Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Reading not required

I'm considering getting into politics. Maybe run for a U.S. Congressional seat. Maybe become a Czar. The job responsibilities are cush. And the pay is excellent. Plus, you get comped healthcare, retirement, and then there are all those lobbyists around to take you to dinner.
In fact, you don't even need to be able to read. Not anything. Not even bills.

The recent Cap & Trade Bill, the largest tax increase in history recently passed in the House, hasn't been read, it seems, by anyone. Not Congress, because the bill wasn't submitted when the vote was taken. Not even Obama's Energy Czar.

Steve Doocey on Fox and Friends this morning asked her one question, "Have you read the bill?" And she found it unfair.



So it seems there are absolutely no requirements to hold down a government job. Geez. Sign me up. In the private sector, they actually expect talent and ability, hard work and even results. If you are out promoting a Cap & Trade bill, I can assure you those mean capitalists in the private sector would demand you actually read it.
1,000 pages. Yeah, reading all that is too much to ask for the Energy Czar. And to think, this spring I voluntarily read 1,168 pages of Atlas Shrugged.

3 comments:

Jason Michael Parrish said...

Women can't becomes Czars. They can become Czarinas.

Or, they can become Tsarinas.

If you take dancing lessons, you can become Tarina Czarina the Ruling Ballerina.

If you marry Tarzan, you could call yourselves. . .perhaps you should answer that.

Tara Lynn Thompson said...

And if you were politically independent, as well as married to Tarzan, you could become:
Czatherine Tarzanian the tree swinging Liberanian.

Jason Michael Parrish said...

That sounds too much like an actual Eastern European woman with a good amount of facial hair who henpecks her husband for not keeping enough coal in the stove.

I think she drives a Yugo or a Prius.