The good thing is....
Republicans and
Democrats in Congress managed to hold the vomit down late last night, long enough
to avoid a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security for a whole week.
You remember what
Homeland Security does: mostly it protects America against terrorists, and it
also guards our borders to make sure not too many of those pesky illegal
immigrants come across to do those hard, nasty jobs that most Americans won’t
do.
The bad thing is….
Waiting until there’s
only an hour and 45 minutes left before the Homeland Security department has to
legally shut down before scrambling to pass a wretched one-week funding
extension is really not governing….it’s a pathetic parody of government.
You remember Punch,
the puppet who loves to bash everyone with his stick. The folks in
post-Shakespeare London called it the “slapstick.” Now, this is a rough
approximation….say that the current Congress is a Punch and Judy show, with
this difference: “Punch” is certain Republicans in Congress. “Judy” is you. And
me.
Copyright © Richard
Carl Subber 2015
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