Zebra Butts and Congress: a lot in common
Watching Congress lately reminds me all too much of the stampeding zebras of the movie Madagascar2: thousands of indistinguishable striped asses (scuse moi Francais) would take to flight in a perfect symphony to escape whatever danger, or get safely (under the cover of the horde/herd) to whatever goal they wanted. Sometimes they just did it for fun!
Curious why I am so reminded? Well, picture this:
Remember how, just a few weeks ago, they (Congress) were tasked with putting together a “stimulus bill”, a humongous trillion-dollar spending spree that was to save the world economy.
The lion was at the door here (no doors in the jungle), bloody fangs bared, said the Great Whi… well, American Hunter Obama, and we were all gonna die if he didn’ have the biggest gun ever invented! Soooo Madagascar. Any way, whoulda thought that they, the herd of Striped Butts we all know (lovingly, of course) as the Congress, and the smaller older herd of similar butts (you know, the Senate) could ever get anything done in a hurry. But were we surprised! Maybe it was the fear struck by the Hunter/Leader Obama, but whatever, the Striped Butts ran that bill through the jungle so fast, there was nothing but a dizzying swirl of black and white camoflage leaving us wondering what it was. And we still don’t what they really did. Nobody knows! As the latest show of zebra choreography reveals!
So what was it that stampeded them like that? Well, they’d just heard that some AIG guys (the hyenas in Madagascar2?) had snuck around their watchful eyes and gotten a little bite of their private stash of greenbacks, which they’d stacked bales and bales of in all sorts of barns and fields. (Actually, the AIG guys got little more than a tiny biteful off one bale - not alfalfa or grass, by the way - stacked in one barn.) Anyway, faster even that the zebras of Madagascar, the Striped Butts of Washington swirled into action and passed their “Vengeance is Mine Bill” to force the AIG guys to vomit back their little nibble of green. (I’ve been told I should say “regurgitate”, cuz it’s nicer, when it’s the the IRS serving as emetic, I think ”vomit” is accurate)
You ought watch Madagascar2 (honest, I own no stock in it, and have no vested interest beyond a lot of fun … and I own a DVD of it) if you haven’t already. You’ll enjoy it, and probably understand a lot more about our Congress. In fact, all of Capitol Hill! Madagascar2 could be nominated as a rather arty documentary, or used in schools as a civics teaching, perhaps!
