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9.03.2003
He's so Heavy Today for a brief moment during lunch I watched a press conference by Sen. Tom Harkin promoting his Amendment to a Bush proposal that would change the overtime rules. The new rules would expand the definitions of some jobs to allow them to be exempt from overtime requirements. I watched with an odd mixture of repsect and scorn for Harkin. On one hand I thought he was doing the right thing, standing up for worker protections and stopping what I see as a clearly harmful proposal. On the other I thought to myself "Let the bastards hang themselves out to dry, why do you have to go and save their asses?" Sure enough he'll stop this awful proposal (that umm... nobody was asking for?) and nothing too bad will happen. Bush gets of scott free. The economy may indeed recover due in thanks to the hard work of other people to negate the effects of Bush's runaway spending and reckless tax cutting. Bush gets the credit for handing out free money and taking out Saddam Hussein, while teachers deal with larger class loads, states make due with less and thousands of soldiers work their asses off to keep Iraq from turing into a quagmire. Its called shifting the responsibility, making others be the "heavy" or the "spoilsport", making them clean up the mess and do the unpopular things that need to be done. Like when one parent has to "lay down the law" because the other refuses to be seen as the mean parent. We're a little like the kids of a divorced couple, with the republicans playing the cool dad that always gives us expensive gifts and takes us places mom would never approve of. While the mom has to work two jobs to make up for delinquent child support, never gets to buy us cool stuff and never lets us stay out late. When watching coverage of Iraq I feel extremely frustrated. This was an instance where Bush got what he wanted despite the desperate warnings of people that knew better. Of course, now its getting messier and messier each day as we learn that the rosy predictions of our easy mission in Iraq turned you to be nothing more than the demented fantasy of Donald Rumsfeld. But I can't feel happy about being right. People are dying. I've run into several young men who were getting their things ready for tours in Afghanistan or Iraq. They are the ones paying the price. Not me, not Bush and not any of the squaking war hawks that bought the pipe dream being pandered before the invasion. Bush gets to let go of the wheel of a speeding car, and when somebody else grabs the wheel and steers us back on the road, he just smiles and says "see, nothing bad happened, re-elect me for president!" What a jerk. | |
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