On demand
It was a short news week, but I had to laugh when I saw that Senator Ron Wyden (D-Sorta Ore.-Sorta) is demanding answers from Portland General Electric about their rate increases. 
Ron is very big on the demanding of answers. I wonder if he ever gets any. If he does, I wonder what he does with the answers. It doesn't seem like it could be anything that makes much of a difference.
I've never received one of the senator's sternly worded letters demanding that I provide answers. But given the sheer volume of these missives, I know it's just a matter of time. I wonder how I'll react when it gets here. I'll probably laugh and brush it off, as the other demandees do.
Meanwhile, the grandstanding demanding goes on. You wonder what he'll be ordering people to answer about next. Probably why the Saudis are going to be allowed to host the soccer World Cup. When you're demanding answers, no line of questioning is too far out.
Somehow we never get around to demanding answers on why Wyden is still senator from Oregon.
ReplyDeleteHe gets the same sainthood treatment that Hatfield got, only with half the IQ.
DeleteJack ---
DeleteUnlike Mark Hatfield, Ron is no saint (as flawed as Hatfield was, Ron isn't qualified enough to have been his valet...that's an object lesson to budding valets everywhere).
Saint Mark wasn't too holy. I seem to recall a scandal involving Steuben glass figurines. But you'll never find it now.
DeleteFound it, sounded like a cheap shot from an opponent.
DeleteTip of the iceberg. But you go ahead, don't stop believin'.
DeleteRon is one of the poster boys for the shallow bench of left leaning politics in Oregon. As soon as the “machine” comes up with a replacement, he’ll retire.
ReplyDeleteRonnie has been extremely successful in filling the needs and desires of those he serves.
ReplyDeleteThis is akin to the local news station that “asks the tough questions”.
ReplyDeleteWell he's certainly not Da Man, so I guess we're left with Demand...
ReplyDeletePortland: no distinguished Senator....no NFL, MLB, NHL. 't'will always be thus. Back water small town.
ReplyDeleteA lot of voters like it that way. To them , progressive is a political issue and any thought of becoming commercially progressive is abhorrent.
DeletePhysician, heal thyself. Is Ron so profoundly stupid that he doesn't realize that the Green Energy "solutions" he advocates, might "answer" why rates are increasing? Or does he just review the distribution on the Bell Curve and figure he's got enough standard deviations on his side that he can continue being an idiot?
ReplyDeleteThe latter.
DeleteI remember him! He used to live here before the war.
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