Who’s on First
The famed comedy team of Abbot & Costello of the 1940’s had a routine called “Who’s on first”. A sketch about names of players on a baseball team that was a play on words. The premise is that Bud Abbott is identifying the players on a team for his partner Lou Costello. Confusion reigns as the names and nicknames can be interpreted as non-responsive answers to Costello's questions regarding the players’ real names. The first baseman is named "Who"; thus, the utterance "Who's on first" is an ambiguous answer to that question. Same goes for the answers regarding the other players named “What”, “I Don’t Know”, “Why” “Because”, Tomorrow”, “Today” and “I Don’t Give a Darn”.
A modern-day version of this classic comedy routine is playing out in the Nation’s capital as we watch the head of our government manage the current pandemic crisis. To mask or not to mask, that is the question Joe. While attempting to direct the current pandemic response, it becomes apparent that he couldn’t direct traffic on a one-way street. When asked about it, given his recent conflicting statements, he’d be better off by just saying, “I Don’t Know”.
Conflicting information is constantly fed to the public by Doctor Fauci, the CDC, vaccine advocates, anti-vaccine activists and Joe’s press secretary, Pinocchio Psaki. Some say the Delta Variant is more contagious than chicken pox or the common cold. So now we need to mask up to protect the unvaccinated? The ongoing muddled messaging is acerbated by a prompter reading leader. He and assorted regime officials have had more positions on this than you’d find in the Karma Sutra. Solid clarification with a verifiable consensus would be a good idea without creating a “pandemic panic” again. We don’t need to shut down the economy, the schools or surrender our personal freedom to a bunch of malevolent government bureaucrats who don’t know what the name of the guy on third base is. (Hint – “I Don’t Know”)
The pandemic isn’t the only portion of current governance that is not understood. Looks like a lot of Democratic Mayors have suddenly realized that their insanely stupid “defund the police” advocacy has backfired. Police personnel are quitting in record numbers as progressive local prosecutors and District Attorneys are failing to bring charges and hold the hoodlums accountable. “What” happened to protecting the vast majority from the criminals?
“Why” is the nations’ foreign policy in a confusing mess over the ham handed pull out of forces from Afghanistan? Who concocted this disorderly “leave in the middle of the night” withdrawal? Guess they all think the Taliban will march into Kabul singing Kumbaya. Most savvy military leaders think that at the least, a residual force to provide air power would have been wise while the Afghan government gets its footing. It’s evident that some said “I Don’t give a Darn” about the fate of the women in that country despite the Taliban’s history of governance toward them.
“Today” inflation is running at a record pace, driven by higher fuel prices with no idea if there will be any improvement. “Because” the current regime thinks that spending more money than the country has is a solution. It’s not. One would think that the progressive Democrats would be bright enough to figure out that people do vote based on what it costs to put gas in the car and food in the fridge. Maybe “Tomorrow” the likes of Rep. Sandy Cortez and her liberal pals will figure it out. Not a chance.
“Who” is solving the border crises? “I Don’t Know”? “What” is the reason for mandating this conflicting policy of utter calamity? The DC bureaucrats aided and abetted by a compliant media, continue to ensure this invasion remains uncovered. This won’t last long as communities all over the country are waking up, finding that they are receiving illegals, shipped in the dark of night, overloading their hospitals and social services.
Given the state of the Nation, what’s happening inside the DC beltway is a pathetic comedy of leadership at every level from the “Big Guy” President, the “Border Czar” Vice President and a “Batty” Speaker of the House who calls her Republican counterpart a moron, when it’s her policies that are moronic. It’s abundantly evident that the vast majority the new regime has no clue as to “Who’s on first”.
Someone needs to figure out who is on first before the country gets to a point where folks don’t even know where first base is, and the current state of confusion becomes unsolvable.