Boys that ‘heat-index’ is rite up there against the ceilin’ – and we can tell it! All day long!
And things don’t seem to be coolin’ off over under the Capitol Dome. Each side keeps being polite on the outside – but seem to be distrustful… or looking over their shoulders all the time they are in each other’s presence. Pretty hard to reach a compromise when the arrows fly thick and fast.
What becomes apparent is seeds planted last year *before* the elections in November… have sprouted and grown into full-fledged weeds now. The Freshmen congress people – and the more experienced folks also – are still smarting under the skin about the callous way the several thousand page “Obama-Care” bill was presented…. Or more accurately ‘dumped’ in the laps of the Congress people and they were told to start chewin’ and swallerin’ – and that bitter fruit has come to maturity this summer.
The price was set last year and the bill is coming due this year. Meantime a second round of ‘you bash me and I’ll bash you back’ is being played out in the House of Representatives this year. The Freshmen and women didn’t like it – and so they’re doing no favors, indeed paying back in kind. It takes a couple of years – sort of like training a spirited horse who is the rider and who is the horse – to get over that kind of treatment. Some of the older and wiser heads in the Senate don’t want to continue in that vein and make things worse.
What’s complicating things is the President has never been through this kind of cycle – when his team is/was in the driver’s seat – and he tends to be either disengaged, or not fully realizing how the game is played steps up to the plate swinging hard and strikes out. Well… that’s as close a sports analogy as I can come to describing the ‘tangle’ that’s on Capitol Hill at present.
What is difficult for both sides to make apparent to their troops is: handing back the ‘come-uppance’ which the Obama-Care campaign earned with their ‘we’ve got the votes’ attitude last year – is like a dark and growing cloud overhanging *this year’s* legislative weather. If you engage in excesses – you may as well expect to have some ‘payback coming’ and I think this is the point where the ball bounces back. The Democrats were heavy-handed in the last Congress… now the payback comes. What the freshmen don’t realize is they can well be digging their own foxhole and baiting the battle that’s going to be played out now between 2011 and 2012. It’s not a beautiful landscape – and to mix metaphors – there’s an inexperienced driver at the wheel.
Well… that’s about enough for today. We’ll see this played out in the present conflicts … and I expect in the days to come. All the blood hasn’t been shed yet.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
“JUST A MINUTE”
AIR WE MEKING PROGRESS,ER JIST TREADIN’ WATER?
MizP: Just a Minute: Mr. Jack – no bones about hit… Ah’m cornfused.
Jack: Confused about what Miz Pearlie?
MizP: Ah jist cain’t keep up wif all this jimmer-jammin ‘bout the cornclusion.
BB: She’s rite Mr. Jack. You listen to th radio er th’ TV an hits hard ta foller.
Homer: Whut in th’ worl are they a-doin’ Mr. Jack. How are we ‘sposed ta know?
MizP: An whut gits my goat is this here’s s’posed ta be a gummite of, by & fer…
BB: The peepul… you’s perzackly rite Miz.
Homer: Ah ‘grees wif them one hunnert percent Mr. Jack. Whut’s a goin’ on?
Jack: There’s an old saying that you shouldn’t be around when laws and….
MizP: And sausage is a-bein’ made. Ah’s heered that a-fore – but Ah’m agittin
upset ‘bout hit… You can’t tell front frum back…
BB: Can’t tell if’n they’s playing baseball or ice – hockey… How’r we gonna know?
Jack: You’re all correct folks… but you have to calm down a little bit first.
MizP: OK…. I’ze cammed down… now speak up.
Jack: OK… Miz Pearlie – it’s a difficult time because
BB: Ah know you can’t tell th’ players wi’fout a program but…
Homer: Ah don’t thank th’players knows hardly enny thang… er if they do ….
MizP: If they do they show ain’t ‘splainin’ hit ta usn’s out here in th’ country.
Jack: From what I can follow each side has it’s problems… they’re trying to..
MizP: Tryin’ ta play tiddledee winks wif croquet balls.
Jack: You know we only have one minute.
MizP: OK… we gits th’ idea… better siddown fellers.
Jack: Look the main thing is to take it easy – listen carefully, especially to Boehner and Cantor …
BB: And then ---Don’t jump to conclusions?
Jack: Exactly right Billy-bob. Take your time and listen to it all.
MizP: Jist don’t b’leve it awl…
Homer: An we need ta pray….
MizP: Need ta pray an trus in th Lawd… He’s in control.
Jack: Correct Miz Pearlie… The Lord WILL be glorified as things work out.
MizP: We sho needs ta be ‘r’minded of Mr. Jack – bout ever 5 minits
Homer: More like ever 15 seconds --.
MizP: How long you thank this’ll go on Mr. Jack?
Jack: I guess we’ll still be working with this mid August and beyond……
But right now… we have to say – We’ll be back next Wednesday
<> I’m Jack Buttram . (END)
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