AH HEAH TH' FEETS A-MARCHIN' - Just A Minute Radio for Sept. 16, 2009

            Howdy everybody –

 

            All the folks over at Playfair are stirring and still talking about the TAXPAYER’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON that seemed to set new records last Saturday when all the busses rolled into the Washington vicinity and the streets leading up to the Capitol building as well as the west lawn and part of the Mall were overrun with a colorful and apparently well-mannered and courteous crowd if the Wall Street Journal and even the New York Times are to be believed.

 

            Of course there was the occasional bully or over-zealous demonstrator. They’ve been present even in the peace marches. But I was pleased to see and read the accounts that it was for the most part a motivated and well-mannered, excited crowd that were so crowded into the available space some were left standing on Constitution Ave. unable to get close enough to see the speaker’s platform.  Most everyone seemed to be having a good time – except Congress… and for the most part they did not make themselves known – except for those who spoke. They were cheered – not jeered. And the crowd was by most accounts good humored – and we weather was good. Praise the Lord.

 

            Will it have the desired effect?  Probably that depends on how high your hopes are.  I think it goes beyond question – at least if the polls are to be believed – the nation is pretty evenly divided – but this crowd was not. They had spent their own money coming from all 50 states by most of the news accounts – and the common theme seemed to be to ‘take back the government’ – Exactly from whom they were taking it was not crystal clear – but still that was the common thread.  One Dow Jones Saturday Journal writer said it’s a populist river that disappears and reappears from time to time. He said the last major appearance was with Ross Perot… who got about 19% of the vote when George H.W. Bush was running.

 

            Interesting… I had not thought of it in that way – but clearly *something* was afoot… and it did not appear to be sympathetic to the themes sounded often by the ACLU or the Democrat party. Still there was little in the way of observable animosity – and in the stories I read and saw the correspondents went out of their way to say the crowd was older, polite, good humored. That’s pleasing.

 

            Now that Congress in back in as “full swing” as it ever gets – the sandpapering and nastiness returns. But I think a lot of Congresspersons are caught looking over their shoulders to see what’s catching up with them.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack Buttram

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

AH HEAH TH’ FEETS A-MARCHIN’

MizP: Just a Minit – What did you thank ‘bout th’ Saturday march, Mr. Jack?

Jack: To me it looked like a big crowd, Miz Pearl – what about the guys at Earl ‘n’ Lester’s?

BB: At th’ Bait Shop and Sushi Bar?

Jack: I mean about th’ march – Rush says two million…?

 HOMER: Hit shore was a passle of folks.

MizP: Down South – we knows a ‘passle’ means BIG!

JACK: Did you see a favorite sign?

MizP: Ah was innerested in th’ pe-pul. If this’n was a revolution Ah thank hit’s th’ first

               revolution lead by ree-tirees…

Homer: Ah liked th’ sign that said – We IS th’ MOB. So stan back.

BB: Ah liked th’ one tha-ut said – “We done come peaceful” – This time.

Jack: It looked more like a BIG county fair to me – like people were having a good time.

BB: Hit  deepens on how hard-headed they are ‘bout these taxes an all.

MizP: Yew thank hit’ll pass, Mr. Jack?

Jack: This is the first major hurdle for the President. He  can’t afford to just lose.

Homer: You thank he’ll compermize?

BB: Ah thank he’ll do sumpin like tha-ut an cawl hit a victry. Course we’uns gits ta' pay th’ bill.

MizP: No – the chirren, an gran-chirren, an grate, grate gran-chirren git ta' pay.

BB: Do you know how much a trillion is?

MizP: Hit’s a lot – Ah know.

Homer: My cousin Simon says if’n you started spendin’ money at a hunnert-thousan a minute – frum th’ time Christ was born up ta' now you’d jist now be approachin’ a trillion.

BB: At’s rite… Ah ain’t figgered hit out mysef…  but I reckon sumbody’s gonna haffta pay fer hit.

Homer: Don’t know if’n you er me’ll be a-round ta' do hit.

MizP: I reckon Mr. ‘bama ain’t goin’ ta' be a-roun neither if’n hit takes tha-ut long.

Jack: Speaking of time… I reckon time’s about up for this week. We’d better just wrap it up with a prayer for our Nation that the Lord will bring us thru.

MizP: Oh He will, Mr. Jack – Ah know He will.

Jack: OK Miz Pearl, Homer, Billy-bob – see you all next week. I’m Jack Buttram.

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