Want Some Cheese With That Whine?

The 'think happy thoughts' post will be coming soon (as there is much to be happy for this week!) but I pause just briefly for a rant.  I've really had it with the cries of 'foul' & claims of 'that's not fair' being made in recent days about the outgoing 111th Congress.

They may not be the smoothest game in town, but they're conducting life like a patient nearing the end of life.  What's important now that I don't have to worry about the election and there's precious little time left?  If that could somehow be translated to business-as-usual sessions we might be in business!
A bill was actually floated to ban lame-duck sessions in the future.  Right.  Gotta love that one. You guys are on the payroll through the end of the year & you took plenty enough time off for campaigning. Now you should just sit back & do nothing like a sulky teenager for two months? Sorry. Can't get so pouty just because the shoe's on the other foot this year. I appreciate the work that's getting done--& have little empathy for the whining about no breaks, it's so busy, & it's Christmas!

I'm hoping the (very lame) sound bytes of the likes of Lindsey Graham & John McCain will come back to haunt them in coming months. Graham, who is crowding to the front of the line as a prominent face for the 112th, comes off as a bullying rich kid who knows his big brother (aka the newly elected) will be walking in the door soon so he can say whatever he feels like & 'you can't hit me'. Wanna bet?  If these guys don't, your tea-partying 'big brother' likely will. I think he better quit while he's behind:  he keeps predicting 'this won't pass'--and then it does (whatever the it is at the moment). Like herding cats, huh bubba? Just wait for the next session! Besides looking like he's leading from the back of the train, his personal position on things like the New START Treaty are a complete about-face. Which is it, Lindsey?  What you said last summer or this month?! You know we do listen...

Then there's the homophobe from Arizona that just looks old & broken.  For months he's been saying 'we just need to wait for' one more thing on Don't Ask, Don't Tell.  We need to wait for the survey of the members of the military.  We need to wait for the report from the joint chiefs. Turns out we needed to wait until the cows come home, as Uncle John now says we have to wait until we're no longer in an active war theater. Can we just lean him in the corner & let him nap until it's time for him to go stump for Sarah?

And one more thing.  Would someone please get John Boehner on some meds?  We're really trying to adjust to the skin-color-not-compatible-with-life but this impromptu crying has just got to stop. It's not a trump card to keep playing whilly-nilly when you're gonna be the new Speaker, okay John?  (I think Mrs. B. would be relieved, too. When Leslie Stahl asked about the tears in interview she just sighs, shrugs, & says 'he's always been like that'. Great. Now she tells us! No wonder she stays in Ohio...)

So buck up, boys, it turns out the duck isn't so lame after all!
Rest up. It's gonna be an interesting ride to 2012. (Are you crying?!)