P-G Columnist: America's curse: a mushy, malleable middle

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America's curse: a mushy, malleable middle

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

By Reg Henry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

To understand why the president of the United States, having lost all other vestiges of dignity, is sitting around in his undershorts as he celebrates the settlement of the debt-ceiling fiasco, it is necessary to focus on two unrecognized factors that shaped the outcome: Eustace Tilley and Chinese fortune cookies.

You may not know Eustace Tilley but he often accompanies the better class of person into finely appointed bathrooms. Now, don't go getting all nervous or excited. Our man Eustace is a most reputable gentleman and goes there only as a reading companion.

He is the emblem of The New Yorker magazine. In its famous illustration, he is a dandy in a top hat and high collar who studies a butterfly through a monocle in a most superior way.

Although The New Yorker is not NASCAR Illustrated and therefore more likely the preferred reading of people who are liberal if not Democratic, I am thinking that Eustace is an Independent.

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Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11215/1164692-154-0.stm#ixzz1TxuAChJG

[Fuddnik]

1. "Couldn't negotiate a free beer at an open bar".

[Demeter]

3. That's the Truth

[Doctor_J]

2. America's curse is a media that would make Goebbels blush

until that situation is rectified there won't be any democracy in this country.