Congress vs the Septic Sphincter: BONANZA for Kabuki Fans!
I can just imagine Pravda Spice meeting with some of his Congressional opposite numbers:
"Comrade Vlad says we must look INDEPENDENT of one another!"
"Yes, yes! Comrade Vlad is WISE... he knows... about our Swiss bank accounts and the rent boys..."
"So we must do something that makes us look INDEPENDENT! We must not always be agreeing and appearing to coordinate our actions."
"But... isn't that what our base of deplorables WANTS?"
"Maybe so, and we will give it to them, but we can't LOOK as though we're acting together. The non-deplorables and the media we don't have completely in our pockets yet will suspect something."
"Suspect how?"
"Don't be more foolish than you can help. Have Congress and the Executive Branch EVER worked together in recent memory? Even when they are controlled by the same party, it is always a power struggle. That is how the people know we are INDEPENDENT. Not being coordinated from Moscow."
"Oh. Okay. How will we do this?"
"Easy. First you do something that looks "extreme" and we criticize, and you walk it back."
"Why do we have to go first?"
:: Pravda Spice sighs:: "We have not been Inaugurated yet..."
"Oh, right. And then, when you are, YOU'LL do something "extreme" and WE'LL criticize, and you'll walk it back."
::long pause:: "Oh, sure."
"And then when the media has praised us all for acting INDEPENDENTLY, we just quietly get on with doing whatever it was we were criticizing each other for."
"Comrade Vlad will approve."
ironically,
Bright
