Voting to Pose and Give Crazy One More Shot at the Big Time

Somewhere in the juvenile consciousness of House Republicans rests the assumption that progress is best conceptualized and viewed from the “changing same” that recedes from a fixed gaze on a rearview mirror.  Never mind driving the car; it’s pedal to mettle; damn the torpedoes; and any other cliché you can imagine to signify the foolish worth of ill-founded and ultimately quite stupid action carried out as an homage to a myth: the clear thinking cowboy, Marlboro Man, or sheriff, having subdued possibility now sits resolute on his trusty steed, riding off into the sunset. 

The myth is without reflection and therefore unavailable for change.  The myth knows its right, even as it is swallowed up by the fierce consequences of its actions.  The myth is PR, the clever sound bite perfected for the moment.  “You tell ‘em Big boy.”  And so on. Myth exalts itself as the “I” in team and is always singularly victorious.  But is always willing to share and rationalize failure.

And it is this “I” that has been killing  “we” for the last eight years.  And now the “I’s”—who never really had it—even when they were in the majority—have begun a new pledge class for crazies.  Obviously, these women and men have talents that could be put to use for the “we,” but they are becoming grizzled junkyard dogs chained to ideology and unable to freely go where sincere questions might take them.  Stake to the past, they travel the same circumference daily.  Barking is mandatory.

It’s still cool—early in the game really.  The decision of every Republican House member to vote against the stimulus package demonstrates how hard evolution can be:  “Leave them alone and they’ll come home, wagging their tales behind them.”

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