Dodgeball or baseball?

Dad,

From my perspective, that wasn’t a home run. Scott's fastball was high and inside, you dodged it, and now you are charging the mound! Looks pretty similar to the game they are playing on Capitol Hill actually…and it resembles nothing of the great American pastime. There is a bench-clearing brawl going on in the field, and the players are so busy swinging at each other that no one has noticed that the stands are empty. Some fans left because they’ve given up on the game. Most are queued up outside the locker rooms waiting for the players to exit.

It’s true that the Democrats have the majority, and as such, they’ll get the bigger beating from the fans. Maybe it will be so bad that your team will outnumber us in the next brawl! But is that the best that your team can hope for? Don’t you think our current situation necessitates that we try to start playing some baseball again?

So forget about Sarah Palin and John McCain. Forget about Obama if you can. Leave the political theater out of it. I’m out in parking lot E12 and I have a nice underhand pitch for you. It’s not fast, but if you swing at it, you run the risk of missing. So it’s up to you…you want to play dodgeball or baseball?

If you want baseball, here is the pitch: what would you do differently? What’s the alternate agenda?

Son