Am I alone in visualizing, whenever someone in the news
talks about so-on-and-so-forth happening along party lines in Washington, a
Conga line of dancers, or some line dancing scene at a party somewhere? And I
think that if politicians are going to vote along party lines, they really
ought to have to do so while dancing in some silly party line dance, like to
“Achy Breaky Heart” or some such silly song, for all the cameras, so everyone
in the country can see them and how silly they look voting along party lines.
And maybe if we could embarrass them like this for such reprehensible
groupthinky behavior as always toeing the party line, rather than exercising
their own conscience, representing their constituency, or doing what they know
to be best for the country, maybe we could get them to wake up and do the right
thing for a change. Because after all, isn’t everything about how it looks for
them to be seen doing things, and if they get shown up individually for the
silly boneheads that they so often are with their political games of
one-upmanship by party, wouldn’t they have political analysts in the news say,
of their party line only behavior: “The optics are bad”? And if the optics are
bad, you know it doesn’t look good. (Or so I’ve heard…)
