crap, got a call from Con Ed that my behind needs to be around at the crown heights place so they can check the freaking meters. is this a routine thing?
In the next presidential election, I would seriously consider voting for any candidate who would end the current charade known as the State of the Union address, regardless of their party or other positions.
The Consitution calls for the President to make an annual report on the State of the Union to the Congress. Up until Woodrow Wilson, this report was made in writing, which is appropriate. LBJ then moved it to the prime-time evening, making it the poliitical spectacle that it has become.
Is anything meaningful said at this spectacle, or the follow-on opposition party reply? It has become a campaign pep rally. So tiresome. The President makes a campaign pitch “Tonight I am calling for the congress to do “X”” The members of the President’s party get up from their seats and applaud, the opposition party just sits there, the brain-dead media counts the number of applauses. The same thing happens when the opposition party representative speaks.
For mind-numbing, scripted political theater , the only thing worse are the party conventions.
“my behind needs to be around at the crown heights place so they can check the freaking meters. is this a routine thing?”
Not if he uses a rectal thermometer.
m4l, I think they start to get on your case if there hasn’t been an actual reading by them in 6 months.
If the unions weren’t such a problem, we’d have remote reading here. And NO, NATIONAL GRID, I’M NOT PAYING FOR THE INSTALL.
By daveinbedstuy on January 24, 2011 1:11 PM
benson, I hope it doesn’t block out “House” tonight.
Amen
not a problem benson if you don’t watch TV.
crap, got a call from Con Ed that my behind needs to be around at the crown heights place so they can check the freaking meters. is this a routine thing?
benson, I hope it doesn’t block out “House” tonight.
Especially the horny rimmed kind.
In the next presidential election, I would seriously consider voting for any candidate who would end the current charade known as the State of the Union address, regardless of their party or other positions.
The Consitution calls for the President to make an annual report on the State of the Union to the Congress. Up until Woodrow Wilson, this report was made in writing, which is appropriate. LBJ then moved it to the prime-time evening, making it the poliitical spectacle that it has become.
Is anything meaningful said at this spectacle, or the follow-on opposition party reply? It has become a campaign pep rally. So tiresome. The President makes a campaign pitch “Tonight I am calling for the congress to do “X”” The members of the President’s party get up from their seats and applaud, the opposition party just sits there, the brain-dead media counts the number of applauses. The same thing happens when the opposition party representative speaks.
For mind-numbing, scripted political theater , the only thing worse are the party conventions.
“I’d like to hold his glasses tight to my face.”
You just love making a spectacle of yourself…