Will Says...The Filibuster: Weapon of Mass Disruption!

Now, if you read my little comments on Monday about the fact that
Republicans are working on changing duck hunting season to LAME DUCK
HUNTING, to somewhere around November 4th or election time, whichever
comes first. Then, you know I was taking shots at Republicans for
stopping progress, or its four letter equal, WORK! They, the
Republicans are pointing fingers, '˜cause raising a hand would be way
too much to ask for. Pointing fingers at Democrats for getting too
much of this work thing done after elections. Republican's defense was
clear; if the American
people wanted you Democrats to get the job done, they would not have
taken the keys to the car. But instead, at the November elections they
sent most of you Democrats thumbing for a ride to the unemployment
office.

Ok, so now it's the Democrats turn; today is the day we swear in the
new birds into their spot in the 112 Senate. It's the day that gives
us a new House Speaker, however, what we know of this Speaker (John
Boehner) we don't think speaking is something he will do so much. More
like heart to heart talks and it will no doubt end in one of us
getting teary eyed and emotional. Anyhow, Democrats first order, IF
they get a chance to speak, is to try to nick the FILIBUSTER; that's
right, the old Mr. Smith goes to Washington tactic. But, if you all
know anything about these weapons of mass disruptions -- filibusters,
then you know that the modern day filibuster is way less energetic
than when Jimmy Stewart did it. Maybe it's because we can afford to
shell out the kind
of money it takes to get a Senator talk that long. Or, because we can't
get a politician that can spend that much time on the floor if the
Senate is working.
Plus, the opposite side can stop a bill cold and you will never know
who did it. It's called "Secret Hold" -- But I like to call it --
gutless.

See, nowadays all one needs to do is have a party leader even head
fake on a possible filibuster and it will send the house spinning out
if control like the house in the Wizard of Oz.

Now it's kinda more Like Congressional Na na, "I don't Like your bill
and I'm going to BUST it right now. Na na na! "
So, that's the work that Democrats want to get accomplished in "the
first day of work" today. Boy I never thought I would ever use the
words DAY OF WORK when it came to '˜politicians'.

Democrats want to change the Filibuster rules to get the old fashioned
talk till you drop action in place. Mainly'˜cause they know that most
politicians are out of shape and would not be able to flap their jaw
that long without falling asleep.

By The Way, I heard a rumor that Republicans were going to spend the
time on the first day reading the constitution out loud. I hope they
don't have Mr. Boehner read it; he won't make it past, "We the people"
without shedding a tear.

I say, have a bunch of kids read it out loud. There's something more
meaningful about an innocent face reading that document.

If you want to see what the rules of a filibuster are, look it up on
Google like I did with Lame Duck. Funny thing is, you could just swap
out lame duck with filibuster and it reads the same way, CONFUSING!

Lots of mumbo jumbo that translates to the same thing; abusing the
system for political gain. Each side thinks they are being abused.
Of course; it's only called abuse by the ones who are on the bad end
of the stick, the beating end, not the ones who hold the stick.

If you ask this humorist, I say Americans might be in for a long two
years. As I see it, BOTH parties are looking like the party of
NO -- WORK!

My plan: make them talk a filibuster all the way through -- Nothing less
than four hours. And sell tickets to this event. It will finally turn
CSPAN into a money making business. Throw a little lighting and
costumes in and you might get Cirque du Soleil to produce it, THEN you
Senate folks will know you hit the big time! Only, if they pick it up,
please don't bring it here to Vegas; we have enough out of work
comedians, we don't need more.

Your friend,
Will

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