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At Saturday's Values Voter summit in Washington, Rep. Roy Blount (R-MO) made an elegant parable about where we are right now in dealing with the problems that the Obama administration is causing for America:
This comes just several weeks after (former) Democrat Zell Miller, speaking to a crowd of mostly Republican problem-solving businessmen, identified another monkey (or more accurately, Gorilla) problem....
I, for one, am proud to be a member of a party that finds SOLUTIONS to problems like meddling monkeys!! That's why today's Republican party is so admired--- because we recognize when monkeys are the problem, and doggone it, we DO something about it!!! See? We're problem-solvers!!! That's why America LOVES the Republican Party!!!
REP. ROY BLUNT ®, MISSOURI: Supposedly it’s the turn of the 19th century, the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century, there was a group of British occupiers in a very lush, very quiet, very peaceful, very uneventful part of India. And this group of British soldiers who were occupying that part of India decided they’d carve a golf course out of the jungle of India. And there was really not much else to do. So, for over a year, this was the biggest event going on getting this golf course created.
And they got the golf course done and almost from the day the first ball was hit on this golf course, something happened they didn’t anticipate. Monkeys would come running out of the jungle and they would grab the golf balls. And if it was in the fairway, they might throw it in the rough. If it was in the rough, they might throw — they might throw it back at you.
And I can go into great and long detail about how many things they did to try to eliminate the monkey problem, but they never got it done. So finally, for this golf course and this golf course only, they passed a rule, and the rule was you have to play the ball where the monkey throws it. And that is the rule in Washington all the time.
And they got the golf course done and almost from the day the first ball was hit on this golf course, something happened they didn’t anticipate. Monkeys would come running out of the jungle and they would grab the golf balls. And if it was in the fairway, they might throw it in the rough. If it was in the rough, they might throw — they might throw it back at you.
And I can go into great and long detail about how many things they did to try to eliminate the monkey problem, but they never got it done. So finally, for this golf course and this golf course only, they passed a rule, and the rule was you have to play the ball where the monkey throws it. And that is the rule in Washington all the time.
I think Rahm Emanuel ought to get some Gorilla Glue and put it in that chair behind the Oval Office and say, `Sit down here, Mr. President.'
I, for one, am proud to be a member of a party that finds SOLUTIONS to problems like meddling monkeys!! That's why today's Republican party is so admired--- because we recognize when monkeys are the problem, and doggone it, we DO something about it!!! See? We're problem-solvers!!! That's why America LOVES the Republican Party!!!