Shakespeare’s character, Dick the Butcher, said that in Henry VI, part two. I would never say such a thing.
Well, not all of them, at least. On one floor is our law firm of Probe, Prod and Plod.
Down the hall is their law partnership of Poppycock, Balderdash and Hogwash. It’s all gotten worse since they merged with Zeal and Zest. And they are affiliated with Dewey, Cheatem & Howe.*
We brought in Pluck and Spunk which certain Congressman took up but not the Attorney General. Not yet, anyway.
Why is it that Hogwash, Balderdash and partners are shameless in their audacity to lie, threaten and push for legislation which violates every tenet of fair play? When did bullying become the new norm? Probably when they brought on Phil Abuster and Jerry Mander, graduates of Cutthroat University.
All this is happening while our side pokes and prowls following a playbook no longer viable. Temerity is met by timidity. While they plunder we ponder.
It appears to me that our methodical deliberations are both our means and our ends. We are congruent. It comes naturally to an ethical, rational mind.
They are desperate, unthinking dudes lusting for power and heedless of compassion, civility, and the institutions we have long cherished. Naked greed was bad enough but now it is advertised as if a virtue.
Freedom is not license. We are not a confederation but a nation. Government’s role is not to suppress but to protect us from unregulated corporate avarice and extend support for the underserved. Let us proceed with Zest and Zeal along with Pluck and Spunk.
Leo Durocher, that infamous baseball manager, once quipped, Nice guys finish last. Say it ain’t so.
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