THE CAPITOL HILL FOLLIES SHOW
(….a little song….a little dance….a little seltzer….in your pants!)

The latest development on Capitol Hill about the debt limit crisis appears to have reached the moment when a little bit of make-believe compromising is made to sound like real bi-partisanship.

It’s all because, while everyone else was posturing and maneuvering for a most advantageous political position in the coming 2012 elections, six senators have been quietly holed up in a back room for the past six months thrashing out ways and means to find a workable solution for our fiscal and budgetary problems. And now that they’ve come up with something that everyone can swallow ( even while holding their political noses to do so), everyone, including the White House of course, are doing their best to jump on their bandwagon of resolution….flimsy as it might be.

It’s not that the – Gang-of-Six –, as they’ve been tagged, has come up with any radical changes to our cockamaimee tax, spend, and borrowing practices. Far from it,  but, they are a distinguished crew of mostly senior senators with the maturity and political smarts to know how to produce something that  will be able to worm its way through the legislative ideological barricades that normally block anything resembling common sense moves in the Congress. For that alone….they deserve our plaudits.

Of course, the measures that they’re proposing are just palliatives, a form of symptomatic medicine rather than offering up any kind of cure. It’s a face saving band-aid to stabilize the crisis of the moment. Well, something is better than nothing, I suppose, but to expect real changes to the way our tax dollars are managed up there, on Capitol Hill, is wishful thinking.

So what does it all mean, Alfie? Well, Alfie, what it means is that the Capitol Hill Follies show is giving you a little song….a little dance….a little seltzer….in your pants….to make you believe they’ve accomplished something….even when they haven’t.

As for 2012, even a smartass beagle might do better by us….he sure as hell couldn’t do any worse!

CENTURION