They dig into the smoldering ashes of their resources and scrape for fragments of legitimacy. Their lords have long since raised the castle gates and retired or sailed away to lands unreachable with their profits.
Yet the peasants remain loyal to the bitter end when the gnawing hunger in their bellies gives way to spinning grayness and then endless dark, never having been reciprocated for all the fawning and flattering hurled upon their Feudal lords.
The villages all plundered by the knights while the awe-struck sycophants stood aside, hoping with futility to be graciously invited into knighthood. The knights themselves slowly starve on the pittance awarded by their masters in the East.
Why would anyone want to be a Republican?
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Shoe is now on the other foot. Waaa! F'n Waaa!
The 2007 Federal Fiscal Budget meeting that aired on C-SPAN (3/29/06) provided a clear example of demonstrating the immediacy behaviors of committee members who were either actively listening; trying to listen but unconsciously distracted (using adapters); or clearly demonstrating contempt for a speaker by displaying signals of disinterest by overly dramatic use of adaptors (fidgeting, picking lint, swiveling their chairs from side to side, looking at the ceiling or other papers.
The 2007 Federal Budget meeting was dominated by Republicans by a 3 to 1 margin. Nearly all proposals from Democrats were voted against by Republican members with exception to amendments containing nothing more than a “Sense of the Congress.”
The Republican Party’s dominance by sheer numbers at the committee meeting created a situation of futility for the Democrats. The sense of absolute power in the room was demonstrated particularly by junior Republican congressmen who, while a Democrat was speaking, would lean back in their chairs, attend to lint on their sleeves, begin rocking from side to side, pick up a piece of paper and look at it, tap their pencils, look at the ceiling, lower their eyebrows and curl the corners of their mouths back in expressions that covey the message “here we go again.”
These behaviors are sometimes triggered by loud and/or condescending tones of voice, eyebrows lowered and wrinkled, arms akimbo, finger pointing, hand wringing, and salient rhetoric.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, and still, Democrats are trying to reach across the isle, and still, they draw back stumps.
Who is better? What could Republicans possibly expect from Democrats.
The 2007 Federal Budget meeting was dominated by Republicans by a 3 to 1 margin. Nearly all proposals from Democrats were voted against by Republican members with exception to amendments containing nothing more than a “Sense of the Congress.”
The Republican Party’s dominance by sheer numbers at the committee meeting created a situation of futility for the Democrats. The sense of absolute power in the room was demonstrated particularly by junior Republican congressmen who, while a Democrat was speaking, would lean back in their chairs, attend to lint on their sleeves, begin rocking from side to side, pick up a piece of paper and look at it, tap their pencils, look at the ceiling, lower their eyebrows and curl the corners of their mouths back in expressions that covey the message “here we go again.”
These behaviors are sometimes triggered by loud and/or condescending tones of voice, eyebrows lowered and wrinkled, arms akimbo, finger pointing, hand wringing, and salient rhetoric.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, and still, Democrats are trying to reach across the isle, and still, they draw back stumps.
Who is better? What could Republicans possibly expect from Democrats.
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