From: malassimiQRMlation@gmail.com   
      
   >From the "Slopping the Hogs" department, which is the way that former   
   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   
      
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