The fine art of destruction. Lesson 1

[APPLE314]

Years ago I was told to stop my complaining because people don't listen to me anyhow. This bugged me, so I took a little time to think about it and I came up with a reasonable solution. I decided to only complain about one subject. I figured that if I did that I would get so good at complaining on that subject that people would have to listen.

I tried it out at our local McDonald's. I noticed that the hamburger was selling for $.59 and the Cheeseburger was selling for $.64. This meant they were charging a nickel for the cheese. But, the Quarter Pounder was $1.05 and the Quarter Pounder with cheese was $1.15. They were charging $.10 for the cheese.

Being a true Democrat I naturally ordered a Quarter Pounder, but, I told them I wanted the nickel piece of cheese. They said I couldn't have it. I asked if it was the same piece of cheese they put on their Hamburger and they said "Yes" so I said " Well, make mine with the nickel piece of cheese."

I kept it up, and after about 5 minutes and the crowd building up they gave in and gave me my Quarter Pounder with the nickel piece of cheese.

While I was eating it they changed the price of the Cheeseburger to $.69 raising the price of the cheese on the cheeseburger to $.10.

Being a true Democrat I asked them why they didn't lower the price of the cheese on the Quarter Pounder to match the price of the cheese on the Cheeseburger. After several minutes of heated discussion about 30 of us were asked to leave the premises. One of the little girls working there said they had called the police.

The business is now gone, having gone bankrupt. It lost all of it's local business because of the incident, but it proves you can be really effective if you concentrate all of your efforts on one subject.

This brings me to the main point of my rant.

Bush is on the ropes. We know it because we put him there. We did it by concentrating of one subject, namely, dechimping Washington DC. Bush is totally ineffective now, blowing around like the feather in the wind in Forest Gump and we have Chimpy saying life is like a box of chocolate covered turds and you just never know what you're going to get.

So the question now becomes, What are we going to do for an encore? Are we getting the biggest bang for our efforts by staying on Bush or would we be better served mastering another subject?

Personally I say let's take these idiots on, but I don't believe we have enough ammo just saying it's their mess. The counter statement "If we knew it was their mess, we still should have helped to straighten it up" is valid if you are an American. To win our case we have to prove that they are the obstructionists. This we can do. Look at all the blocked committees and all the straight party line votes, etc. We can prove they are a "Do Nothing, Steal Everything" Congress and they don't deserve to be reelected. In fact they deserve to be ostracized publicly.

I think that we can be guilty of making the argument too complicated. I am going to make that my next complaint project and concentrate on making things simpler.

Gotta go! to be continued.......

BUSH SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[neoblues]

1. We need a list...

a list, for example, of what would have been useful, popular actions that were proposed by Democrats in Congress and rejected/blocked and even prevented from being proposed--by those obstructivists who call themselves Republicans.

Maybe a table showing "We (Americans) could have had:" in column one, and "Except Republicans obstructed/prevented it by:" in column two. Thus giving details of the "real" and useful ideas put forth by Democrats (who supposedly don't have or submit any "ideas"), while also detailing just how the Republicans prevented such beneficial proposals (likely including some pretty damning dirty tricks).

It seems to me that an awfully large percentage of Americans out there are still ignorant of just how totally Democrats have been excluded from even the smallest participation in Congress (leaving them with no other options than to "obstruct" the Republicans (not to mention that even those options have been severely limited)). So many people, unaware that Democrats haven't had more than the tiniest say in what Congress has been doing, are blaming both sides equally (if not equally, then blaming Democrats even more).

Analogia:

If you assigned a project to solve a problem/do a job, to ten students and broke them into two subgroups, one with six students and one with four--whereupon the group of six used their majority vote to rule that the group of four could not participate or even propose any ideas or make any suggestions--and, at most, could only quietly complain or try to stop the implementation of various propositions made by the group of six (but only by trying to convince individual members of the group of six not to support his own group's choices)... When the project fails miserably--it would hardly be fair to blame the members of the group of four. Americans often have a sense of fairness, and if they understood that the group of four had no real part in the project, they would tend not to blame them.

It's shocking, actually, that such a large percentage of the law making body of our government would be so excluded; it's almost equally shocking that the news media avoids mentioning it--and probably even more amazing that the Democrats themselves don't seek to make it more evident (I'm imagining they have some political/strategic reasons for doing so and aren't just being quiet out of embarrassment or hurt pride). Nevertheless, it seems to me that a great many citizens don't understand the current malfunctioning of our Congress and that if they did understand (including how much harm it has done to us), they would not only not blame the Democrats--but they'd even go outside their normal partisan voting tendencies and vote for Democrats (when the Democrat appears to be reasonably respectable/honorable/intelligent as an individual) in order to correct this imbalance. Perhaps that's just wishful thinking--but in many cases, at least it would result in a proper re-apportioning of the blame (away from Democrats and onto those who actually made the bad decisions of the last nearly six years).

Still, just to show what could have been, what Democrats tried to propose--and shed light on how the Republicans "obstructed" such progressive efforts; would be an important part of any attempt to restore the people's support for Democrats for Congress. Add the titillating, behind the scenes dirty Republican tricks employed, while showing how Republicans "excluded" Democrats from doing the very jobs we, the people, elected them to do... and we're on the road to turning this situation around.