In the most striking example of our new, more civil, post-partisan style of government, a Democrat has suggested rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic...oops...we meant on the floor of the House Chamber, for Barack Obama's upcoming State of the Union address.
By longstanding tradition, Democrats would sit on one side of the chamber, Republicans would sit on the other side, and no one would sit with Arlen Specter.
In the past, this has at least made for reasonably amusing television. The entire body of Democrats tends to catapult out of their seats, whooping and applauding, every time the president says something like "the urgency of today demands the thrivance of togetherness tomorrow." Meanwhile, the Republicans glare stolidly as if sizing up a dimwitted waiter who doesn't know his thumb is in the soup.
But not this year. Momentum is building for the Republicans and Democrats to sit together, side by side, to show that despite petty partisan politics and nearly insurmountable national crises, our elected representatives are united in their opposition to lunatics in red G-strings.
And, oh yeah, it will look much better for the president than having a majority of the House scowl bleakly, anchored to their seats, when he insists that the best way to protect ourselves from an approaching economic asteroid is to increase our debt.
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As Colonel Potter would say "Horse Puckey", or whatever it was he said.
ReplyDeleteI say they should sit apart, so the American Public can see which (democ)rats are jumping up and down whenever Teh One says something inane.
Which will probably be for 90% of his speech.....
Well the Bible does say that Satan causes the Tares (weeds) to be sown among the Wheat.
ReplyDeleteI believe it was, "Horse Hockey", spoken by Col. Potter, but Puckey will also suffice.
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans would have to be a bunch of craven, cowardly pukes to fall for this blatant and obvious tactic. I fully expect they will. Drip, drip, drip...
ReplyDeleteAHD - Yah, the sorry pukes. Also starting already to back off the spending reductions - BOO! Weasel poops!
ReplyDeletedrjim - I too believe it's "horse hockey" and "bull puckey" but as noted, we all know what is MEANT....
"moo poo" being one of my personal faves - is QUITE clear, and acceptable for use in front of Mom..
and big Horray for JustAJeepGuy, who is no longer anon!
Sitting here waiting to see if the new Reps will be men or mice.
ReplyDeletenew ones, at least, we can hope will keep their (wo)man hood intact, perhaps show the way to the RINOs we haven't managed to get rid of yet..
ReplyDeletePete (Detroit), thanks for the advice. Gee, URL rhymes with Earl.
ReplyDeleteEvery welcome, Earl! Fig'd when you guys started adding names, you were not really interested in being anon...
ReplyDeleteReaders- As the AOL voice would say "You've Got Names!" It's nice to be able to associate identities with the folks who are frequent commentors. I genuinely look forward to your input every day!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the folks could get some steadiness in their spines out of the exercise.
ReplyDeletePicture it. A great sea of anonymous faces with an occasional jumping jack bouncing up every time the "applause" cue comes up--each cork bopping amid a larger group of politely smiling Republicans (with an occasional empty seat where a Supreme Court Justice--or an injured congresswoman--should be sitting).
that comic made me giggle a bit
ReplyDelete"By longstanding tradition, Democrats would sit on one side of the chamber, Republicans would sit on the other side, and no one would sit with Arlen Specter." HIGH-LARIOUS!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCome on folks, this is what our govt does best...things that are totally unnessesary and meaningless thinking that its going to fool the public into looking at them a certain way! I particularly always hated it when, like in school, some teacher made you do things like this!
I'm with suzy....be men not mice! It'll be good practice for legislating with liberals!
In Arizona, the House of Reps was "R" majority and the Speaker arranged the seating so no Dem sat next to another Dem. This kept them, I suppose, from confering with each other over legislation and; preventing the tenured D members from tutoring the new D members. I kinda liked the idea, myself.
ReplyDeleteAt the request of the minority leader, the Speaker eventually agreed to segregate the two parties by seating them on opposite sides of the aisle. The only time the difference between the majority and minority parties membership was really noticeable was when they would have a standing vote count or if they come at all.
The dems should keep their liberal cooties away from the republican side of the floor.
The State Of The Union "Message" is not required to be presented as a speech and wasn't delivered that way until, I think, Woodrow Wilson (Demo_rat). Sadly, now it's just a cheap and cheesy (so to speak) pep rally. When was the last time a SOTU speech had any REAL substance?
ReplyDelete"dimwitted waiter who doesn't know his thumb is in the soup"
ReplyDeleteAside from the fact that you've just insulted dimwitted waiters everywhere (by comparison), it's not that O-Bama-Lama-Ding-Dong doesn't realize his thumb's in the soup; he simply didn't realize it was his thumb.