MARCH MADNESS: Something To Cheer About

The month of March has provided plenty of sport on the court and in the hall(s) of congress for those who like to keep score. Politics for sure can be dead serious and just plain fanciful and so can the time-honored tradition of basketball. From my seat both the serious and not so portend a good outcome this Spring month.

The tough call to press hard for a vote on something of critical consequence, let’s say stopping U.S. presents in the conflict in Iraq, sends a signal to the world that U.S. policy on war engagement will change and perhaps begin anew. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the U.S. House of Representatives in setting a timetable to begin disengaging U.S. troops in that conflict. It was a close 218-212 vote, but the Speaker prevailed in moving her “hard and fast” promise to end U.S. fighting men and women’s involvement there; and leaving very little “wiggle room” for spin miesters’ commentaries raising issue over Speaker Pelosi’s resolve to get the job done.

Now to the fanciful where some deserving young men of the “hardwood” are playing their hearts out in games of “roundball”...Some say sports and hard news don’t mix...
Okay...but just this once you got to love the men’s NCAA playoff countdown to a single championship team...I have no horse in this incredibly long race...It’s now just too close to call. Ohio State, Memphis, UCLA, Kansas, Georgetown, Florida, Oregon and U.N.C. are all so good, all with noble intentions, that if there is any “wiggle room” or room to wiggle in the final minutes between these contestants someone is going to happily wind up in and yet ultimately leave The Georgia Dome, in Atlanta, where the NCAA Championship and final four play conclusively, heart broken...This is "hardball" at its best where only good decisions truly count and precision wins the day.

And, so it goes with politics and sports this month... On the one hand we cheer for the very best guys to finish a hard fought battle on top and on the other we cheer for it all to be over soon; with victory declared in both conflict and contest.
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