CSotD: Of mayflies, retractions, good manners and political cartoons
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The amazement, incredulity and puzzlement over the possibility of compromise should have been a clue that this tiny opening wasn't going to last long enough to slip a cartoon through it. But I like Pat Oliphant's talent for the jugular and his ability to use funny pictures to create an unfunny effect.
And, on a political level, I don't think Boehner's reversal on what had sounded like a sensible comment should necessarily mean putting the hounds back in their kennels. There is math at work here: First, the math to figure out who is making how much and then the math to figure out that nobody can get elected with three percent of the vote. But it would be rude to start singing "Which Side Are You On?" in the middle of an election cycle, wouldn't it? Someone might accuse you of being on the side of the working class, and we wouldn't want to have to deal with that.
As long as good manners rule the day, you'll never win over the guys with the bucket perched on the door and the swarms of tiny thugs with baseball bats waiting to do their worst. Did anybody really think there was something else behind that door?
I don't expect to hear much about this whole issue, however. Now that the Koran has been saved from burning, we really need to devote the bulk of our news coverage to the sportswriter who might have had mean things said to her but says that, in fact, she didn't really, and, if she did, she didn't notice and didn't care. Priorities, priorities!
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