A Case of the Ass (definitive edition)

            The Sunday newspaper editorial decried the cost of our President’s trip to Africa.  In a logical fallacy fit for fools, it implied that since children can’t tour the White House, America shouldn’t spend what’s needed to protect our President overseas—he should just stay home.  Further, it noticed that sequestration has saved a lot of money, and that the barely discernible suffering it has caused, is only known to the editor, because s/he heard it on the news.  Plus, Obama should be more sensitive to ordinary Americans.

            Congress, having resolutely stonewalled every attempt to recover our economy, having wasted close to $100 million on futile attempts to overturn or cripple Affordable Health Care, and having held austerity more important than struggling families, qualifies that editorial attitude as pure partisan potty mouth.  And to editors who apparently can’t recognize the negative impacts of sequestration even when they list some of them, maybe your better angels sail a simpler sea.  Oh, and you left out the ‘lack of leadership’ refrain.

              In what universe, you ask, does a $60+ million Presidential trip make sense?  Your bad-hammer might be better aimed at the disconnected insensitivity of corporate America.  For, in what universe does a salary of $96 million a year make sense?!  Why aren’t you pounding at the REAL problems we face, instead of the puerile little partisan ones?  Around here, your editorial slant, despite its red state resonance, kinda gives us a case of the ass.