The nice thing about being a extrovert in DC is I often learn the truth behind the fantastic news spewed from the press.  The media has this way of looking at issues from only one side, and then pushing that side as the only reasonable and sane way of looking at something.  It sounds perfectly logical when it is said on the television, but when I hear an opposing viewpoint from some knowledgeable soul in the city, their way sounds just as correct.  It pays to remember that the louder someone screams, the more obvious and simple the press makes their viewpoint out to be, the more likely it is some information just as relevant and diametrically opposed to that opinion exists.

Still, I can’t find the spin in the Franken rape amendment.  What happened at Halliburton was atrocious, to be sure, but it may be something in the wording of the bill itself (as presented by Franken) that caused thirty Senators to oppose it.  Congressman and senators love to pass feel-good fluff bills, so the fact that so many opposed this amendment makes me smell a dead rhinosaurus in the room.  My natural inclination is to believe in the utter corruption of Congress (which I know to be an unjust assumption) and I generally want to villify big business, male dominated environments, and sexual offenders.  This emotional charge makes it hard for me to take a step back and look at the facts logically, to ask the mundane questions.  Remember that even a miraculously wonderful bill may be scratched if the wrong miniscule clause is thrown in, and it is a common political tactic to hide sneaky self-serving (or publicly damaging) tidbits into much needed amendments.  Politics is all about throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Where’s the damn spin?

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