Not surprisingly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't keen on Lamb's letter. Read it here. I wish I knew more about Photoshop so I could replace departed '50s '60s TV puppeteer Shari Lewis with Nancy's head. Live In Color... Here's what Wonkette - the DC blog that makes Chickaboomer look like Jerry Falwell's religious musings from beyond - snarks: "Well we’re a democracy, folks, and it’s pretty (if not quite scientifically) clear what the people — erudite Fox News website readers, all of them — want. They want to watch some fuckin’ conference comittee negotiatrix dealy-do humdingers on the C-SPAN, whatever channel that is. (Is that what Spike TV becomes after 2 a.m.?) And they want to watch all of them, all of the bill talkie-talks, that is. Give Fox News fans their C-SPAN access, and they’ll watch those clerks tediously edit adverbs in incomprehensible legislative language for at least 14 full seconds before throwing each other’s feces against the wall and ripping out their hair in search of gold."
Will Pelosi demand The Silence Of The Lamb? Stay tuned...
but Shari Lewis was the sweetest lady on earth. she made millions of kids happy way back when. and she died way too young.
ReplyDeleteif the Dems were smart they would boot Nancy Pelosi out of the speakers chair. but they are stupid and will go down in flames in 2010
Wonkette is, as usual, completely missing the concern. Sorry, the fuc**** concern. There.
ReplyDeleteThe question is not whether every American gets to watch this laborious process. Most of us neither have the time or knowledge to discern the arcane legislative process.
It's having the people who do know this business, who do know the issues, who do know the esoterica of legislation having access and reporting to us what is taking place.
No joke. The first woman that every excited me was Shari Lewis. As a little kid there was something so sexy about her and I was 7 years old at the time!
ReplyDeleteWhen I learned she died I said a prayer for her.
"Shariland, that's the place to be,
We can spend an hour there happily"
Vinney
Wonkette writes like a guy... but the words chosen by her betray a knowledge that the "change we can believe in" is really nothing more than the statement "There has never been a more open process for any legislation..." being spoken by Mr. Subliminal.
ReplyDeleteOpenness is an ideal goal, but if you're really into passing something, regardless of what, then this will just push members into mindless posturing and away from meaningful compromise. Of course, not passing something might be a better option sometimes.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Wonkette misses the point about promised transparency in government. The powers that be don't want you to see the corrupt negotiating and horse-trading.
ReplyDeleteShari Lewis died in 1998. Her daughter Molly took over as puppeteer. Shari's real name was Phyllis Hurwitz. Her Dad founded Yeshiva U in NYC.
I admit it. I always had the hots for Shari, too. And Annette Funicello. Did they ever jello-wrestle?
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