Congressman Barney Frank used to refer to his biennial efforts at sincerity ...
Our electred representatives have ordered the FCC to do its best to create an intimation of the vague posibility of further exploration of the chances for them to start doing their duty.
It's time for another election, which is when our public servants go around promising the hogs^h^h^h^h voters that they're doing important things - like protecting their phony-baloney jobs.
The Democratic party - a word I've always thought should be applied as described in Google's first listed meaning of "a social gathering of invited guests, typically involving eating, drinking, and entertainment." - is decrying "MAGA Republicans" at the same time it tries to win a race-to-the-bottom of the list of the electorate's worst fears.
Are you afraid of your boss knowing you attended a protest during your college days? The FCC is on the job, busily toiling to create the impression that it cares how much your boss or your cow-orkers or the company Chairmen know about what you did before you accepted their employment offer.
Are you afraid of potential employers knowing that you visited Planned Parenthood before you came in for the interview about the new work-at-home opportunity? The FCC is on the job, with their noses to the government grindstone, toiling to create the impression that "someone" in our nation's capital actually cares about you or your future - or anything other than preserving their phony-baloney jobs.
Are you afraid of your company's benefit coordinator finding out that you visited an Oncologist? Well, the FCC is on the job, sparing no expense to create the impression that you deserve to take advantage of the health insurance you've been paying for during all those years you've been lifting the corporate barge and toteing the corporate bale.
Better believe it, suckers: the Dem-o-crats have you and your future in mind - until one millisecond after you leave the voting booth in November.
After that, they'll go back to trading favors with their Republican friends and practicing speeches with their image consultants, and accepting free drinks and free jet rides and free stays at exclusive and very discreet beach resorts, from the corporate lobbyists they pretend to abhor whenever the cameras are running.
Of course, they'll also go back to telling the FCC to get busy moving the government goods: every single iota of the public airwaves that can be sold, so that there will be more money for bridges-to-nowhere, more money for shiny things that the Generals and the Admirals can brag about at the Officers club, and more money for the jobs they'll award to their campaign consultants and image consultants and pollsters during the "off season" when they don't have to slop the hogs.
Bill Horne