Members of our 9% Approval Rated Congress long ago decided to bestow on themselves a Title. To come up with what they considered an appropriate title they formed a Committee (they always form a committee). The Committee being guided by Roberts Rules of Title Bestowing went to the Roberts Book of Titles to find the Perfect Title to describe a Member of our Congress.
The Committee blew right past the section that they should have been using...“Appropriate Titles Based on Past Performance” and concentrated their search efforts on the section no Honorable Politician (is Honorable Politician an Oxymoron?) would have ever dared to look into...“Titles Meant to Obfuscate and Confuse” and came up with the most inappropriate Title you could ever imagine for a Member of Congress...“Honorable”.
That’s when the Folks Back Home looked at each other and said to their collective selves, “We are in deep trouble now”.
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I took a modicum of Bloggers License with this Blog Posting. It is not just Members of Congress who are addressed as “Honorable”.
In the United States, “honorable” is used as a title of courtesy for current and former public officials. (In England, there are strict rules about who gets the title.) U.S. usage varies, because there is no official etiquette; the honorific is often used for judges and justices, members of Congress, governors, mayors, and members of state legislatures.
All these people may be called “Honorable” but George Washington had a slightly different but much better way of looking at this honorable question. He once said that of all the titles that could be bestowed upon him, the one he wanted to keep forever was, “Honest Man”.
Legend has it that President Washington never told a lie. I would like to quibble with this legend. I once read where he said as he was leaving Washington, D.C. for the last time, “I have enjoyed my time in this fine city”. That had to be a lie.
Smartfella
Lagniappe: Heart Surgeon and Lung Transplant Surgeon Doctor Bill Frist is a Former Senate Majority Leader. This is what he thinks we think about Members of Congress and me thinks he is correct...“Folks trust their doctor. They don’t trust their congressman”.
