September 29, 2008

• Nancy Pelosi Made me Do It …

  When I was a child my dad had one of those “Aesop’s Fable” type stories about a man who was asked by a neighbor if he’d loan him his lawnmower.  The man said, “I’d love to, but my flowers need to be watered.”  The neighbor said, “What does that have to do with the lawnmower?”  And the man answered, “Nothing, but when you don’t want to do something one excuse is as good as another.”

  As children, we got that.  Occasionally we’d offer up some ridiculous excuse or another and the family would all laugh and say, “When you don’t want to do something …” 

  Well, today, we saw grown-up men offering something just as ridiculous as “my flowers need to be watered” as their excuse for voting a particular way.

  Now, I’m not going to say that I think they should have voted yes or no, but I will say that regardless of your vote, you should be grown-up enough to offer something a little better than “Nancy made me do it” as your excuse.  I rolled my eyes so hard I got a headache. 

  I wouldn’t accept that nonsense from my children and would be likely to say, “If you didn’t like what Nancy said, would you jump off a bridge?” to make the point with them that responsible people don’t blame others for their thoughts, behavior, and feelings.  To the cowardly Congressmen who went on national television with that tripe I say, “Go read Profiles in Courage and give me a 1500 word essay on what it means to take responsibility.”

  idiots

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