My Gooness… how time flies….
Here we are in the middle of the week… and middle of the mess about the budget.
Just look at all those blue-bound budget books printed to no effect… Not a single volume of them will be enacted into law if the threats and promises of this the second half of Mr. O’s last term (Ooops….not supposed to say that – It’s bad form, and bad luck – they say!). But I could use the $$$ that have been wasted… I’m looking for some good cheap mulch.
In any case there was a BIG change in the House since Mrs. Pelosi is no longer in charge. So… I’m not going there. I’ll leave it to members of the MSM to repeat the call that she’s a sore loser. Not my style.
But I do hope the new guys on the Republican side of the Aisle will hold themselves in check (the old guys and gals too for that matter) and not get overblown as people in their position have in the past. That makes it terribly hard to get elected when you’re *already too full of yourself.* Better to take a big swig of personal humility and recall nobody likes a braggart – but humility goes a long way toward repairing relations.
Right now figuring how big the budget is going to be this year it will be best to remember the previous year Congress did not pass a budget *AT ALL*… so it’s hardly the end of the legislative world for it to be delayed or dog-eared by the time it gets to the President’s desk (where it will likely be veto’ed – if it gets through the Senate.) I rather think whatever gets passed will be just what’s in support of our troops… and the emergency type funds that can be crammed into a “CR” – continuing resolution.
By the end of this session … the veteran members will be so ticked-off they won’t want to come back… at least some of them won’t. The new ones will be encouraged to help even newer members join the House and the Senate… and bring back a modicum of order and some degree of respect for one another. We seem to have to let off steam like this every couple of decades. We don’t readily remember how bad it gets.
So my advice is to keep a simple diary – journal or whatever you want to call it – so you can hand it to your children and grandchildren to help them get a handle on how bad things get when we let our commonsense go out the window. The idea we can “boost” our economy out of the doldrums by piling up a huge interest-accumulating debt flied in the face of ‘walking on water’ – for all but the Lord – and making the Sun stand still (for all but Moses). We can circle back and revisit Daniel in the Lion’s Den or the crossing of the Red Sea and all that… what we get to is to understand how powerful God is – and so far beyond our reasoning to be able to make a thousand years seem as a day or vice versa.
Which brings me to another matter I think I’ll bring up later… not today. Just some encouragement… and I hope you’ll be around.
God bless you and your family as you keep ‘looking unto Him… the author and finisher of our FAITH.”
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack & Barbara
Delayed Audio Link
“JUST A MINUTE”
WHERE DID THESE NEW GUYS LEARN HOW TO PLAY TOUGH?
BB: JUST A MINUTE: – Mr. Jack – where’d these new congersmen done larned ta play tough?
MizP: They’s a standin’ up an hittin’ hard.
Jack: How’d you-all get so well informed?
BB: We jist bin a-listnin an heedin. Mr. Jack. Has you heered sumpin diffrunt?
Homer: Yeah we heers the stablishmint boys ain’t happy.
MizP: Everbody gits shook up when a new driver takes over.
BB: Yeah – sorta like teachin’ yer grandson ta drive a stick shift.
Homer: You got ta learn how to let out th’ clutch or you stalls out.
Jack: That’s a very good illustration Homer.
Homer: See the freshmen congersmen done promised ta cut a hunnert billion first year.
MizP: But part of th’ firs year done gone…
BB: So th leadership settled fer only $78 bilion.
MizP: An they was a congers woman from Wyomin said you don’t get no second chanct
to make a first impression.
Jack: What’s her name Miz Pearl?
MizP: She’s Miz Cynthia Lummis of Wyomin –
BB: So now how much they gonna cut out’n th’ budget comin’ up?
Jack: Well, the first five months of fiscal 2011 are past – you can’t unspend that money.
MizP: So what’s gonna be done?
Jack: The Freshman Representatives don’t want to go back on what they promised…
Homer: So they done convinced th’ rest of th’ Ree-publicans in the House to go ahead an
cut out the whole hunnert billion.
MizP: My, my tha’uts a tellin’ them.
Homer: Got to make the cuts bigger -- hit th’ target.
Jack: They asked the assistant minority leader Eric Cantor if he was worried about the cuts?
Homer: An he said “Not at all… The [new members] are our fiscal conscience."
MizP: Well Hoo-Ray fer him.
Jack: The Washington Post reported yesterday afternoon after the news conference, “The President punted.”
MizP: Whassat mean Mr. Beeelie?
BB: In football… it means you kick the ball when yo don’t have much of a chance to make a first down.
Jack: And right now we’ve got to punt our way out … till next Wednesday… I’m Jack Buttram (end)
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