I'm just a little afraid you won't get the votes. So it might be better to go for some sort of compromise.
It's true. It's not looking like it's going to be the bountiful election season for Democrats this year, like it was when the country handed over the keys to the Senate, the House, and the Oval office so we could take on those bipartisanship hating republicans and tackle one of the most challenging times in history. So the votes may not be forthcoming. Sure, I'd love to have you all back again to do - just the really great legislative work you've been doing. But it might be better to get what we can get, rather than sit around and wring our hands about what we WISHED we had.
And President Obama? Oh boy. I would REALLY love to vote for you this coming Presidential Election cycle. But the last thing in the world I want is to be accused of crying because I didn't get a pony.
Bipartisnahip, you taught me, is the single most important thing. And our biggest job is making those bastard, bill killing republicans understand what good friends we are. So when it comes time to vote, I will remember that lesson. And who knows, maybe what you've taught will finally sink in when I go to pull that lever.
You congress people? I really want to thank you for killing the filibuster. Oh, I know it's not really dead. But thank goodness, in my 52 years I've never actually had to see one! I've never flipped on C Span and said, "Jeez, when is THAT guy gonna shut up?" Because thanks to the way we do business, no one actually has to filibuster to completely kill bills upon which peoples' live hang. Why, all a body has to do is THREATEN to filibuster, and that's enough to thoroughly scare the ever loving piss out of each and every single one of you, apparently. Why HAVE the filibuster, when we can just give the Filibusterer what he or she is asking for and avoid wasting all that precious legislative agenda time.
True, I might even be able to see why you are all such Filibusterfobes if I actually had to sit through the process ....... EVEN ONCE ......... to see for myself why it horrifies you so. So I guess you're just looking out for my best interest in protecting me from it. Protecting me from the grueling ........ um ........ politican talking.
And thereupon you protect me from unemployment benefit extension. You protect me from a public option in Health Care Reform. You protect me from closing Guantanamo. You protect me from ripping up that dreadful piece of shit, The US Patriot Act that your predecessor wrote so he could spy on Americans and arrest people without warrants. And now it looks like you're going to protect me from actually doing something about Too Big To Fail Banks.
I am so grateful, I just want to get my shoes on and rush right down to the nearest polling location and vote for you all a thousand times!
Oh, I hear you. You're saying, "never mind how other people are going to vote. If you think it's the right thing to vote for a democrat then YOU DO IT. You don't ask questions. You JUST DO IT. And you never stop until the democrat is voted in, because THAT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO. And I know you're right. But ..... tsk. There's that pesky threat that other people might vote for the opponant and ... well ... that's just going to make me look like an idiot!
I really wish I could.
But I'm just afraid you won't get the votes.
So I'm open to hearing anyone's thoughts on what a good compromise might be.
(Fortunately ... there's still plenty of time for you, Harry, and you, Senators, and you, Mr. President ... to confess that what the side who is trying to kill your legislation thinks is not as important as doing the right thing. And perhaps by next fall, we'll just be putting all this "can't get the vote" nonsense behind us).