If you’re feeling more than a bit groggy today I’ll bet it’s because you listened to Mark Johnson’s radio interview with Eric Davis this morning. It took a double red-eye blast from Capitol Grounds to jolt me from my slumber – and barely.
Johnson – of ain’t we folksy-and-cute WDEV fame – has a thing for Eric Davis, the political science professor from Middlebury College. Why? I do not know. Because adding Davis to Johnson’s show is like adding water to cereal. Or, if you’d rather: Fucking bland.
It’s frightening to think that this nation’s elite will be sending their children to Middlebury for a mere $50,000 a year to study political science and then hear insights like this from Davis:
• Bernie Sanders is most likely going to be re-elected.
• Peter Shumlin is working hard.
• Peter Welch could effectively argue both sides of an issue.
• Pat Leahy is…whatever.
Wow. Such insight from the professor.
And then we wonder why getting elected to one of Vermont’s top four elected positions (congress, senator-times-two, and governor) amounts to a lifetime gig. Um, because the media and the so-called political analysts probe them as deeply as a mosquito probes a horse’s ass. Puns, mixed metaphors and foul language intended, by the way.
WDEV’s head honcho, Ken Squier, has been doing a lot of ranting lately about the outrageous acts of Congress, especially during the debt-ceiling crisis. He’s been bashing the Republicans and the Democrats, even all but endorsing a complete “throw the rascals out” campaign.
Until, that is, we get to Vermont’s delegation. Go figure.
Because while Squier works himself into a pre-commercial-break lather, he (and his station) largely turns to putty when the subject of Vermont’s congressional trio of Leahy, Sanders and Welch is broached.
Sorry, Kenly, but I’ll take your anti-Congress rants more seriously when you take aim at just one of our, as you say about every one of Member of Congress, “entrenched, career and complacent” congressmen.
And it shouldn’t be hard to find a target amongst our Vermont delegation when it comes to the debt-ceiling debacle. Because our three blind congressional mice covered all the bases: Leahy voted “yes” on the debt-ceiling vote; Sanders voted “no”; and Welch effectively voted “yes” and “no.”
So, pick your target, Kenly. One of them has got to fit into your paradigm of outrage, no?
We’re waiting.
Until then, please tell Mark Johnson that unless he’s willing to send us all a pound of that Vermont Coffee Company coffee that he’s always hawking, please stop putting us to sleep with Eric Davis.