Boiling the frogs

[frogcycle]

To all who so vociferously and frequently lament the lack of immediate indictments of top members of the cabal that served as the previous administration of the US:

Take a deep breath. Stop assuming that not fulfilling your wildest dreams the afternoon of the inauguration equates to condoning the worst evils of the past eight years.

I assume everyone is familiar with the frog-boiling metaphor, but just in case:

If you drop a frog in boiling water it will react - try to jump out - might even succeed.

But put a frog in room-temperature water and gradually heat it, and the frog will stay there, oblivious to the change, until it is boiled to death.

Had Obama announced on day one that he was going to round up all the bad guys and string 'em up, the wagons would be tightly circled; the hue and cry from the rightwing nutjobs would be deafening, and in all likelihood most of the culprits would be in Paraguay.

As it is, Cheney is swimming around in that gradually-heating body of evidence, mouthing ever-more-self-incriminating inanities.

Patience, people.


Even the perceived slipup wherein Gibbs and Emanuel telegraphed that prosecutions of the top dogs were not to be was no slipup. This thing has to be a reluctant response to a groundswell. Even then, there will be screams of partisanship.

Obama knows exactly what he is doing, and he will land these fish, but never appear to be the primary protagonist. This guy KNOWS how to do this stuff. His every success to date is prima facie evidence of that.

[drm604]

1. I understand the point you're trying to make

but, for the record, the frog thing is not true.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp

[frogcycle]

4. I stand corrected

Disappointed, because it is such a useful metaphor, but I appreciate the correction, nevertheless.

Maybe we have to call it rope-a-dope.

[drm604]

5. I used to believe it myself, and it is a useful metaphor. n/t

[librechik]

2. actually, frogs are smarter than us, frogcycle

they would jump out as soon as they got uncomfortable.

if you tell a human it's a popular spa treatment

or tie them up

they'll stay until it's too late

[NYC_SKP]

3. "If you put a freeper in a pot of water.."

:rofl:

[leftstreet]

6. "fulfilling your wildest dreams the afternoon of the inauguration"

:eyes:

[frogcycle]

7. huh?

:shrug: