A day in the life of American governance

Today, Speaker Boehner said that U.S. senators should "get off their ass" and resolve the catastrophically pending sequester, which most of Boehner's members voted for, and then Majority Leader Eric Cantor whined something so typically repugnant that no one listened, and then Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy demanded of the president that "It is time for leadership," which the president most recently displayed in producing a draft for immigration reform, for which he got handed supreme Republican indignation and was told to never ever to do that again, and now it's reported that the Senate indeed "plans to vote on two competing measures to replace or modify the sequester, but neither is expected to achieve the 60-vote threshold needed to advance"--that being the Republican custom of blocking everything on which the GOP urges progress--and so the president is wandering around Virginia, joined by at least one other House Republican, Scott Rigell, who wants his own party's leaders to fucking do something, which, in the end, so to speak, will produce nothing more than Speaker John Boehner telling the Senate to get off its ass.

And there you have it, one day in the life of American governance.

Comments

[AnneJ]

So when Kevin McCarthy makes a childish demand that Obama show some leadership, does that mean he's implying that his own party is incapable of what they demand from the president? If so, then it's not exactly a reason to keep voting for them in future elections.

[Turgidson]

Where is Yoda when you need him. The only way for Obama to satsify these idiotic demands for leadership is for him to develop the power to perform a Jedi mind trick on at least half the House GOP caucus, including the leadership.

I consider Obama to be a brilliant and multi-talented person, but this is far beyond his abilities, I fear.

[japa21]

Just curiosity. Is that the longest sentence you have ever written? I would hate to have to diagram it.

[PM]

Japa, since I logged only 5 days in high school before they permanently expelled me, I COULDN'T diagram it. But no I think I came up a bit short of my longest.

[Janicket]

I'm not going to lay it out here, but I can affirm PM's protracted sentence does in fact diagram correctly.

I once wrote a sentence of comparable length and complex clausality, but that was as a stunt and a joke, the punchline of which was the five-word next (and concluding) paragraph.

[Peter G]

Yet the Republicans are on standby should the president bring forth a plan to deal with any of the many problems that beset their country. Lindsey Graham has two husky boys waiting to help him to his fainting couch, John Boehner has a pallet of tissues with which to absorb his tears, John McCain is holding at bay a public verbal shart such as the world has ever seen, and Eric Cantor is wearing a dog whistle around his neck that dwarfs Flava Flav's timepiece. Yep. Business as usual.