From the Other Side of the Edge…..
“I’m Sorry….?”  Where’s Brenda Lee, When We Need Her….?
By Joe Facinoli

“I’m Sorry….?” Where’s Brenda Lee, When We Need Her….?

“I’m sorry,….so sorry,….please accept my a-pol-o-gy….”

No, that wasn’t sweet Brenda we heard last week, falsetto-ing out sincere and heartfelt regrets, over past unspeakable indiscretions.

Nope, …that was our El Presidente, our ever so benevolent and thoughtful ruler, stepping off the throne for just a moment, long enough to tell a favorite NBC News reporter just how sorry he felt, for any inconvenience that may be happening, after a few “glitches” in his beloved Obamacare had surfaced.

But wait,…was there actually an apology in there, among all the singing and dancing and dodging around the real reasons for the difficulties in question??

Methinks not.

Oh, he may have been sorry alright,….sorry that he got caught, and that his little plan didn’t work out, and that people whom he entrusted to take his national socialist agenda to the next level had let him down, ….big time.

And he may have felt bad, for the uncomfortable and unwanted position all these screw-ups had put him in.

But honest, actual regret?

Sincere sympathy for the blight that his new Healthcare adventure had brought to so many dozens of millions of Americans, for whom he had taken an oath, twice, to protect ???

These ears heard none of that.

What I heard was a guy who may (or may not) have felt bad that your knee hurt, and for the pain and suffering which you would have to endure, during re-hab, ….but who harbored not a snippet of regret for having been the one who took a baseball bat to your knee-cap, in order to get whatever he wanted, on that particular day.

It’s always about him, and his agenda. The minions be damned.

Matters not, whatever “pain and suffering” others have to go through, nor what time tested institutions he has to dismantle, in order to advance what he, and his lifetime of handlers, have prescribed for our future.

Mmmm….I think I can hear Brenda again, warbling out her best attempt at apologizing to someone she’s wronged, so badly. (I know that dates me, terribly, however, …I don’t really care!)

But as Blake Shelton might add, singing lyrics just as appropriate, in his convincing (and current) Country tone, from his tune of the same name:

“Well, I’m sorry,…but sometimes ‘sorry’,….just ain’t good enough.”

Right on, Blakester, you hit it dead on the head. Git on home and kiss Miranda for us, your work here is done.

Now back to the President, who will be showing up in a city or town near you soon (anytime and anyplace, as long as TV keeps him in front of us), …telling his tale, trying to explain away his gaffs and lies and missteps, ….lying about lying, and then lying to cover up the next lie, even before he lies about it.

What a mess.

He could be considered a monster, except that he’s so bad at being one. If he weren’t (so bad at it), he might be even more dangerous.

He keeps trying to take control of everything, only to see it slip away from him, through his inability to comprehend what it takes to keep it.

If we actually had a viable two party political system, he would easily have been defeated, either time he ran for the Highest Office, and could be made quite impotent, in the 2014 Congressional elections.

But unfortunately, we do not, and just as unfortunately, he will probably retain his connubial powers (politically speaking, which means: keep a strong grip on your trousers, and your belt buckle).

On the one hand, we have a party which is blind and belligerent, and feels the need to use nuclear weapons every time any “one person minority” feels the least bit slighted or damaged.

They bundle all those “one-ers” together, to form a manufactured voting block of disjointed, but similarly angry people, who will back anyone who sings their song, and promises them their moon (since no one else ever has,….nor ever will). And, they win elections this way.

We have another party, which is just plain stupid, and allows themselves to be dragged into every single little fight, involving every single little minority or peripheral issue, with people who only want their “taste”, and who couldn’t care less about anyone else.

This “Stupid Party” fights all these unnecessary battles, and loses almost all of them, even though they have the “game ending”, jungle clearing, grand-daddy of all “nuclear weapons” on their side.

But they refuse to stand by the convictions that The Constitution gives them, and the protection it affords them, …and they lose, in spite of themselves.

With the real losers being “We the People”, hammered from both sides.

The President continues to talk about what a “great product” awaits us, with his NOT So-Affordable Care Act. If only the website, …the gatekeeper, …the primary and initial step to eternal bliss and perfect health, …would just work, ….for a blessed minute!! (---damn it !!!).

But really, it doesn’t matter if it ever works right or not.

It is merely Big Government, and especially Big “Progressive” Government, at its worst. Finally revealing its true self, in all its arcane and horrific glory, for what it has slowly and steadily metastasized into:

….a non-functioning behemoth, which is overburdened with all manner of self-inflicted minutiae, overbearing to all beneath it, eternally and irresponsibly over-budget, mismanaged, misdirected, and un-administered, and which serves only those who give it life.

The line at the “trough” has finally grown too long, with those demanding to be served becoming one step too greedy, and the “House of Cards” that held it all upright for so long, now ultimately and inevitably, collapsing under its own massive, gluttonous weight.

Fixing Obamacare’s website, is like a doctor fussing over an ugly mole or a bothersome wart, on the side of their patient’s neck, ….while they allow that same patient to continue to puff away at a two-pack-a-day habit, despite a hacking cough and an inability to walk up stairs, ….and to shove in a half dozen crème-filled donuts every morning, even though he has Stage 3, type 2 Diabetes.

In other words, the fix which they’re trying to make on this white elephant, has nothing to with the illness that troubles this program, ….and this country.

It simply, and naively, ignores what that sickness truly is, and the fact that the overall “cure” which they are forcing on the American people, only makes our general maladies, all the more terminal.

I can hear two more songs now, playing simultaneously, off in the distance. A newer one this time, and one older (always). Both bring a message.

New Republic’s: “It’s too late,…to apologize”, couldn’t be truer.

And dear, sweet Connie Francis, closing the show with her classic: “Who’s sorry now?”

We know the answer to Connie’s plaintive cry.

But let’s hope that this latest stumble into the stark reality of an unwanted future, may indeed provide some small light, …enough for those who can make a difference, ….to see a better path.

And let’s also hope, that the “patient” pulls through all this nonsense.

Keep the Faith,

Joe Facinoli

--Joe can be reached at: joefacinoli@gmail.com

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