The Purpose of Turkeyhead
Last week Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank had what you’d call a real turkey head moment. And I mean that in the most positive way.
For those of you who recall, and for those of you who don’t read the subheading, I have called upon the leaders of our country to start being blunt and honest about the idiocy that’s swirling through the country. When Louisiana senator Huey Long called New Orleans Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley a Turkey Head and Walmsley traveled all the way to Washington D.C. to punch Long out (he never got the chance – Long hid from Walmsley an entire week), that’s what I extolled as proper political behavior. None of this mealy-mouth side-speak you hear from politicians today.
Imagine…
The Bush/Kerry debate
BUSH: That's what liberals do. They create government-sponsored health care. Maybe you think that makes sense. I don't.
KERRY: You’re such an idiot.
The Bush/Gore debate
BUSH: I’m absolutely opposed to a national health care plan. I don’t want the federal government making decisions for consumers or for providers.
GORE: Oh my God, you’re such an idiot.
The Clinton/Bush(I)/Perot debate
BUSH(I): Fuel efficiency standards at 40 to 45 miles a gallon will throw many auto workers out of work.
CLINTON: Your son is such an idiot.
PEROT: No doubt.
JIM LEHRER: Seriously.
See how it works? Not only do you feel better, but had either Kerry or Gore used that technique, they would have been elected president (oh, wait – Gore was).
And now they’re starting to get it. Barney Frank laid a beatdown on one of the town hall nuts who had just called a currently proposed health-care policy a “Nazi policy.” That would pretty much make Obama Hitler, which may be a tad extreme (not like calling someone a Turkey Head). To which Frank got off this one-two punch:
“On what planet do you spend most of your time?”
And
“Ma’am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.”
I’m thinking of renaming this blog “Dining Room Table Head.”
For those of you who recall, and for those of you who don’t read the subheading, I have called upon the leaders of our country to start being blunt and honest about the idiocy that’s swirling through the country. When Louisiana senator Huey Long called New Orleans Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley a Turkey Head and Walmsley traveled all the way to Washington D.C. to punch Long out (he never got the chance – Long hid from Walmsley an entire week), that’s what I extolled as proper political behavior. None of this mealy-mouth side-speak you hear from politicians today.
Imagine…
The Bush/Kerry debate
BUSH: That's what liberals do. They create government-sponsored health care. Maybe you think that makes sense. I don't.
KERRY: You’re such an idiot.
The Bush/Gore debate
BUSH: I’m absolutely opposed to a national health care plan. I don’t want the federal government making decisions for consumers or for providers.
GORE: Oh my God, you’re such an idiot.
The Clinton/Bush(I)/Perot debate
BUSH(I): Fuel efficiency standards at 40 to 45 miles a gallon will throw many auto workers out of work.
CLINTON: Your son is such an idiot.
PEROT: No doubt.
JIM LEHRER: Seriously.
See how it works? Not only do you feel better, but had either Kerry or Gore used that technique, they would have been elected president (oh, wait – Gore was).
And now they’re starting to get it. Barney Frank laid a beatdown on one of the town hall nuts who had just called a currently proposed health-care policy a “Nazi policy.” That would pretty much make Obama Hitler, which may be a tad extreme (not like calling someone a Turkey Head). To which Frank got off this one-two punch:
“On what planet do you spend most of your time?”
And
“Ma’am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.”
I’m thinking of renaming this blog “Dining Room Table Head.”
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