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June 26, 2005 Following on the high heels of Laura Bush, who has made a big time effort to bring down the comedy circuit houses to her level of political cool, Capitol Hill has lost its sense of dignity and stooped to the level of slapstick comedy with both sides of the aisle trading insults and attitudes and not much else of note going on, except for shows of power for the sake of power. Clearly, the arguments on Capitol Hill are getting downright nasty, fit for the World Wrestling Federation, or some other low grade form of entertainment, if not a straight mud throwing league rather than the August Halls of Congress, where the environs are filled with antique national treasures and the halls are normally full of dignity and respect, not tomfoolery. The first to take low grade politics to a new depth, in an effort to create a little excitement in an otherwise dull political season, was Howard Dean, Chair of the Democratic Party, who has perfected the art of the tantrum, the hissy fit, the I am not happy smiley face, encouraging Dick Cheney, Vice President of these United States, to exchange verbal blows and worse with him. "Yo Ma," said Dean, reminding people of all those off color groaners, and not as any sort of obvious or even off the wall reference to the cellist, whose full name is Yo Yo Ma, and who has taken the Silk Road of political diplomacy, unlike the current crew of hard charging Capitol Hill politicians. Because they seek to motivate their groupies, this country will have no such luck in this session of Congress where the underhanded dig is becoming more and more the fashion du jour. Not to be outshone, as part of a pattern set when Harry Reid, who as Hairy Read can light your ears afire , let me tell you, got in the act by saying President Bush was a loser, a wise crack he later apologized for, sort of. Then it was Howard Dean again, chiming in that the Republicans were "pretty much a white, Christian party," comments he refused to take back. What does he expect? Buddhists he can take to the cleaners and who would roll over for his off color rhetoric and applaud no end of approval. Adding to the unhappiness, Nancy Pelosi, another politician who knows how to put on airs and attitudes wants to find a way to release some Guantanamo detainees and Dick Durbin, chiming in that "Guantanamo ... must have been done by Nazis ... or some mad regime. I can truthfully comment that I am made at these folks. A lot of good it does me. Karl Rove, the political advice heavyweight and advisor to the stars, weighed in that the Democrats were preparing indictments and offering therapy for our attackers whereas this Republican Administration has sought to take the fight to the perpetrators home turf, where bombs explode daily instead of in embassies and battleships and hijacked airliners. New York’s hometown Senators, Chucky and Hill, known for farming out the hot, sweaty work as previously reported here, replied in kind. "We’re not gonna take this!" "Inflammatory and divisive comments" "score partisan political points at the expense of ... victims and their families." We should know based on long, hard earned experience with this dismal situation. A Multi-faceted Portrait of Chucky! Senator for life Ted ("Chappaquiddick") Kennedy, oblivious to the contradictions inherent in his questions, asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign, but was told, "The offer was not accepted." Clearly having a "Defensive Secretary" is a big political plus, don’t you think? Note the blithe obliviousness to real world issues. Will the wonders of amazing political revelations never cease. The Republican Governor of New York in discussing President Bush and, by inference, Mr. Rove is quoted as saying, "I am very proud of the way in which he responded, the resolve that he showed." Veep Cheney has been quoted as saying Guantanamo is a vital facility and that prisoners there are well-treated, well-fed and living in the Tropics. But he further believes in detaining bomb makers and other terrorists. "And I question whether or not we would have seen that same response out of Al Gore had he been elected." ’The terms schmuck, idiot, jerk and fool have not been tossed about yet, but based on long experience, such things may be forthcoming sooner than anyone likes. Real mud. Real crud. Reel blood. A real dud! I want to point out that the price of a barrel of crude oil is approaching sixty bucks a barrel, a dismal fact of life that the powers that be in Washington approach with the same cynicism as they approach the above issues. I further want to point out that little or nothing real world has been done about the issues raised by this writer, including but not limited to fighting wildfires, reducing crime, balancing trade, implementing a believable long term energy policy or even finding a usable source for the hydrogen President Bush promises and so on. What a bad joke! Oops. You don’t joke with these guys. Let me tell you. This is my twenty-seventh article for Useless-Knowledge, where I expect to continue posting, my articles for other e-zines having riled up political empires, although a forth effort on thespoof.com explaining how the New York Jets are now homeless was published Sunday, June 26. Right now, I am not sure whether my next story will be about baseball or how lucrative using private account Social Security accounts invested in Standard and Poors 500 stocks or the Nasdaq 100 could be. I am trying to shop a story about how the Dow went from 40 in 1896 to 10,400 nowadays, a very substantial return on a mere $40. ------------ About the author: Mr. Neil Levine enjoys writing and collecting autographed letters: E. I. Koch, D. P. Moynihan, J. Javits, G. W. Bush, B. Frist et al. Email: neillevine3@aol.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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