My Little Bully

Despite the fact that I was my high school's SGA treasurer my sophmore year, I am not an economist.  Thus, I have no credible grounds to say whether the "Debt Deal" was in fact something we should all cheer about or something we should revere.  Do not worry though, todays post will have nothing to do with the details of that controversial deal, but rather the people who lead us to it...

As you may know the topic for our next show is about bullying, and therefore I have been thinking about the subject a lot.  When I think of someone being bullied, I typically have flashbacks of elementary school when the class bully, Kevin Peters, shoved the scrawny little kid in glasses and My Little Pony socks straight onto the asphault barely missing the basketball pole, just because he did not want to play a game of flag football.  Was it MY fault I hated sports that did not involve jump ropes or chalk, and had an admiration for equestrian socks?!?!  Again I digress....

My point is, I often have images of adolecents when I think of bullying, but are children the only culprits? 
Watching the way congress handled itself leading up to this "dump, I mean debt deal"...reminded me that adults bully eachother just as much as kids do.  Now it doesn't matter if you are a democrat, republican, tea party or librarian, it would be hard to disagree that many members of congress across the isle acted like immature little bullies.  Some tried to intimidate the scrawny little kid until he started to cry;  push him so far off the play ground that he almost defaulted and hurt his head, and yes, the congressional bullies even took the little victims lunch money.  

Unfortunately, the scrawny little kid in this situation was NOT the opposing party, it wasnt just the republicans gunning after the democrats, and vice versus....the scrawny little kid was the American People...

So my message to those little congressional bullies: Stop acting like immature little bullies and leave that scrawny kid alone...afterall there are a whole lot more of them than you!