Do you follow politics?
Do you watch wrestling or seen ads for the WWE?
I haven't always been one that followed politics. To be honest, I pretty much listened with one ear and voted "my gut" at election time. An interest in politics for me started in the fall of 2008. I was working from home, alone, so I'd have CNN on the tube while I worked. Daytime TV didn't offer a lot so it was CNN or Comedy Central. CNN got tiring to watch because they would be talking about the same stories at 4:00 in the afternoon that they were talking about at 7:30 in the morning. I turned to listening to KIRO radio while I worked. They have different view points and discussed the topics of the day. They were pretty good but not as entertaining as The Daily Show.
I did follow wrestling when I was younger, being in the South and having TBS was very entertaining! I could go on for hours on the plots and sub-plots acted out by skilled and loud-mouthed athletes. This dates me, but most of my favorite wrestlers where close to retirement by the time Hulk Hogan came on the scene. Heck, Jerry "The King" Lawler was just a kid. That guy is still at it though, he is the living version of "The Wrestler!".
OK, back to the point. It seems to me that the WWE is more believable and credible than the stuff coming out of the mouths of the politicians. It's great that they forget themselves and that we live in the day and age of everything having a video camera strapped to it. At first this seemed like an error in their judgment but now I'm not so sure. It seems the whacker their speech is, the livelier the reaction is. Yes, I am specifically talking about Palin and the Tea Party. These folks have there, "Wrestling Rap" done by golly the do. These are the "dirty" wrestlers, they ones that are not shy about sneaking up from behind and whacking the good guys with a chair. With all due respect to Senator McCain, his roll seemed to be similar to "The mouth of the South"!
One thing as sure as death and taxes in the world of wrestling is that sooner or later the favorite "good guy" wrestler is going to go dirty, switch sides, do his best to agitate the crowd. This was one of the best ways to keep the crowds coming.
It seems to me that some of the politicians are doing the "switch" here in Washington State and in DC. The latest match with the extension of the Bush tax-cuts.
What the hell? Obama is all of a sudden in the other corner drawing the other side into the ambush! This was so much like watching professional wresting in the late '70 and early '80's. The fans new that the dirty guys were planning to gang up on the good guy. The good guy always came out alone with his chest out and head held high just to get jumped and beaten up by the bad guys. Beat up so bad but not bad enough to keep them from their matches coming up this week, see you at the armory!
We pretty much knew that the wrestlers most likely got together after the matches for a few cold ones. Do you think the politicians do that too? It is all a show "for their fans" and all the grand standing is just for show?
Maybe we'd all be happier if the show didn't cost us so much money. Here's a great "Pay per view" idea. Let's put 5 politicians against "Single Payer" in a cage match with 5 politicians for "Single Payer". Winner takes all, only $49.95!
Then again, maybe we just don't need another scripted match where the good guys are beaten by dirty tricks and incompetent referees (ones so bad they could make the right call even with instant replay).
It is getting hard for me to tell the difference between politics and wrestling. Wrestling is more entertaining and unlike politics, most of the time no one gets hurt.
And now for my second thought.
A word of advice to those newly elected politicians. Just because you are elected it doesn't mean that you can pursue every whack-job idea you have. You represent the people, they elected you to represent them. The fact that the elected you does not mean they are behind every whack-job, crack-pot, insane idea you can come up with.
So, if you are a vegetarian it doesn't mean you should be in hot pursuit of legislation to force everyone to be one too. If you have health care provided to you now and think you deserve it because you are more special than anyone else, you are not, you need to pursue health care for everyone.
Has anyone else noticed this trend?
These nut jobs get into office and all of a sudden everything is about their own personal agenda. They don't have the common courtesy to at least pretend they give a shit about those that put them in office. John Boehner can cry on demand with the best of them but I don't buy it. But he does a better job then Glen Beck's sissy snivel.
Take a minute to visit Old iSkool and The Goal Farm too!
I am sticking with this hands-free data-entry device and still would like someone to volunteer to edit this blog. I'm doing the best I can but it's hard to catch my mistakes and all the times the software doesn't understand me.
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