“Hello? Spicoli’s Spine Palace, may we help you.”
“Um, yes,…um, this is a little embarrassing but we need to order some backbone, maybe with a side of cojones if you have them.”
“Oh, yes, of course. We keep well stocked in spine and cojones these days. We used to supply quite a bit for Capitol Hill but I guess the recession has lessened the demand.”
“Well…okay, we really need some now. How fast can you send it over?”
“We can fill that order today, sir. To which address?
“Um, yea…um, the Capitol if you don’t mind. The Senate.”
“Ah, yes, I see.”
“And, um, er…don’t tell anybody we called.”
Will we see a “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” moment or will we see the jellyfish return to the nation’s grandest aquarium?
Who the heck knows?
So, let’s see if we have this straight:
The Democrats will force the Republicans to vote against reforming Wall Street if they don’t belly up to the bar and support financial reform.
The lone Senate Republican supporting climate change legislation backed off over the weekend because, he complained, the Democrats want to push immigration reform and that will make him and his fellow Republicans look like racists. (Duh!)
Following, so far?
Good, because the logic is not obvious.
Republican senators (well, Shelby of Alabama) went on the TeeVee Box this morning to say, well, they MIGHT vote to regulate the derivatives trade. Of course, they’ll have to explain to their benefactors why they could suddenly read the hand-writing on the wall and, well, while they like that direct Wall Street-to-Capitol Hill cheese pipeline they really can’t be seen in public with the pillagers.
It’s all so sorted and cynical and, let’s face it, comical if it wasn’t so serious.
As the great philosopher, Jimmy Buffett, once said, “I’d like to be a jellyfish, ‘cause jellyfish don’t pay rent.”
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