Government shutdown is downright embarrassing
Jan 22, 2018, 5:58 AM | Updated: 5:58 am
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leads a news conference of female Democrats on Day 2 of the federal shutdown at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
I sense that this latest government shutdown has left many of you feeling not only frustrated but a little bit embarrassed.
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The idea that government agents would start going house-to-house deporting 700,000 English-speaking tax-paying citizens who voluntarily registered to be able to stay here legally seems crazy.
The idea that the government would cut off health care for low-income children seems equally crazy.
For all this to happen because the president can’t decide what kind of border wall he wants – it makes it hard to believe that your country is actually a superpower. Instead of striking fear into our enemies, it’s striking fear into mostly ordinary people minding their own business.
But politicians pay attention to polls. And that’s where the 1,200 people come in. That number is the typical sample size for issues polls. I don’t know which 1,200 of you will get called, but some of you will get called, and if that phone rings, I hope you’ll just unload. I hope you will launch into a tirade about how you’re tired of being embarrassed and about how it’s time for us to act like the beacon of liberty and decency and intellectual sobriety that we’re supposed to be.
Tell them that the shutdown nicknames are stupid, that you want your elected representatives to cooperate, and until they do you’re not answering any more poll questions.
I don’t know if it’ll make a difference but it’s better than throwing a shoe at the TV.
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