Here’s the last message to aim for the last week of 2011… I’m glad to be thru with this year.
The Crystal Ball game is cloudy – mainly because of mud being stirred up from the bottom. Visibility is clouded by an abundance of speculation. I’ve seen Pundits change their predictions at 15 minute intervals. That was particularly true on the last ‘showdown’ trap into which Speaker Boehner walked. But when things happen that fast it’s hard to see the curve balls coming.
Anyway – “Once bitten; twice shy.* as the old saying goes. But many of the newbies in this Congress don’t have the ‘battle’ experience that tells them the other side is laying a trap. So they blithely march on till it’s too late – and the only tools left are apologies and retreats. All of which amounts to ‘eating crow’ – and that’s not something you ‘develop a taste for.’
However we now have a years’s worth of House veterans who at least have undergone a bit of ‘class warfare’ and are learning fast. Some will be casualties – but that’s the result of desiring to be a ‘public servant.”
I heard it put fairly succinctly last week when an experienced legislator said something like: “We come here to serve the people – then we stay here to serve ourselves.
How true how true… and an honest statement by an honest member. If we have more members who look at themselves stringently instead of self-servingly – things will go a LOT smoother and fairer -- and the folks back home won’t be disappointed.
So – this’ll be the last message of 2011 – and next week we start on a clean slate. BUT I think it wise not to think the battle is over. It’s hardly begun. There was some ‘Foxhole Humor’ that survived WWII… one of the axioms I fondly recall was from an infantryman who wasn’t really *trying* to sound bitter… he just told it like he felt it. It said: “Well, it goes along like this for a while – then it gets worse!” That’s probably what ought to be expected for the next couple of years after the self-created god has fallen from grace. Existence still goes on--- and if the tubers aren’t too big you can probably get to where they don’t taste bad at all. It seems to be what comes with the game… like playing with a wire connected to the 3rd rail. When the game’s no fun any more – it’s time to leave.
Too many of our ‘public servants’ have failed to heed the warnings.
OK… signing off for today --- and this year.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack Buttram
Have a blessed New Year in the Lord!
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“JUST A MINUTE”
IS THE #2 ABOUT TO BECOME #3?
Just a Minute: Is Burger-King about to lose his throne? Remember the “Where’s The Beef?” hamburger wars about 25 years ago? Maybe we’re going to travel that way again. The American people – at least a hefty portion of them – are ‘plumb upset’ the way things are going with our government. They’re about to ‘throw the bums out’ – they’ve been asking “Where’s the beef?” too long… it’s time for answers and it appears it’s more than ‘tea party’ time.
Last week Wendy’s got ready to pass the usual hamburger #2 slot with 1400 fewer stores than Burger King – the usual occupant as the second ranked hamburger purveyor. Does this intimate there’s rebellion in the lower ranks of
The unquestioned leader in hamburgers is McDonalds selling about 2.3 million dollars worth a year; whereas both Burger King and Wendy’s sell about 2.6 million together. To what do we attribute this shift in taste?
Sure there’ve have been menu changes but little Wendy in pig tails may be joggling the physically larger monarch because Americans are gonna upset the Hamburger cart signifying bigger changes to come. Stay tuned.
<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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