Man! Dude! Session #206

(D)ude: Man! What are we going to do about this impending government shutdown?

(M)an: Dude! Let the people decide whether they want to participate in Obamacare. Allow the statewide regional leadership to defund Obamacare for future participants and keep the countless who have benefited and want to benefit from Obamacare enrolled in the program.

D: Man! There are loopholes in what you’re proposing. What if the American people are not aware at all about the beneficial and humaneness going on in government due to this Republican gerrymandering trend that favors white flight constituents?

M: Dude! And in exchange for this, President Obama and Vice President Biden get to rewrite the Farm Bill for benefiting the most vulnerable Americans who will have lost their supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits if Eric Cantor had his way in that legislative department.

D: Man! In exchange for the defunding of Obamacare, the GOP Republicans must surrender their other legislative agendas over to the Obama Administration and the United States Senate.

M: Dude! If our children and their families lose SNAP, what difference will Obamacare implement? Childhood diseases such as rickets will have compromised our children’s bodies and don’t forget the crisis in dental care that needs to be averted as well with the proper diet. How can a child be left to hunger and starvation alongside his or her family members?

D: Man! And if the government shutdowns, there will be an increased risk of crime and domestic violence. Healthcare via Obamacare will have to contend with such obstacles from the breakdown of the American Household that to have implemented it would be seen as a knockout failure in the long run.

M: Dude! Let the midterm elections and the voters decide what they want in terms of Obamacare. If they choose not to support the efforts of the Obama Administration, then let them continue voting into office their legislators.

D: Man! Attorney General Eric Holder could figure into the grand bargain as well. Attorney General Holder could negotiate something with the voter oppression tactics of the districts run by the Boehner and McConnell camp of Republican.

M: Dude! We need to be careful. We need Ben Bernanke to stay on and not say goodbye to the Obama and Biden Administration at this most critical time of negotiating.

D: Man! I cannot imagine the low birth weights and medical crises that the Cantor and Boehner alliance in the House will generate with their closed-door policies towards the very people who fed and clothed them and us!

M: Dude! John Boehner comes from a tough background and the thing that keeps him Republican 

fresh is that philosophy that the GOP extols, you know?

D: Man! What philosophy would that be? It is only relevant if it happened to me personally?

M: Dude! Come to think of it again, I think John Boehner is willing to look the other way on his folks in similar circumstances as he while growing up.

D: Man! Some complaints, like Pope Francis I disclosed in his interview six months into the papacy, “are better dealt with locally.”

M: Dude! I am of the opinion of Pope Francis I as well, “I want to see that this is a real, not ceremonial, consultation” between the House Republicans and President Obama and Vice President Biden.

D: Man! Actually, I would much prefer Vice President Biden be the one dealing the cards. As Pope Francis I continued, “We have to find a new balance. Otherwise, even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.”

M: Dude! Maybe Pope Francis I ought to be invited to the White House? He’s a very spirited and honestly lovable Padre.

D: Man! We must keep separation of church and state! But I don’t see anything controversial about Padre coming over for tea with the First and Second families.

M: Dude! Pope Francis I appreciates Fellini’s works as you do. What was that film of Fellini’s you watched over twenty-five times?

D: Man! Zeffirelli’s La traviata! 

M: Dude! Oops!

D: Man! It’s okay. Just don’t ever do it again! Others might not be forgiving like me!

M: Dude! I’m not hopeless! Placido Domingo played Alfredo and Teresa Stratas played Violetta!

D: Man! And Violetta died of consumption. Excuse me, it makes me so upset, it really does.

M: Dude! Libiamo ne’lieti calici!

D: Man! I cannot! I mustn’t! Drink from the joyful cup at a time of crisis everywhere?

M: Dude! You’re beginning to worry me.

D: Man! I’m beginning to worry myself as well!

M: Dude! Did I just speak some French just then?

D: Man! I barely ever noticed! How come?

M: Dude! That House of Representatives in DC is worse than Violetta Valery’s salon!