The Republicans had a chance to join Camelot and instead take the boat to Lilliput

grantcart

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Wed Sep-09-09 09:24 PM
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The Republicans had a chance to join Camelot and instead take the boat to Lilliput

Edited on Wed Sep-09-09 09:45 PM by grantcart

The President's speech, part tutorial, part history lesson, also included a headmaster's dressing down for the naughty nasty boys who have been smoking behind the gym.

The strong summary of the whole Health Care Reform will be discussed elsewhere but another story also played out, sometimes in painful detail, were the Republicans who exposed themselves as a group of adolescents in aging chalky white bodies approaching a near cadaver state.

The President, the First Gentleman, with the graceful First Lady, Dr. Biden, and Mrs. Kennedy watching reached out to those who question his nationality and his ability to give school children an innocent pep talk with a friendly, professional and civil tone and an open hand.

Having been offered a seat at King Arthur's round table where civil people talk honestly about their concerns and how to best solve the problems of the people they reperesent, they instead got on a ship and in front of the entire country chose to go to Lilliput instead.

You remember the Jonathan Swift classic where the hero is dispatched from the safety of his ship during a storm and finds himself in a land where people are 1/12th normal size.

It originated as a parable of the smallness of people in government and tonight the Republicans acted it out.

They entered the room already somewhat undersized because of their behavior in August spreading lies directly or accomodating the liars among them.

Then they pretended to be normal size as the President entered the room.

Then the take away shots showed them to be perplexed when to stand and when to sit, and they shrank a little bit more.

The President beckoned them to stop their travel to Lilliput and join them at King's Arthur Table - but they didn't hear him because they were texting their fans with a snide remark, and they shrank a little bit more.

As the President strived to lift the debate with noble traditional American values they were caught looking at each other wondering "should we stand, should we sit? Why won't somebody tell us what we think?" Now they were half their normal size.

The President accurately told them that we cannot add to the deficit and that previously when we went to war or gave the richest big tax breaks we forgot to consider the deficit then. A few missed the signal and stood but the others shrank and now were hard to see.

The President specifically outlined good ideas that Senator McCain and other Republicans had given in the past but when the camera tried to find them it was hard to see the shrinking figures.

When the President reminded us all of our last knight from Camelot and how had reached common ground with McCain, Grassley and Hatch they shifted in their seats and looked almost invisible.

And as the boat taking all of these small, small little people off to their home in Lilliput we could no longer see them but we could only hear the tiniest of them all, some very little person from South Carolina yelling "LIE".