I VOTED FOR HER JUST AFTER I VOTED AGAINST HER - Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 101117

            Grrrrowth… that’s what we’re after – Grrrrooowth!

 

            And we’ll see if we get it as Congress (known as  the ‘lame duck session) wrestles mighty issues to the ground – only to find they’ve often turned to jelly in the waiting – and now either everybody wants to get everything done – or somebodies want nothing to be done – or a select group of people want some things done and others left undone…. You can’t tell the players without a scorecard.

 

            I guessed that most people would be so glad the election is over they would show little interest in what’s going on under the Capitol Dome… -- There was plenty going on just not many people there – and the ones that were there were thinking in such a confused fashion two reporters interviewing them 5 minutes apart would have written two different stories.

 

            So now speculation goes this way and that.  Madam Speaker of the House, everyone thought would step down after such a ‘shellacking’ as Prez Obama phrased it.  But no, either she’s glued to it – or thinks she is – or she’s going to hang on for dear life proving that she *really* is the queen of the House of Rep… and nobody better challenge that!  Especially if they plan to live more than a week.

 

            Meantime, Charlie Rangel hires and fires his attorneys, in order that his trial may either be delayed or (he hopes) dismissed because there’s too much other stuff to be doing. Peter King – Republican counterpart of Rangel, from Suffolk County, NY seemed to want to defend Rangel saying there was no malicious intent.  I wonder how many plain, hardworking people from middle America could get by with such a defense in not paying their taxes.

 

            For me, members of Congress like Rangel and Spratt and, and yes, Thurmond (now no longer in jeopardy of being thrown out of Congress) are examples of being in power too long. I write that not without sympathy… but also with a clear-eyed recognition that people have a certain almost double certain, propensity to fool *themselves* about their value to the public good. In general they continue to hold office out of inertia, sometimes out of corruption and doing the wrong thing.  Mayor Koch said it well that sometimes public officials lose sight of their own poor performance capability and stay on the stage too long.  “Term limits – where are you when we *need* you!”

 

            Time for a nap… we’ll all be needing it before Thanksgiving.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

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“JUST A MINUTE”

I VOTED AGAINST HER JUST AFTER I VOTED FOR HER …

 

Homer: JUST A MINUTE: – Mr. Jack – Kin you figger out *why* Mrs. Pelosi wants ta be…

MizP: … Th’ Minority leader… why is tha-ut? She don’t cotton ta bein’ second chair?

BB: That’s whut Ah thank too Miz Pearl.

Jack: You don’t understand folks – it’s a question of power.

MizP: Powuh Mr. Jack… she’s a havin’ ta take backseat to Mr. Bayner…

Homer: At’s rite.

Jack: Two things, Homer – she thinks being Minority leader is just a temporary job.

MizP: She thanks she’s a-gonna be back in th’ saddle agin…?

Jack: Not only that she believes it’ll happen in 2012 – next go ‘round.

MizP: Whut do you thank?

Jack: The Republicans in ‘94 did lose seats to the Democrats after their big win…

MizP: But hit wasn’t a big turn aroun’ wuz hit…

BB: Naw – But it did start a slide back to th’ other side.

Homer: Well whut about Mr. Shuler… th former quarterback –he’s a-challengin’ her.

BB: You know, a-tryin’ ta be anuther Minority leader ain’t jist tiddledee winks.

Jack: That’s why Madam Pelosi wants to hold on… you get to appoint people to jobs and

MizP: An do favors…

Homer: An sneak in your own earmarks when it’s late in th’ nite.

MizP: Has Mrs. Murkoskiwowski won yet?

Jack: Last time I checked she was about two thousand votes ahead.

BB: She said she a-doin’ whut Strong Thumond did.

Jack: That’s not correct.  Senator Thurmond promised when he set out on his write-in campaign that

            if he won he’d resign in two years and go the regular procedures of voting – and he did.

MizP: Did he give up seniority?

Jack: He did indeed – which is more than Mrs. Murkowski promises.

Homer: Ah-m a gittin’ tarrd of people sayin’ one thang and doin’ another.

Jack: Character shows too when we start on time and end on time.

MizP: Tha-ut means hit mus be time.

Jack: Exactly Miz Pearlie…  see you next Wednesday. I’m Jack Buttram.  

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