Friday, February 09, 2007
Give the Department of Peace a chance?
One of the nuttier political ideas to come down the pike in recent years is U.S. Representative Denis Kucinich's proposed federal Department of Peace. The Alfred E. Newman-looking Kucinich, who's deluded himself into thinking that he could be the next U.S. President, has enlisted a host of celebrities and similarly deluded souls to join him in his peace-promotin' efforts. As the G4 television network reported:
"Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler joined actor Joaquin Phoenix, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) ... at Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC, Monday night to lobby for the creation of a Department of Peace."
Kucinich has failed to tell us what a Department of Peace would, well, do. Would it stage marches during which participants would warble their way through Aerosmith songs? (Aerosmith is well known, you know, for recording tunes with serious themes. Indeed, "Dude Looks Like a Lady" is biting - biting - social commentary.)
Do we really need a new federal agency, with the requisite bureaucracy and bloated budget, whose sole purpose is to engage in hopeless, misguided idealism? We already have a federal agency that does such ... it's called the U.S. Department of Education.
"Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler joined actor Joaquin Phoenix, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) ... at Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC, Monday night to lobby for the creation of a Department of Peace."
Kucinich has failed to tell us what a Department of Peace would, well, do. Would it stage marches during which participants would warble their way through Aerosmith songs? (Aerosmith is well known, you know, for recording tunes with serious themes. Indeed, "Dude Looks Like a Lady" is biting - biting - social commentary.)
Do we really need a new federal agency, with the requisite bureaucracy and bloated budget, whose sole purpose is to engage in hopeless, misguided idealism? We already have a federal agency that does such ... it's called the U.S. Department of Education.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Friday, February 09, 2007 
