An open thread for resolutions for 2014: yours, or one you’d care to assign to an elected official or other member of the Politerati.
My resolution is the same every year:
Write more, eat less.
But I occasionally throw in a curveball, and I’m considering a couple this year, but they’re stuck in committee.
UPDATE: You guys are no fun. I’ll start.
Michelle Wu: May she agree to not hurt progressive causes, or at least not claim to be helping progressives by not helping them.
Ed Markey: May he never vote “Present,” on anything.
Elizabeth Warren: May she keep pressing for financial fairness, but go beyond statements and yelling at some mid-level, underfunded regulators.
Barack Obama: You made a good faith effort to work with Republicans, and you even tailored legislation to accommodate them. But they still continue, not to oppose you (which is their job), but to try to destroy you. Sorry, I don’t like to say it either, but it’s time to pay them back in kind.
David Bernstein: Continue the great reporting, but stop giving everything a cutesy name.
Richard Cohen: Look in the mirror. Read your next column aloud to yourself before you turn it in. Take some time off.
Senate Democratic Caucus: Now, while you still have the chamber, recognize that guns are a national crisis, and act accordingly. Also — keep the chamber.
Mayor Walsh: May he fulfill the promise of the campaign, and a lead a diverse, vibrant city where labor has a voice. Also, marry that girl, willya? You were wise not to propose during the campaign, they’re too chaotic. But now it’s time, it will be like Camelot. Wait, that will be annoying, so forget it. Dump her and move on. Start dating Ayanna Pressley.
JimC says
… as a palette-cleaning exercise.
JimC says
See above.