Edd Wins a “Suck It”!
Friends, maybe it’s the invigorating chill in the air…maybe it’s what Fitzgerald would call that familiar feeling that life is beginning over again with the summer…maybe it’s the fact that Sam has gotten a lot of sleep lately. I’ll leave that question to wiser minds that my own. But I’m feeling optimistic. I’m encouraged by the fact that when the laptop closes for the evening, I don’t have to worry about gangs of machete-wielding, grenade-throwing, saber-wearing government thugs kicking down my door and hauling my sorry ass off into the night. True though it may be that democratically elected government often behaves in silly ways, it is the best of all possible solutions, and I am glad to not face one of the unseemlier alternatives.
And that, friends, is why I’m giving Edd O’Donnell over at Quorum Report a “Suck It” award.
Direct your attention–only for a moment–at his little story about how the more things change the more they stay the same. Wade through the well-worn cynicism that he displays. Note that he represents one type of Capitol troll…the political pundit who has seen it all, heard it all, and cannot be won over by anything approaching hope.
I don’t know Edd (no, that’s not a spelling error). He may be a fine man and a good Texan. But his writing reeks of tired, woebegone tirades against people who see politics as something more than just “bloodsport,” in his words. Typically, this sort of sad-ass will chuckle knowingly and then sadly shake his/her head at anyone who dares to believe that the politics of today may carry in it the kernel of something better for tomorrow. In their worst moments, with full eyes over empty glasses, they’ll tell you all about how they too once thought that politics could affect change but after vast experience, they now know better.
Horseshit to these people. They’re miserable company and depressing to be around. I weep for their spouses and children.
So to you Edd, I sound a barbaric “suck it.” Take your grim self elsewhere. We’re all stocked up around the Capitol right now.