Announcing Macbeth Tomorrow Award of Achievement

• I propose a bronze bust award for politicians who at one time exhibited an extra ordinary accomplishment or act of bravery in their life.
• However some have lingered a bit too long on the world stage.
I propose that we name this award the Macbeth Tomorrow Award of Achievement.
• I propose that we build a wing on the Smithsonian to house the bust and tributes to these remarkable people for their accomplishments.
• I also propose that we retire them to the history books because they have had their hour upon the stage and then be heard no more.
• I propose that their hour of strutting and fretting on the stage is over.
• An occasional presentation of an honorable mention in the toilet roll of minutes for those non heroes who should be retired just because. No bust will be awarded for this distinction and they will receive an "idiot, full of sound and fury" badge .
• I propose that the honorable mentions have also had their hour of strutting and fretting on the stage and it is over.
• This honor will be awarded on a non-partisan basis.
• Those refusing to accept the awards will be escorted to the Richard Nixon wing of the "You won't have me to kick around anymore Pavilion" until they acquiesce to retirement.

Macbeth:

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.


   Accordingly, we honor the following persons and escort them to the  STAGE LEFT EXIT,  where they may continue to bask in the appreciative thanks of a grateful nation. Their understudies will enter UPSTAGE (1), to restore some relevance to the idea that your fifteen minutes are up.

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   Nominations are still open and we are accepting applications for this prestigious award. The award will be decided based on a majority vote of Me, Myself and I. The only requirement is for the recipient to acknowledge that:

ITS OVER

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   1 You might be interested to know that there used to be a greater significance in the difference between upstage and downstage: old stages were often built on a rake, sloping gently upward from the audience. "Upstaging" was thus all the more a sin, exalting the upstager as well as forcing the other actors to turn their backs on the audience.