Dateline: NEW YORK—Make no mistake, journalists were fired up, so they drilled down and rolled out a cautionary tale of the
bombshell that landed on a dumpster fire in the middle of a firestorm, after
the grilling of senators who pivoted to whether they’d reached a tipping point
or were just playing politics, not fearing the optics of thinking outside the
box at the crossroads of their last ditch effort, although there was plenty of
blame to go around in this searing indictment of the favourite Washington
parlor game that turned a blind eye on a potent symbol of the game-changer which
donned the mantle of a hotly contested feeding frenzy.
Needless to say, it remains to be seen in the 24-hour news cycle of the
digital age, whether, at first glance, the woefully inadequate, byzantine rules
that burst onto the scene will allow the punditocracy to breathe a sigh of
relief or will force it to probe the powers that be for the
American people, but those rules double-down with strange bedfellows in the
wake of keen observers of tongue-wagging, well-heeled lobbyists who met with an
ignominious end in the final analysis at the end of the day when, for all
intents and purposes, cooler heads prevailed at the inflection point of no
return that was shrouded in secrecy in an ill-advised, much-ballyhooed,
hastily-convened, closely-watched and oft-cited paradigm shift of a broken
system that underscores the object lesson of this Rorschach test.
Be that as it may, this is not your father’s
tectonic shift, if you will, and Christmas came early for skittish donors in that land of contradictions
which ushered in an eye-popping era in a nutshell that, contrary to popular
belief, prevented anyone from acknowledging the new normal in which there are
no face-saving compromises and we all press each other’s hot-button issues
which are the talk of the town, yet a portrait emerges of a grizzly veteran who
endured withering criticism in a dizzying array of wide-ranging interviews in a
nondescript office building, and of the poster child of an unsung hero who was
tapped to rise from obscurity and spark a debate that raised the specter of
hand-wringing partisans on both sides who traded barbs in a war of words and
walked on thin ice in a charm offensive, going forward as creatures of
Washington in a stinging rebuke to the fevered speculation of the proverbial
growing body of evidence that shines a spotlight on a political football, which raises more questions than answers about the tightly knit social fabric.
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