No Decision is Difficult When You’re Properly Focused
Nothing’s Tough When You Know the Score
David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the president, said, “I have great admiration and solicitude for those members because they’ve had to make tough decisions in a difficult time.”
After promising complete transparency and involved citizen participation Congress passed an enormous budget-busting bill that totally reorganizes government in a hurry-up hush-hush way without even reading the entire thing in a way that shut out the entire opposition and all Americans who weren’t in Congress and making special deals, called bribes in the real world, to get some senators to go along. What’s the prob?
For the average person to ignore the people who elected him, to break explicit pledges, to ignore the party leader’s promises about CNN and the Internet, well, that might have been tough. Even difficult. But not, apparently, for this crowd. When Nancy Pelosi put that big smirk on her face after telling us we had to pass the health care bill to find out what was in it did she look like she was having a difficult time?
When Democrats made their victory march and Nancy Pelosi waved her giant gavel around did they look like the decision was tough or the time difficult?
Of course not. They were focused because they were giving us what they know we must have. What our wishes were had no bearing on the issue. To consider the wishes of the electorate would be to lose focus. The representatives did their jobs. They just decided to represent the president–his unions, his bundlers, and his lobbyists — rather than their constituents.
What was difficult or tough about that?
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