Shortly after the 2015 Montana House voted to end the session today, things broke down.
I suppose you could say that they’d already broken down well before them, but if you were to look on Twitter, you’d see that they’d really broken down. It was fun to watch!
I suppose you could say that they’d already broken down well before them, but if you were to look on Twitter, you’d see that they’d really broken down. It was fun to watch!
I was really active, throwing tweets out left and right. That pisses a lot of people off, and again, this is fun to watch. It’s fun to watch people blow gaskets and fuck up. The best is when you can get a public figure to do that, or one of their staff. Then they’ve got a mess on their hands, and sometimes that can even lead to resignations, or at least a real hold-back on funding for the next election.
Politicians are dogs on leashes, and you hold that leash. You hold it when you vote, and you hold it when you choose to give money to their campaign. They send you a bit of that leash in the mail, and if you donate, they send you more. The Koch Brothers have lots of leashes, and they’re tight and the dogs on the other end react quickly.
So you saw a lot of that today, but more along the lines of what you’d see at a horse race. People are shouting at their picks, waving their tickets, and really letting you know that they’ve got some money on this. So when you see things descend into chaos on Twitter, that’s all that really is – fans urging their horse on, while at the same time browbeating the other horses, and fans thereof.
It’s complicated, but no one ever said politics was going to be easy. Well, it can be easy, you just need a lot of money, and that tight leash in your hand. But if you don’t have that, you have to do a bit more work…like we saw today.
Politicians are dogs on leashes, and you hold that leash. You hold it when you vote, and you hold it when you choose to give money to their campaign. They send you a bit of that leash in the mail, and if you donate, they send you more. The Koch Brothers have lots of leashes, and they’re tight and the dogs on the other end react quickly.
So you saw a lot of that today, but more along the lines of what you’d see at a horse race. People are shouting at their picks, waving their tickets, and really letting you know that they’ve got some money on this. So when you see things descend into chaos on Twitter, that’s all that really is – fans urging their horse on, while at the same time browbeating the other horses, and fans thereof.
It’s complicated, but no one ever said politics was going to be easy. Well, it can be easy, you just need a lot of money, and that tight leash in your hand. But if you don’t have that, you have to do a bit more work…like we saw today.
Then things began to turn around. At about 1:30 some members of the Senate began to question the rationality of going home without a statewide infrastructure bill, and the jobs it would create, the money it’d put into local communities. Tweets began to fly yet again:
And then there it was – the Senate would be coming back tomorrow to figure out what to do, and that would give the House the rest of the day to figure out what to do too!
Oh, Lord be praised! It looks as though all of our problems will be solved and they will be solved tomorrow, starting at 7 AM. Thank you, Jesus, thank you.
Oh, Lord be praised! It looks as though all of our problems will be solved and they will be solved tomorrow, starting at 7 AM. Thank you, Jesus, thank you.
