Maggie's Farm

October 19, 2007

Congress needs an intervention

By Kyle-Anne Shriver

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.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/congress_needs_an_intervention.html

GREAT BOOK TITLE.

Nanny State
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, October 19, 2007

Frontpage Interview's guest today is David Harsany
He is the author of the new book:

Nanny State: "How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children."

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Great book title

Nanny State: "How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children."

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=C20D0E0E-25F5-4914-B1AC-8EB2FFB67878