Wonks and wabbits

WONKS AND WABBITS
by Justin Other Smith

This’s my ‘good’ week......I feel...well, not really good but pretty okay and that’s better than a jab in the eye with a sharp stick. Feeling good is a kind’a relative thing anyway. I feel better now than I did last week and I’ll feel even better as the week progresses.
One of the side effects of feeling better (and I don’t know f’sure if it’s good or bad) is that I begin paying more attention to the news, both on teevee and in our sad excuse for a newspaper, and since I get bored with talking and thinking about the big C, I tho’t I’d relieve my boredom with a little talk about wonks and wabbits.
Wonks, of course, are the pundits and public relations people whose job is to either build up or tear down the wabbits. And the ‘wabbits’ of course, are those people who run to the front of the parade so that they may be seen to be leaders.
Now everyone knows that the person who actually leads the big parade is the Drum Major (or Majorette) who might or might not have gender identity issues and is desperately seeking acceptance.
That said, I found myself p’ticklarly struck by the statements by the League of Nobody knows better than the Liberal Elitists when they blamed everybodys favorite doormat, George W. (Shrub) Bush for not tightening the leash on Musharraf. Poor Ol Shrub, darned if he do, darned if he don’t....if he sticks his nose into another countrys business, he’s damned for intervening in another States affairs. And if he doesn’t intervene in Pakistan, then he’s damned for ......, wait! I’m getting confused. Again.
If we can get an equal number of candidates from the Dems and the Repubs, and then maybe an equal number from the Indies and the Libertarians and then give them all matching funds so they could politick around the world, would those matching funds match the funds for the military?
Sure would make for an interesting debate if anyone would watch it. Of course, I s’poze they could always pay an audience. Congress could create a fund called ‘Bread and Circuses’ to fund the candidates (and their audiences) and there’d be no need to actually elect a President. We could just go on and on, ad infinitum. ad nauseum. Limbo and Nirvana.
“Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.” The Queen in Wonderland.