The $3k Question

Congress got around to grilling the GSA folks today in DC.  The thing is....this week....down in Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland resort hotel....there's a GSA conference.

Naturally, this conference involves money and is drumming up a huge amount of Congressional interest.  At some point, someone bought up the fact that there is a Presidential Suite at the Opryland resort hotel, and it's being rented...at $3k per night.

This got Congress all peppered up and they wanted the GSA boss to say who it was in the Presidential Suite at the Opryland hotel.  Well....the gal from GSA just didn't know.  You could tell that she'd like to say no one from GSA was at the $3k room.....but she couldn't say that.

So you can imagine this scene tonight at the Gaylord resort in Nashville.  Some GSA dude is standing at the front desk and asking Ms Stephanie or Mr Gus.....who is in the $3k Presidential Suite.....and hotel management just doesn't want to say.  This GSA dude would then walk up to the room and knock on the door.

Then you have two scenarios to occur.

The GSA guy renting the room....just won't answer, and hopes the government rep just goes away.

Or, some fancy-pants governor from Alabama or Arkansas opens the door with his hot lusty girlfriend, and suddenly gets pictures taken of himself at the swanky Presidential Suite and wondering who the heck is bothering him while he's on a secretive liaison.

I'm guessing the Gaylord resort management guys are pretty upset by the negative press, and wondering how they got into all this trouble.

Meanwhile, back in Bama....some guys are sitting around and wondering what exactly you get with the $3k Presidential Suite, and if that hot lusty premium "Channel X" cable station is offered free in this room, and if you get a free complimentary six pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Note: there are 6k rooms at the Gaylord hotel in Nashville....so you'd wonder how Congress knows about the status of the Presidential suite on one particular evening.  We may need another congressional hearing....to find out the methods of hotel analysis being done by Congressmen.

Just Observations

First, there's a group of black ministers who have come out in a national message....mostly against President Obama and the gay marriage business.  What they hint at....is that the Democratic message....the NAACP message....and the President's message....won't sell to their religious groups.  Does it really matter?  If they convince one out of ten black voters who voted for Obama in 2008 to just stay home or vote for someone else....it's a pretty serious pain for the Obama crew to make up those votes.  The curious thing is that most gay voters were going to vote for Obama no matter what....so there's a question over why he or the NAACP had to go in this direction.  I'd be thinking that cash campaign funding was a big deal this time around.

Second, there's this Egyptian TV station starting up....with women only.  The catch is.....they will all wear vails.  So you can imagine the nightly news coming on....with this Tom Brokaw Egyptian-gal.....wearing a vail.  Later, a female Egyptian-gal will cover the weather.....wearing a vail.  Then sports talk, with some Egyptian-gal.....wearing a vail.  Just an opinion....but an oddity like this could catch on in the US, and guys in Dothan might prefer a vailed local newscast....over the regular newscast.

Third, not that it really matters....but the Obama campaign crew says the Mitt trip to the UK, Poland and Israel....was a "disaster".  Note, the folks in Israel are still waiting on the President's first visit to their country.

Founding Fathers?

Sometimes, you can read up the script idea of a new TV show and pretty declare it gone after eight episodes.  The newest pitch accepted by ABC?  Founding Fathers.

It's this modern day story about Sarge, who has done three tours in Afghanistan, and finally returned home to his town in Texas....to find it mostly run by a Texas militia group....friendly and community-minded of course, but extremist in nature.

You can predict the one-hour scripts for the show.  Karl shows off his twenty-five gun assault rifle collection and mentions they might be necessary one day.  A bunch of guys recite to Constitution on Friday nights at the local bar.  Several women have set high standards and will only date true Conservative men.  The liberal teacher gets run out of town.

For some reason, I'm of the belief that the show will be mostly laughed about after the first episode.  A dismal viewing audience comes around for the second and third showing.  Around the fifth week....some network guy calls up the production team to tell them halt after ten episodes.

What this means?  Well....the network could be at the bottom of the barrel and just not seeing much of a selection for TV scripts.  The other possibility is that they start this series in October, and hope that it might whip up some political thoughts before the November election.  If you were in the network management team and politically-minded.....I could see some dopes buying off on your suggestion.

In the end.....you end up with a four-star loser of a script, but that's ok.....there's still more ideas out there.