Politics on the Cheap
A blog note in the New York Times spoke about an offer to have dinner with President Obama and Senator Boxer in San Francisco. Apparently the Senate Dems were trying to get someone to cough up big bucks to ride out to Sodom West on the prexy jet and bend an elbow with Barry and Babs.
Yeah, well, but they ain’t gonna get a dime of my hard-earned. Even if I were to have them alone at the table for three hours. ‘Cause you know whoever ponies up the serious dough for this pleasure is gonna share the stars with a crowd of hundreds, maybe thousands.
But if there was some sort of electronic snafu and they called me and told me I was the one, when I got done laughing I would tell ‘em they could save on the air fare and ask if they could wrap the food and send it to me. Oh, and if these high polloi run out of things to talk about with the wealthy sycophants, I had some thoughts they might like to chew on.
First, since this is a fundraiser for Boxer’s attempt to win a fourth term in the Senate, just what had she accomplished over the past coupla decades that warranted the investment of another vote for her? She’s been branded as one of the worst or at least most liberal members of the upper chamber, but what has she actually done? Somewhere between nothing and not much. I don’t think I’ve ever tasted such good cooking that I could be bribed to vote for more of the same.
Second, Mr. President, considering how little you’ve gotten done, maybe you should stay in Washington and figure out how to lead. Pandering to the powerful – oil, broadcasters, insurance, unions, and the military – at the expense of our nation is the wrong choice.
Hey, you two, how ‘bout proving that you haven’t been bought and get the money out of politics? That mother’s milk is long curdled. You spend too much of our time raising it to buy our votes and then you leave us in the dust.
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