Genius-Level Musings
Posted by TFG on March 16th, 2008
Some things need to be preserved in amber for my descendants. This here’s one:
Why are they doing it? In a presidential election year, you have to ask? Your Curmudgeon is never surprised when a prominent politician cooks up a new “crisis” in a year divisible by four. The Pandering Steeplechase never actually ends, but the jockeys go to their crops most ardently in a quadrennial year. If they don’t have a ready-made rationale, they’ll synthesize one out of whatever’s available.
The Curmudgeon Emeritus is rarely misaligned with The Fat Guy, and he’s a superiour writer who never fails to show his work.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Crises are stockpiled for election years. The problems exist long before, but they’re hauled out for shits and giggles on the campaign trail. Take California. We knew there was a budget crisis. We knew that would happen when the uninformed voters chose to support the stem cell research bill. Let’s see…we’ll have the state pay for research, costing us billions of dollars, and then in a couple years we’ll complain there’s no money for the little things, like education. We’re being asked to cut $80 billion from our schools. Why are the same people who voted for the state sponsored research surprised there’s nothing left for schools?
It’s worse at the federal level and we’re supposed to accept this as shocking news. It ain’t shocking and it ain’t news. It’s the same old song and dance, just with a different bandleader