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Our tax dollars at work!
So there was an election last week, you may have heard. Kinda’ a big story. And the Democrats won back both the House and the Senate, right? Now, this certainly wasn’t a mandate for the Democrat agenda, by any stretch of the imagination, but I’d say it was a statement that the same ol’ same ol’ isn’t what folks want any more. And has that message been heard loud and clear? Turns out, not so much.
It would seem that several Senators think that the most pressing issue right now is the NFL. Now look - don’t get me wrong - I love football as much as the next guy (in fact, I probably love it considerably more than the next guy). But is it really necessary for California Senator Dianne Feinstein to be focusing her energies on considering whether or not to get a bill going that would help prevent the Niners from leaving San Francisco? Hell, has she even seen that team play since the Montana/Young years? If it were me, I’d be begging those good-for-nothings to get the hell out.
Meanwhile, not to be outdone by a lefty Dem, the-not-for-much-longer head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Arlen Spector, is getting into the football frey as well. His issue du jour? The NFL Network’s intention to start showing live games: “We’re intrigued, to put it mildly, what [sic] the NFL has in mind.” Now, I’m actually not much a fan of this whole games-on-the-NFL-Network business either: (a) the NFL Network isn’t HD yet (at least, on my cable system), meaning I’ll have to suffer those games in standard low-quality format; and (b) my parents don’t have cable, so I won’t be able to see the third Thanksgiving game which is going to be exclusively on the NFL Network. But complaints aside, is it really necessary for the frickin’ Senate Judiciary Committee to get its panties in an immediate bunch over the matter? So worked up over it, in fact, that there was a 90-minute grill session about it? Seriously?
Can we have another election with a single, simple ballot initiative? “Should our government employees stop fucking around and get to work on some shit that matters?” I’m guessing the final tally won’t be nearly as close as some of last week’s elections.
