NOW WHAT DO WE DO? WE CAMPAIGN! - Just A Minute Radio for Monday 09-29-08

            Glad you’re with us on Monday…

 

            Things get so ‘bolixed’ up when enough members of Congress get in a swivit… it’s hard to get settled down again. Let’s hope Campaign 2008 gets down to running the race rather than running around like Chicken Little.

 

            Having the credit channels seize-up is rather like getting a call from the bank that your last 15 checks have bounced. But it happens… and while it gives you that sinking feeling for a while eventually all that gets straightened out if you haven’t been kiting checks – but just not paying attention. Paying the penalty tends to put a price on NOT paying attention – at least in my experience.

 

            So … we’ve got problems to solve… let’s get with the program – buckle down and quit trying to paper over the difficulties. Nothing’s solved by ignoring the problem when it really exists. What I think *most* people resist is the good-old-boy network that exists in every state capitol I’ve ever looked into – and in Washington it’s epidemic. Everybody isn’t corrupt and taking money under the table – but it seems there are more people than ever *trying* to do the corrupting. In my experience in Washington – which ended back in the 70’s – I only ran into one client who genuinely thought my firm could pave the way for what he was seeking (which was a post office contract) if he could just say the magic words and shift the money under the table. When a couple of thought to be “well connected” attorneys offered to see that my Senator boss from McCain’s home state wouldn’t have opposition in his next re-election campaign if he would just favor some overseas regulation they wanted, he stood up and escorted them to the door while I watched his neck turn beet red with anger. They were lucky to get out without a thrashing.

               Well, this too shall pass away – and I think in a way it’s good for the Republic. It points up the problems – and the folks who can solve it are NOT in Washington. They live next door to you and me… or at least in the same county. Alexis De Tocqueville – who along with Beaumont wrote about Democracy in America, found a deep respect for the law. The reason, he felt, was American citizens themselves held the ultimate power to change any laws they disliked. He knew America was by no means perfect – but its people held what he saw was the key to the future. Let us make sure we prize and guard those freedoms of ours.

            Cordially, IN HIM

            Jack Buttram

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OK – NOW WHAT DO WE DO? WE CAMPAIGN!

Just A Minute – Sometime today – it’s Monday by my calendar -- Congress will make a run for home by dark, to accommodate the Jewish members whose holiday, Rosh Hashanah, begins at sundown – and the dust of the past two weeks will start to settle.

For all the panic-stricken TV talking-heads repeating breathless announcements that if something isn’t passed the world will turn to split pea soup … the markets have held up well – and we hear the muted calls of “Chicken Little” saying the sky is falling covered by the sounds of shofar.

All that to say no doubt there are problems that need solving (there always are) but reports of the demise of the Republic are a bit premature. It’s time to take a deep breath and settle down – work a crossword puzzle or a Sudoku. The world will turn – November’s Election Day will arrive on time and unless the Lord returns the sun will arise in the east again on November fifth. I’ve got more things that need attending to than staying glued to the TV screen. Tune in tomorrow we’ll all know more then.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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