America's Curse: A Mushy, Malleable Middle

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11215/1164692-154-0.stm

Wednesday, August 03, 2011
By Reg Henry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

To understand why the president of the United States, having lost all other
vestiges of dignity, is sitting around in his undershorts as he celebrates the
settlement of the debt-ceiling fiasco, it is necessary to focus on two
unrecognized factors that shaped the outcome: Eustace Tilley and
Chinese fortune cookies.

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He is the emblem of The New Yorker magazine. In its famous illustration,
he is a dandy in a top hat and high collar who studies a butterfly through
a monocle in a most superior way.

Although The New Yorker is not NASCAR Illustrated and therefore more
likely the preferred reading of people who are liberal if not Democratic,
I am thinking that Eustace is an Independent.

Perhaps Independents do not all wear top hats or look at life through
monocles, preferring instead ball caps and sunglasses, but the heavy
burden of deciding American national elections makes fellows like
Eustace rather full of themselves.

It is the same every election. Reporters are constantly seeking out
Independents to find out whom they favor. "Eustace, Eustace, who will
it be?" the reporters ask, ignoring the rest of us known to have settled
opinions that reflect a basic philosophy lasting from one election to
the next.

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He goes on to discuss the basic differences in governing strategies
between the two parties and makes some great points but I've already
quoted as many paragraphs as I should -- go read the op-ed!

Tesha

the most apathetic, uninformed, lazy, easily swayed.