Ladies, Light Your Fuses
I see the League of Women Voters is marking its 90th anniversary.
How do you celebrate something like that?
Firecrackers? A cake with nine candles – or ninety? Nine kinds of icing?
Surely some sort of skywriting is called for. Something to recognize the virtue of patience – ribbons on a tree, perhaps, or a votive candle. Members of the League have worked for 90 years to encourage a better informed electorate, and how is their perseverance rewarded?
Inhofe, Coburn, Demint, Kyl, Vitter, and Cornyn in the Senate? Newt Gingrich, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachman, Sharron Angle, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Sarah Palin, and the Tea Party? That’s their return on investment?
I knew some League members when I was writing for newspapers. They were very nice, reasonable and well informed, though perhaps a bit too polite. Not like the Suffragettes of an earlier day who would break a picket sign over your head.
In these days of flagrant frauds and tabby-cat news media, we may need a League of Torch-Bearing, Taser-Wielding, Pie-in-the Face of Every Public Liar, Raging Furies and Twittering Tattle-Tales.
For every lying, hypocritical posturer betraying the American voter, there’s a woman in his or her life who could tell us what’s really been going on behind the public facade.
Come to think of it, we could also use an activist Ladies Auxiliary of the CIA.