My new Pajamas Media column is up. I decided to apply Cesar Milan’s philosophy about dog to politicians. I think it’s a great idea as politicians are a lot like dogs except for the loyalty part.
My new Pajamas Media column is up. I decided to apply Cesar Milan’s philosophy about dog to politicians. I think it’s a great idea as politicians are a lot like dogs except for the loyalty part.
When a politician is bad, I prefer to denounce it as a scoundrel and hit it across the head with my heavy walking stick.
Unlike dogs, ALL politicians should be “outside” politicians.
Why cant we let all the homeless four-legged furry friends live on Capitol Hill, and then neuter and put (down) the Congresscritters out of our misery?
great article, but i’d rather use on politicians what i used on my dog…
He learned his boundaries by getting zapped by the underground fence.
pelosi: “astrotu..” ZAP!! “um i mean grass roots”
I thought it was going to be straightforward over-the-top silliness (as one would expect), but the more I think about it, the more sense the whole idea makes.
Politicians are not nearly as good as dogs. Dogs at least have a purpose and are furry and cuddly.
Politicians are more like reall bad llamas, good for nothing, not edible, and spit a lot. There should be a bounty on them, like there is for varmits.
One gaping hole in your plan. How do we retrain the voters of Massachusetts, California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. If we can get those people to train their Politian, then the country would be a better place. Two Words: Choke Chain.
Umm. Nevermind that last part. Barny Frank might think that was a reward.
Most politicians need to be taken for their daily walk. Otherwise they become bedwetters like Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi.
I like what NunyaB said, and storm1911 that’s funny.
I would rather whack Obama in the nose with a rolled up newspaper, and put him outside.
You may not need to retrain the voters of Pennsylvania, BigRichard. You do, however, need to sell Philadelphia to some meaningless foreign country. Maybe Liechtenstein.
Oh, how I despise what has become of the city that was conceived by the great William Penn.
I don’t think Liechtenstein has the money any more. How about Japan. They seem to think the best way of getting out of the crushing debt of spending the most per GDP of any westernized nation is by electing a party that promices to spend even more. Yes, Soon there will be an actively traded money on the FOREX markets that will be worth less than that pull tab on top of a beer can at a recyling center.
In all honesty, I consider Pennsylvania a wash. Yes that state has given us great Americans like Bill Cosby, General Marshal, Daniel Boone and Rocky Balboa. But they gave us Arlen Specter, and John Murtha. What’s that joke about the guy who built hundereds of bridges, and thousands of bars but was known for doing something else once??
The rest of the country should consider themselves lucky, BigRichard. So far, Philadelphia, er, Pennsylvania has chosen not to release Ed Rendell upon you. No, we’ll keep him here so he can withhold the budget until it’s too late for lawmakers to do their “compromise” thing, then blame the Republicans when centers for mentally challenged people start closing.
Frank, this is flipping brilliant. I sit amazed in the presence of such awesomeness!
I’m picturing how satisfying it would be to say “NO, senator Boxer, that’s a bad senator!” because we daren’t call her ma’am lol.
Actually I think politicians are more like Kudzu, but Frank raises some valid points.
I, like labcat, was disappointed in the advice simply to restate a prohibition. I was really looking forward to smacking Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, and Anna Eshoo on their noses with a rolled-up copy of Baseball America.
If we neutered all politicians it would at least cut down on one kind of scandal they tend to get involved with.
It would also end the idea of ‘political dynasties’.
Two items that I have found effective in dog-training: the choke chain collar( and also the variation with the inward facing prongs ),and the Bark-Control Collar. Collars around the necks of our politicians, and possibly those law enforcement ankle bracelets seems to be the way to go.>>> I seem to remember a Star Trek episode about wearing ‘Submission Collars’, so, in effect, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
I DO like the politician/dog analogy: Congress is made up of bitches and sons of bitches