Speaking of interventions…
Writing by treason on Thursday, 28 of June , 2007 at 8:42 pm
It has become all too apparent that the U.S. Senate has been involved in some very self-destructive behavior. Several individuals have not been applying themselves to the jobs they were hired to do, and they have used valuable time to insult the very people who hired them. Some of us have learned that it’s rarely a good idea to badmouth the people who pay your salary.
And it’s also a poor idea to attack your coworkers just to make yourself look good. You know, those “younger guys who are huffing and puffing” – no doubt out of breath from working so hard at the jobs they were entrusted to do, while the rest simply abuse the privilege of their employment?
But we like the huffers and puffers. And we appreciate our fellow Americans who intervened in order to save not only some wayward senators, but who saved themselves and many others from some badly engineered legislation. It was a successful intervention and we should all be grateful. Encouraged. Inspired.
Can this same group of concerned citizens intervene once more to save the rest of the Republicans? Why, wouldn’t that be just grand for the old party? A key to successful intervention, however, is to get the afflicted party to commit to change. To accept that it is high time to get help. To agree to alter evil ways and improve their situation so that they can once again be positive contributors to society.
Can we count on our elected officials to make that sort of commitment? Will they accept our help to straighten up and fly right? Or is their addiction to power and self-importance just too strong to overcome?
If they’re not willing to help themselves, perhaps it’s time for us to withdraw our support and forget we know them. I was in the middle of forgetting my own senator. The one who probably should have retired a few years ago. The pork-bearer. But he has temporarily redeemed himself by declaring that the bill before him was “neither workable nor realistic” and had an “unintended effect” in his home state. My! So nice of him to consider us.
A reprieve. Amnistia, if you will. Uh… for now.
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