Fair and balanced?

Someone on a cable news show or perhaps an article I read in the last few days — I don’t remember who — said that one needs a libretto to follow the goings on with Congress and the debt ceiling crisis. For those of you who don’t know what a libretto is, yes some folks are operatically deprived, it is the text of an opera or other type of musical theater. That is a highfalutin’ way of expressing the more common saying: “You can’t tell the players without a program,” which also applies to opera. Opera shopura. Any way one wants to look at matters what is happening in Congress now is mostly a clusterf**k.

Why matters are so screwed up that it even has Fox News doing more than paying lip service to their “fair and balanced” motto by pointing out some really astute analysis of why proposing a Balanced Budget Amendment into the mix with the debt ceiling legislation is not the best of moves. Personally, I’m against such an amendment even though I am for a balanced budget. I just happen to believe that changes to the U.S. Constitution should be for matters that we likely couldn’t attain for ourselves if the federal government did not intervene, matters such as ending slavery or giving women the right to vote. You mean women can vote?

Once again federal beneficiaries and employees face the possibility of not being paid if Congress fails to meet a deadline, and quite frankly, I am kind of fed up with such possibilities.

Congress, at large, needs to get their ducks in the water. That includes all parties. President Obama needs to shape up as well. He is becoming a big disappointment.

I am tired from my drive back from San Antonio this afternoon so I will just leave matters alone here and hope some improvement comes along just as did the rain to our drought-stricken land.