Hello again…
Great weather, great to have you with us again – not so great in the forecast.
President Obama seems to have commanded his troops in the House and Senate to make bricks without straw – and the rebels are to various degrees, disagreeing.
Of course, in the world of politics people don’t always want to be taken literally, or have their words read back to them – especially on TV and in front of their mentors – but it happens occasionally – more frequently if you have 30 Czars to keep track of, not to mention a passle* of Cabinet Secretaries newly infused with a sense of their own importance.
But fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your viewpoint, reality strikes and the balloons deflate and come drifting back down to where the rest of us live. That’s sort of what’s taking place now – except the deflation hasn’t hit the topmost ranks as yet. There are still ‘citizens of the world’ floating around out there who have escaped the confines of Foggy Bottom or the UN General Assembly and fly around on their own cushion of warm and puffy air. Meanwhile, it’s left up to the grunts – the working people of the world to pick up the pieces, repair the wheels of state and start things working again. One just hopes there’s no train wreck happening that can’t be repaired reasonably soon.
President Reagan said there was no limit to what could be done if people don’t care who gets the credit. The obverse of that is nothing gets done when everybody wants to take the credit – or at least not get blamed for the failures.
Jimmy Carter took almost three years to get his administration into a place of ‘gridlock’ which he dubbed ‘malaise’ – The current holder of the Oval Office has managed to achieve that kind of total tangle in record-breaking time. The Chinese representatives walked out of the last G-8 meeting on Global Warming when they were asked to pledge themselves to cleaning up the atmosphere. Now our State Department espouses the position of
Well, about the most hopeful thing I can manage at this juncture is – we are at the middle of the week – in almost the exact middle of the summer and maybe we’ll turn the corner before too long. It’s long overdue.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
*-- Passel is an ole-southern-boy measurement that means an unquantifiable measurement of a ‘bunch’ of something. Southern political legislators and speechmakers have found it to be an extremely useful word when you’re needing to be imprecise.
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“JUST A MINUTE”
THE BLUE DOGS ARE A-GROWLIN’…
BB: JIST A MINITE – Th’ blue dog’s is a- growlin’ Mr. Jack.
JACK: I don’t understand, Billy-Bob.
MizP: Whut he’s a-sayin’ Mr. J is old time conservative Demicrats in th’ South…
HOMER: Awl over th’ place… Miz Pearl…
BB: There’s growlin’ – mebbe howlin’—
JACK: I still don’t get it.
BB: Hit started Sunday when David Gregory on Meet Th’ Press lit a match wif Seketery Seebelius.
JACK: I didn’t see that.
HOMER: Gregory’s th’ one a-tryin’ ta' ack like he’s Danny Rathbone.
MizP: You mean Dan Rather, Homer.
HOMER: Well yeah… he ast Miz Seebelius, Seketry of Health & Humanity, how’s
everbody’s health costs comin’ down when she’s addin’ a Trillion to hit?
JACK: I’d say that’s a worthwhile question.
MizP: She din’t thank hit was so hot.
BB: Naw -- she thot hit was too hot… to handle…
HOMER: Bes’ she cud say is hit’s a “Work In Progress.”
BB: An Gregory comes back wif: “Presdint says pass hit now no matter what…” Is that cammiflage er
blowin’ smoke?
MizP: Hit’s what’s a-makin’ th’ blue dogs howl.
JACK: Just what is a blue dog?
BB: Goes back to th’ ole sayin’ “I’d vote fer a yeller dog if’n he was a Demmicrat.”
HOMER: So th’ ol time carnservitive started a-callin’ them sefs th’ “Blue Dog’s” …
JACK: To distinguish themselves from the Yellow Dogs …?
MizP: You’re a-ketchin on, Mr. Jack.
JACK: It takes a while… So what’s next?
BB: Firs Congers has worked up a sweat so they’s gotta take some time off.
MizP: Like they don’t git enuf already.
HOMER: They’s a possibility of enuff ‘no’ votes in the Senate…
MizP: Yeah, if’n they-uh back bones don’t wilt…
BB: Like Miz Pearl says – mebbe they’s enuf ta' jine in wif Seneter DeMint an' put on th’ brakes.
HOMER: Ah shore hope so.
JACK: So you think there’s a possibility we can come out of this alive…
BB: Yeah… but jist barely…
JACK: Well, let’s hope …
MizP: Ah say let’s PRAY!
JACK: AMEN to that… oops… time’s up <> I’m Jack Buttram (END)
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