"Listening Rhetorically" aka School Funding Tales

by: Jay Lassiter

Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 10:52:24 PM EST

Senator Nia Gill

I'm kinda miffed but if I don't post while it still burns, I'll go soft.  And sometimes going squishy is a lame response.

Take today's marathon Soviet-style Senate session on Trenton for instance.   Honestly, I was like watching someone putting socks on a rooster.  In slow motion.  

I guess what's so upsetting is that it's hard to watch people you know and admire behave in a way that feels antithetical to the spirit of democracy.

(Note to all who voted this bill down our throats: you might be a teeny bit sore from all that arm twisting and parliamentary gymnastics.  I know I would be.)

Some votes we win and some we lose.  We're all big kids.  But what makes this school funding snafu different is it kinda violates all sense of fairplay along the way.

If this is what sausage making looks like, then color me vegetarian. 

(Alternate ending:  if this is what sausage making is all about, then I've seen my last sausage party.)