leave dead horse

the tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. our government employs far more advanced strategies, such as:

• buying stronger whip
• changing riders
• threatening the horse
• appointing a committee to study the horse
• arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses
• lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included
• re-classifying the dead horse as 'living-impaired'
• hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse
• harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed
• providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance
• doing a productivity study to see if lighter rider improves the dead horse's performance
• declaring that, as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses
• rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses
• promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

from the 'business day' yesterday. too funny, too appropriate for the state of current political affairs.