Ode to a Comment

Jimmy Wrote:

Oh, finally a new post. I check everyday and typically find nothing. OK, maybe not every day, but fairly often. Anywho, I appreciate you posting to your blog, even if I rarely read your links. Hmmm, I kinda like bumble barf. It's really only good as an additive, not so much on its own.
Now on to some non-bee related crap. This Democratic race thing is getting really boring. I practically don't even care anymore. I mean, I would be hard pressed to vote for "Four More Years" McCain, but it almost seems like we are in such a mess right now, it's gonna take more than a decade to get back on the right track. I have an idea of how to make it a good idea to get out of Iraq, though. All we have to do is actually start paying for it...not max out our national credit card. We are very cheap here in America. If each American had to start paying for the war (increase taxes and stop the corporate welfare), we'd be gittin' out damn quick. We just don't like to pay for stuff today. That is so last century. OMG, I am rambling. I'm done.

More like the century before. Since FDR, government's been going down hill. Well, actually government's got it really good, its the rest of us that are suffering. I like your idea a LOT though. I think that was basically what they meant by a "balanced budget" amendment. As I recall, and I could be wrong, it was the "True Believers" of the 1994 GOP congressional overthrow that offered it as part of their contract to or for America. Let me look it up ...

OK, here it is. For those too lazy or disinterested to read, the GOP contract with America did in fact contain a bill called "The Fiscal Responsibility Act" - ie, the budget amendment that insisted we have a balanced budget. BUT - I should note that it stipulated an exception for war spending so ... Yeah, Neo-Con inc. would have gotten around that anyhow. But I still like the idea. Or maybe we could put the matter of real-time funding to a referendum vote every other year. IE, a popular war would likely allow for debt-spending, but an unpopular would be killed off or at least re-thought due to the requirement of immediate funding.

Now, as for "four more years" McCain, keep in mind that McCain and Bush have been at odds since Bush first threw his cowboy hat into the presidential candidate ring back in 1998. McCain has to his "credit" a variety of non-constitutional bi-partisan legislation. Just think of McCain-Feingold! I love that McCain is now strapped for cash thanks to ... yep - McCain-Feingold. Karnation Instant Karma, Vanilla flavored. Anyhow, it is interesting to see how McCain was the darling of the press for YEARS because he criticized the GOP. But now that he's running for president he's suddenly "Bush-Lite" according to the press. It's all very funny in my not-so-humble opinion. He's reaping what he has sown.

You know what I want in a president? A guy who doesn't really want to be president. Reagan didn't want to get in politics back in the 60's when his buds asked him to run for governor. And he didn't, at least not at first. So they built up a fund called something like "Friends of Reagan" just in case he changed his mind. Reagan did it not because he was power-hungry, or because of his ego, or because his Dad expected him to. No. He did it because he hated poor people and the homeless and wanted to hurt them as best he could. Funny tangent thought - no matter how much the left berates Reagan, the Right just keeps on trying to emulate him. Don't they know that the jury is in on this one? The media has spoken - Reagan was a meany!!! Why does the right keep acting like he was some great guy? Don't they know when to cede defeat?

OK, back on track. Washington didn't want to prez either, at least according to my 5th grade teacher. One of these days I'll look that up to see if it's true. Back to McCain:
This was McCain's reaction to winning the California primary. We understand by his triumphant fist pump that this is a sober moment, indeed. Here we see John's face darken with the understanding and appreciation of this solemn task that he may eventually have to undertake. This is McCain's hour in the garden of Gethesemane.

Seriously though, wouldn't it be nice to have politicians who really looked at elected office as service, something they feel the obligation to do?