Rampaging Eloquence
We need some Ukrainians in the U.S. Senate. They would know how to respond when chronic liars and obstructionists get up to belch forth yet another toxic cloud of fact-free flatulence.
This week in the Ukrainian parliament, a fight broke out over a gas deal with the Russians. No, I don’t mean an argument — a fight — fisticuffs, head-butts, even a few smoke bombs. Then they started throwing eggs — really whaling them. We need some Ukrainians on the pitching staff of the Pittsburgh Pirates, too.
Government ministers held up black umbrellas to shield themselves from the eggs. Others vanished in clouds of smoke from the bombs.
I know some Ukrainian Americans who would make splendid Senators. Mitch McConnell would cower in the coat room. Lobbyists would quake in their boots at the prospect of having to offer the Ukrainians egg money.
But I keep wondering – why did those Ukrainian parliament members have all those eggs with them? Do they always carry some around, just in case? And why did the ministers have umbrellas at the speaker’s table?
Couldn’t have been Ukrainian Easter, could it – rabbit punches and Easter eggs? Whatever it was, it was not very dignified, but then we should be the last to criticize.
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Ah for the good old days, when legislators merely hurled epithets an threw tantrums. Seems somewhat pale by comparison.
Comment by Steve Alber — May 2, 2010 @ 7:42 pm