You’re dreaming. As the debt ceiling matter ramps-up, the Rancid Media will equate Boehner with a cannibalistic child- molester. Boehner will cry, wet his pants, and let Obama have whatever he wants. Sometimes I wish that congressmen caning one another on the floor and shooting one another in duels was a better system.
Sometimes I wish that congressmen caning one another on the floor and shooting one another in duels was a better system. I have recently come around to the thought that duels were beneficial for society. It kept people (mainly men) on their toes, in that:
- you had to watch what you said and how you said it (promoted fore-thought);
- kept thoughts of honor and what it meant in the foreground (made one think about what was said and why);
- kept people civil in interactions with each other, particularly with people they were in disagreement with ("dissing" someone could have lethal consequences);
- was a sort of an Occam's razor on what was important and what could be passed over or ignored (let one focus on what was actually important);
- made you responsible for what you said, and you had to be prepared back it up with decisive action (i.e. you had to put your "money" where your mouth put you);
- and, finally it is a legal way to "deal with" people who really tax you and disrupt your life, and get a bit of satifaction at the same time (assuming you win the duel).
Ah, yearning for the "simple" life of the past...