The 3 + hour ordeal of last Tuesday night still isn't over There is fallout all over the place and some of it isn't good.
I think the opposition ambushed us, beat us up and stole our lunch money.
And I think I have some of our "allies" to thank for that little (Little?....hell ...it was MAJOR!) fiasco.
Somebody once told me that one of the problems with liberals is that they firmly believe that if they just sit down with their adversaries and reason with them, then, naturally, the adversary will "see the light" and come around to your side, or, at worst, compromise with you in a reasonable and rational manner.
WRONG!
Sometimes your enemies will meet with you only to find out "where you're coming from" and use that to mount their attack.
And that's exactly what happened before the last meeting. One of my "allies" (I'm really taking liberties with that term here) sat down with an opposition leader and calmly, rationally and forcefully laid out our side of the agenda and told him also who had been 'BRIEFED" on the agenda......
The result?
Well, now I know how General Custer felt.....
If there's any good point about what went down of Tuesday night, then it is only that it drew a different line in the sand as far as the public is concerned. It might be that a good portion of the public is happy only that a decision has been reached and that 2/3 of the issues to squabble about have been put to rest. That's okay....I don't like the decisions but I can live with them.
I didn't want this issue to be divisive in the community but there are people here with an agenda who demand that they get "their way"....to some extent they have and it isn't a tragedy for the community (at least not yet) so I won't throw myself in front of the bulldozers to stop it....(like I should be doing on the $35MM power plant that won't serve us...)
Next battle please.....
