The Bucci Twins and the State of the Union SpeechI was reading TruthOut.org last week when I came across an op-ed by one of my favorite political writers: William Rivers Pitt.
Pitt, God bless him, is urging congresspeople to stand up and walk out of the President's State Of The Union Speech tomorrow:
"George W. Bush's delivery of the State of the Union address will take place on Tuesday, January 31, a little more than a week from now. It is my strong belief that every single Democrat present in the House chamber for the speech should, at a predetermined moment, stand up and walk out. No yelling. No heated words. Every Democrat should simply stand silently and leave. <snip>
The writing has been on the wall for a while now. Back in 1995, Republican Senator Phil Gramm said, "We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs." That was eleven years ago. If you listen close, you can hear the beasts baying in the distance, waiting to slip the leash. Your limp tactics in the face of the assault upon you, your vacillation, your strange hope that maybe the GOP will be nicer tomorrow, has left you all smelling like Alpo."
He's right of course.
If we had a real opposition party in this country Pitt wouldn't need to beg congressional Democrats to make a statement like this; it would be as expected as fries with a Big Mac.
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Since William Rivers Pitt got to tell us his fantasy, let me share with you my State of the Union best-case scenario:
I'm sitting at my favorite pub watching the President's speech, drowning my sorrows in a pint of Guinness, when I notice the Bucci twins eying me from across the bar.
They walk over and Shawna would say: "Excuse me, but Jennifer and I were just wondering - are you that hunky blogger Paul -V- of Brainshrub.com?"
"Why yes. Yes I am," I would reply as nonchalantly as possible.
"Like, wow!" Jennifer would exclaim, her blue eyes wide with sheer awe, "We are huge fans!"
"Yeah," Shawna would interrupt, "let's go up to our hotel room where we will have unrestrained wild-weasel sex. I hope you're into whipped cream and cowboy hats."
*Ahem*
... ummm... sorry about the tangent ... where was I?
In any case, my scenario is far more realistic then expecting the current batch of incumbent Democrats from doing anything except politely applauding, or perhaps harrumphing occasionally, during the president's speech.
I could be wrong, and I still have hope that at least a few Liberals will have the courage to stand up and make a statement with their feet. Hope is to the Liberal psyche what erotic fantasies are to men. We just can't help ourselves.
If the Democrats do anything gutsy during the State of the Union... assume that I'm grinning from ear-to-ear with a container of whipped cream.
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