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Another Political Bestiary, Ep. XXXIII

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The Rollout (2020). Acrylic and ink on paper. From my book, Another Political Bestiary, available at Amazon Books. Artwork and text copyright Danny Grosso.

Continuing the expeditions of Jeff MacNelly, James Kilpatrick, and Eugene McCarthy, with apologies.

The Rollout

Wide but severely contained; prone to colorful language, but lacking intellectual depth, the Rollout is often conceived in fertile seasons when policy wonks become aroused by blooms of receptive political polling data. It is often presented to society with much fanfare – a savior baby befitting visitation by rich men, mostly lobbyists. Its uncoiling during its lifetime provides the illusion of length, but the Rollout is finite, short lived and stunted, a pale impression of what is to come. Indeed, this first blush of impression is often so misleading that Rollouts are mocked with the passing of time: think healthcare in 1993, or infrastructure week in some recent years.

-Danny Grosso

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Another Political Bestiary, Ep. XLVII

Cloture (2020). Acrylic and ink on paper. From my book, Another Political Bestiary, available at Amazon Books. Artwork and text copyright Danny Grosso.

Continuing the expeditions of Jeff MacNelly, James Kilpatrick, and Eugene McCarthy, with apologies.

The Cloture

Robed in a Byzantine frock, Book of Spells in hand, the Cloture haunts the aisles of legislative chambers and holds enormous power. The Cloture can, with a mere whispered incantation, rob the legislators of their reason for existence, the continuing dalliance and debate of matters on the floor. This blunt power is all the more hard for the elected to take because it emanates in short order from this soft spoken and opaque creature. The Cloture’s deed is devastatingly quick and lethal, and invariably leaves one side of a legislative body panicked, frightened, traumatized. A friend to the majority, mostly, the Cloture can be vexing as it sometimes switches sides in times of crises or need, proving that it has no ideology but its own mystery and power. By that infidelity, the cloture is at times the ultimate foe of elected officials who, left unable to speak on the matter at hand, are left to cry about it on the prime time opinion shows.

-Danny Grosso

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