One of the great joys in life is getting the chance to tell a bully off, but the timing and the circumstances have to be just right or you're liable to suffer the consequences.
For instance, you might want to have a much larger person with ostentatious musculature looming behind you, or a band of sympathizers at your side. Having a .45 in your hands can lessen anxiety. Knowing the bully is handcuffed, behind bars, or otherwise restrained or incapacitated, helps.
When the bully is a public official with the ability to abuse power at your expense, it's best to wait until the official’s term is up, or almost up, before offering an honest assessment of character. Even then, you'd better be sure that the successor is not a personal friend or relative of the official, or a like-minded scoundrel.
Imagine how many thousands of people have been holding back and biting their tongues for years on end, just waiting for a safe chance to tell President Barack Obama what they really think of him and his toadies.
Now that his second term is nearly over, honest candor will start to flow and Obama and his bullies will need earplugs to silence the raised voices of deserved criticism.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy just got an earful from our own Rep. Evan Jenkins.
“Coal jobs provide a true, living wage that support a family,” Jenkins told McCarthy at a recent House Subcommittee hearing on the EPA budget. “Coal jobs also come with really good benefits – a pension and health care benefits a retiree can count on. But not anymore. The bankruptcies of our country’s largest coal companies have left pensioners and widows desperate for help.
“And because of your actions, West Virginia now has one of the highest unemployment rates in the entire country.”
Now that the end is near, others will start speaking up and give Obama and his cronies what for. Maybe some actual positive thinking about coal’s future will result in the aftermath.