Parents, if your child breaks something around the house like a window, for example, don’t be too concerned about his future just because he doesn’t seem to want to take any responsibility for it. There’s a very strong possibility he has a future as an executive at a large multi-national corporation like BP, Transocean, or Halliburton. If that doesn’t work out he or she can always run for Congress.
If that’s not extreme enough for you then maybe your child may even have presidential aspirations, after all, anything that goes wrong for President Obama is clearly President Bush’s fault. Even if history rates Obama as the worst president ever he will be saying it’s because Bush was the worst up to that point.
If Obama was confronted by someone using the famous line by Jack Nicholson in the movie “A few Good Men” saying about his presidency, “You can’t handle the truth.” I’m sure he would immediately break out his teleprompter and go into a beautiful soliloquy about the truth and what it meant to hope and change for this great country. And then he would go on 42 different TV news and entertainment shows to talk about what the truth meant to us all until everyone forgot about the original accusation made to him about truth. And by the time he was done with it truth would have a new definition just like “Hope” and “Change” does now. Now that I think of it he may have taken lessons from Clinton. During his impeachment proceedings sexual relations and oral sex had no interrelating definitions by the time he was done.
Now when you talk about responsibility and Congress you are really referring to two subjects that have no correlation to each other. Here is a conversation between an interviewer and a congressman discussing responsibility:
Interviewer: What do you think of this whole oil spill mess?
Congressman: Well, I know one thing for sure. I had nothing to do with it. But rest assured Congress will get to the bottom of this.
Interviewer: That’s an interesting statement. What do you mean by that?
Congressman: I mean we’ll have someone to blame.
Interviewer: But what will that solve?
Congressman: Nothing really, but it sure keeps the heat off of us in Congress. I have to tell you that was a little uncomfortable for us during the Healthcare thing.
Interviewer: But now because of what you did all of us citizens will suffer for a long time. (Editor’s note: This interviewer obviously does not work for anyone but FOX…and proudly.)
Congressman: (Clears his throat) Well….I’m sure if there was any wrong doing on our part our ethics committee will look into it. (Editor’s note again: An ethics committee in Congress is like having a vacuum cleaner in a pig sty.)
Interviewer: That is an interesting note. On that, do you in Congress ever take responsibility for anything?
Congressman: Of course we do. Whenever we are caught doing something illegal or immoral and there’s no way out of it we admit we did it.
Interviewer: That’s not really what someone would call taking responsibility.
Congressman: You obviously know absolutely nothing about politics.
There you have it folks. So, the next time your child breaks a window or something and admits even the slightest bit of responsibility for it breath a heavy sigh of relief. He will never be a politician.
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