Politics, Politicians, - January 8 Tucson Shooting Aftermath.
Our local politician, a democrat, had a telephone "public meeting" tonight to thousands of his voters. I was one of them. If we wanted to talk to him, you press "Star 3" a voice came on the phone and said "What is your question for the Congressman?"
I gave him a question, and 28 minutes later, still hadn't heard the answer, so I hung up. In the interveening time, I heard the most general, bland blather aimed at the citizenry one imagines Joe Six Pack could absorb at 7 o'clock at night after a hard day's work on a lineman's truck, on the construction line, or a full day's shift at 7/11.
Every politician I have ever heard since Mo Udall has done the same number, " We have to create more jobs, those Republicans fight us on this, I'm fight for you on that." (Fill in the blanks.)
William F Buckley, the late lamented conservative, once ran for New York City Mayor and lost said it was an art if not a science as to what, "if anything," to tell the American people when running for office. He, of the top of the mind, learned quickly, never to tell them what you were actually thinking.
Blather sells. It doesn't matter which side of the political fence you rest, manure enriches the soil, and your future, throw some. Jefferson, or whomever said it was right: we get the government we deserve.
All the cliches are true. The former Congressman JC Watts of Oklahoma bailed out of that auguste body years back seeing the handwritin gon the wall: gridlock. Now, firmly in cement, we get no where.
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I gave him a question, and 28 minutes later, still hadn't heard the answer, so I hung up. In the interveening time, I heard the most general, bland blather aimed at the citizenry one imagines Joe Six Pack could absorb at 7 o'clock at night after a hard day's work on a lineman's truck, on the construction line, or a full day's shift at 7/11.
Every politician I have ever heard since Mo Udall has done the same number, " We have to create more jobs, those Republicans fight us on this, I'm fight for you on that." (Fill in the blanks.)
William F Buckley, the late lamented conservative, once ran for New York City Mayor and lost said it was an art if not a science as to what, "if anything," to tell the American people when running for office. He, of the top of the mind, learned quickly, never to tell them what you were actually thinking.
Blather sells. It doesn't matter which side of the political fence you rest, manure enriches the soil, and your future, throw some. Jefferson, or whomever said it was right: we get the government we deserve.
All the cliches are true. The former Congressman JC Watts of Oklahoma bailed out of that auguste body years back seeing the handwritin gon the wall: gridlock. Now, firmly in cement, we get no where.
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