’t settled it by then, there will be the World
Series to watch. Those games always start on time.
Bravo. Well said.
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