Straws and camels.
Jul. 13th, 2004 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumThis has finally gotten to the point that a niggling thing is now chafed raw.
I am talking about the FMA.
Not a day goes by that I don't see at least two people telling me I need to call my senator and tell them to vote down.
Which seems silly because word on the Hill is it's Dead on Arrival.
Don't get me wrong, I think the FMA is a bilious bit of stuff, rancid and foul, a fetid, steaming, turd in in the water cooler.
Because it's working.
People are ignoring the real issues of the day, to bitch and moan about this.
What of the report on Iraq... the one which says there were no ties to Al Qaeda? Lost.
What of the detainees in Gitmo, who aren't being held by the DoD, and so will still be denied access to the courts?
Lost.
What of the White House arguing that Dept. heads can lie to Congress about what things will cost, and it breaks no law, despite that oversight being one of the duties of Congress?
Lost.
What of the continued decline in real wages?
Lost
What of...
Lost.
Lost.
Lost.
Which lets them run the debate. Issues that hurt them, swept away, in a tide of (justifiable, but short-sighted) indignation.
But that indignation helps Bush. His base can now go to the more indifferent of their fellow travellers, and say, "See what the homosexual agenda has done? Now they want marraige, then they'll want boyfriends for the sons they get to adopt, and pervert. Do you want them to pick your kids?"
And they might turn out to vote.
We need to figure out what the, "X", is in this election and remember, "It's the "X" stupid."
I am talking about the FMA.
Not a day goes by that I don't see at least two people telling me I need to call my senator and tell them to vote down.
Which seems silly because word on the Hill is it's Dead on Arrival.
Don't get me wrong, I think the FMA is a bilious bit of stuff, rancid and foul, a fetid, steaming, turd in in the water cooler.
Because it's working.
People are ignoring the real issues of the day, to bitch and moan about this.
What of the report on Iraq... the one which says there were no ties to Al Qaeda? Lost.
What of the detainees in Gitmo, who aren't being held by the DoD, and so will still be denied access to the courts?
Lost.
What of the White House arguing that Dept. heads can lie to Congress about what things will cost, and it breaks no law, despite that oversight being one of the duties of Congress?
Lost.
What of the continued decline in real wages?
Lost
What of...
Lost.
Lost.
Lost.
Which lets them run the debate. Issues that hurt them, swept away, in a tide of (justifiable, but short-sighted) indignation.
But that indignation helps Bush. His base can now go to the more indifferent of their fellow travellers, and say, "See what the homosexual agenda has done? Now they want marraige, then they'll want boyfriends for the sons they get to adopt, and pervert. Do you want them to pick your kids?"
And they might turn out to vote.
We need to figure out what the, "X", is in this election and remember, "It's the "X" stupid."
