Wasting… Guyana’s time

Your Eyewitness is never surprised at the temerity of some political leaders to take their supporters for granted. Take a look at the schupidness that Aubrey Norton’s going on about with his recount demands and now an election petition. Obviously, he’s smarting at being bitch-slapped by Sanction Man something silly! But does he think that if he imitates the latter’s schupidness he’ll get back those scrapeheads who decamped en masse from him?? Let’s face it… scrapeheads just love schupidness!! In fact, schupidness describes their ontological condition!!
But Norton earned his spurs as the leader of his generation of scrapeheads who were then called “lumpen elements”! That was decades and decades ago when even the lumpens not only had an inkling about a bigger picture but cared about parts of that picture!! While Norton might LOOK like a troglodyte and speak in grunts – if you have the patience of Job, you’ll notice he tries to make sense!! Not so with Sanction Man!! He wouldn’t know sense if it crept up on him and bit him in his nether region!!
Do you think Norton would’ve had a fellow like Doggie doing PR for him – even in Bam Bam Alley?? Did you see Doggie in the suit and tie he donned a month ago to declare at his press conference that he was “a beautiful Guyanese citizen” – taking on, say, Jermaine Figueira?? Did he realise when he took that phone call during the presser and answered Sanction Man with at least TWENTY-SIX “yes sir”s, he was being a “Yes Man”??!! But these are the new scrapeheads who see Norton as yesterday’s news ‘cause he’ll expect more than two-word answers to questions!!
Norton should realise that after struggling for FIFTY years to earn his shot at the top rung, he’s tried to fit into a mould that’s now irrelevant to the Doggies and Fattas under Sanction Man’s money tree. Your Eyewitness thinks he can do one of two things. He can try sticking with the older PNC types who voted for him for old time’s sake, or he can hand over the reins of the PNC to a bona fide scrapehead who could out-scrape Sanction Man!! The real Scrape deal, so to speak!!
For the old-type PNC-ites who aspire to the pretensions of their founder-leader Burnham – they’ve never seen Norton as “one of them”!! As you can tell from Winson Jordan telling him to step down when he didn’t even lift a pen to defend Norton!! They’d given Norton a basket to fetch water and sniped at him when he couldn’t fill up the tank!! In both scenarios, the constant is Norton getting off the stage.
Go swiftly into the night, Norton!! Don’t waste more of Guyana’s time!!

…Political Capital
Another fella from the Opposition camp who’s waaaaay past his expiration date is the Black Pudding Man from Buxton. He seemed to’ve convinced Norton that he was “educated” because he had some letters in front and behind his name – and for a guy from Norton’s generation, that really matters. But that’s fifty years ago – when Dr Lloyd Best from T&T declared we Caribbean people practised “Doctor Politics”!! You had to be a “professional” with letters before and after your names!!
But this Black Pudding Man comically tried to be a scrapehead by calling PNC folks – who might wanna exercise their democratic right to support another party of their choice who they think might better address their needs – BT Lickers!! Because they didn’t understand they owed some sorta loyalty to “their people”!! He was so out of touch with today’s reality that he didn’t realise scrapeheads didn’t need no reason for doing things!!
In fact, it’s a turnoff!! WIN and PPP got more votes from Buxton than APNU!!

…GECOM’s time
It’s deeply disappointing to your Eyewitness that the Opposition-nominated Commissioners nixed GECOM’s scheduled Saturday night meeting to declare Irfaan Ali President – again!! They were simply delaying the inevitable – and prolonging the embarrassment of those who stuck with PNC!!