As Neo-Neocon writes, “What an oily, condescending, manipulative, lying piece of work” is Nancy Pelosi. Here’s the Speaker of the House’s detailed explanation of what’s in the bill we had to wait until passed before we could see:
“It’s like the back of the refrigerator. You see all these wires and the rest. All you need to know is, you open the door. The light goes on.”
Yes, and it’s an incandescent bulb, which you’re planning to ban in 2014, powered by electricity produced by a coal plant that you’re trying to regulate into bankruptcy. And the fridge is filled with food, half of which you’re trying to ban, the other half you’re trying to tax.
(And that doesn’t even get into the flashbacks to fellow Democrat William Jefferson and his fridge full of cash.)
Brilliant analogy, Nancy.
Come November, hopefully the refrigerator door will be closed so that Congress can be put on a regulatory diet.
Update: In the comments below, a reader suggests, “We can no longer ‘kill the bill,’ but we can take a hint from the last Indiana Jones movie and ‘Nuke the Fridge!’”
Heh.™
Well, today its a refrigerator. Tomorrow its the thing that once filled the box you now live in.
You have found THE postmodern metaphor. Not only is it pathetic (not the metaphor, but what its’ about), it is all so banal.
I really like the metaphor, personally.
We can no longer “kill the bill,” but we can take a hint from the last Indiana Jones movie and “Nuke the Fridge!”
As someone on another blog commented, if Nancy really thinks “all you need to know is you open the door and the light goes on” then she doesn’t know much.
You’ve got to clean the inside of the fridge regularly, and throw away too-old food, or else you’ll end up with a health hazard.
You’ve got to clean the condenser coils periodically, or else the motor will wear out and you’ll be replacing your refrigerators twice as often as necessary.
But why should Queen Nancy care if she sticks the peasants with an expensive germ factory?
Well, Nancy Pelosi IS a ‘highly educated White’ so when she talks about refrigerators, wires and incandescent bulbs she knows better than all the Stalinist on NBC TV.
Though she’s not smart as Barack Obama it would seem, he’s so smart he knows how to read a teleprompter.
“All you need to know is, you open the door. The light goes on.”
And all you need to know is, we close the door. And you’re inside.
See you in 2012, Nancy!
When the humming sound stops and the food spoils, who is going to honor the warranty. Is there a warranty?
Does this fridge use electricity? Where is that electricity going to be generated? Is there a small bicycle and belt attachment that we must ride to keep the food cool when the electricity is interrupted?