Re: Congress needs an intervention

On Oct 23, 7:15 pm, jose <josefsop...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Congress needs an intervention

By Kyle-Anne Shiver
What in the name of heaven is going on in our Congress? As I sit down
here in Georgia, every now and then taking a C-SPAN glimpse at the
United States Congress in action, I have to remind myself that I'm
indeed watching live, the procedures of the most prestigious law-
making body in the history of civilization and not one of my
grandmother's renowned, fake hissy-fits. Or indeed one of my own.

For those of you who might not be familiar with the female hissy-fit,
I will attempt to define it. As a Southern female, descended from a
long line of Southern belles and femmes fatales, I was myself
perfectly schooled in this necessary tactic in the War Between the
Sexes. It's deceitful; it's underhanded. It's definitely a below-the-
belt kind of weapon. But, as it was explained to me early in life, it
was a most necessary ploy in a world where the male enemy held a
significant power advantage in terms of authority and money. It was
therefore perfectly acceptable.

It works like this: any time you are not getting your way by using
facts and legitimate, reasoned argument, you must overwhelm your male
opponent with unassailable emotional turmoil, i.e. a hissy-fit. In
other words, take the argument to a level that your male adversary
does not comprehend: pure emotion, unencumbered by rational thought.
By purposely becoming irrational, and accusing your opponent of being
"vicious," "mean," "unreasonable," "vile," "cruel," "a bully," et
cetera, et cetera into lingual infinity, you effectively disarm your
utterly reasonable opponent and ride the emotional wave of perfected
guile to victory. In other words, you get your own way in the
matter.

This is precisely the tactic being employed now on a regular basis in
our United States Congress. Much to my dismay, many of the current
Congressional Hissy-Fits are being thrown by men. Whenever a new or
expanded entitlement program is proposed, or there is a debate about
the War, or a new grievance or "hate crime" comes about, we witness a
nationally televised, media-hyped, Democratic Party-endorsed hissy-
fit.

Reason and rational thought are thereby derailed, and emotional deceit
again carries the day -- or at least serves to get a vast number of
the populace held firmer in the grip of emotional blackmail. So, even
if the hissy-fit doesn't work to override the President's veto on the
expansion of the SCHIP program today, it still serves to increase the
emotional capital stored up in American hearts for the next inevitable
battle.

Some Democrats may imagine that one of their heroes, Saul Alinsky, was
the originator of this revolutionary tactic. He does describe it
reasonably well in his socialist-revolution handbook, Rules for
Radicals.

Here it is, right on page 127:

Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy. Here you
want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
This is precisely what wily females have known practically since time
began. By taking an argument to the purely emotional realm, we
understand that we are going "outside the experience" of males, who
nearly always, temper emotion with dispassionate reason. The actual
originator of this tactic, as Alinsky himself notes on the very first
page, is the Deceiver-in-Chief: Lucifer. The first Radical. The
first ends-justify-the-means Revolutionary. And the first Hissy-Fit
Thrower.

In the context of Congress, the "enemy" is any member who does not
agree with you. In the current battle over SCHIP expansion, with
Nancy Pelosi in charge, the enemies are specifically those of the
opposition Party and the President of the United States, who has risen
above the Hissy-fit tactic, and steadfastly refused to become confused
and fearful. He has stood his ground on reason, and vetoed the Bill.
He has not retreated. Good for him.

Perhaps he recognizes the tactic from former confrontations with his
perfectly charming, Southern-bred wife, Laura. How he learned to
recognize the age-old Luciferian trick is beside the point. He sets a
good example for the rest of us in refusing to throw reason upon the
false altar of emotional deceit. Gullibility has never been, nor
should it ever be, an admirable trait.

When the leaders of Congress wish to propose a socialist encroachment
upon another segment of the private economy, it would serve them well
to abandon the tactics of emotionalism and deceit. If they are the
stalwart proponents of the free-will, free-thought democracy that they
incessantly claim to be, then there should never be just cause for the
kind of emotional trickery demonstrated by a parade of the victims of
American "injustice." A straightforward argument based upon sound
reason is what a free people should demand from her leaders. In every
instance.

So please, dear Congress, drop the Hissy-Fit charade, and get back to
business. Every minute you waste with your infernal, female antics is
costing us - the taxpayers - a bundle of our hard-earned dollars.


Something needs to be done with Congress. They refuse to do their
duty and impeach both Bush and Cheney, so what good are they?


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