Cerebral Flatulence

Dave Davies of the Philadelphia Inquirer asks, “When a shady pol squeezes, where do you turn?”

“It’s a big step, but I think we’d have less mischief if now and then one of those who gets a shady proposal from a pol called back and said, ‘You know, I’m going to take this down to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and if they say this is cool, we’ll talk about it.’ “

Yes, politicians are fellow citizens doing their jobs, so hey, I should lighten up, huh?

No.

These fellow citizens use other peoples’ money to get jobs that give them power tell the rest of us how to run our lives. The folks who pay the piper call the tune, and despite much effort, the power brokers who fund our politicians will not permit the rest of us to meddle in their deliberations. We, the hoi polloi, must buy back our governments from the perennnial few. And politicians should remember that they are temp workers, hired for the moment to manage our collective affairs.

Maybe we should have citizen “minders” to act as revolving Jiminy Crickets for our hard-pressed legislators and executives. Joe and Jane Bleaux’s who’d keep an eye on things for a week at a time, like jury duty.

If politicians don’t like the new order, why, then, they can find other work. You know, just like the rest of us.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 at 5:40 am and is filed under Beef Feces, Blather, Noise, Poly Ticks.
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