History is its own recycling bin.
Soon we may see an unraveling of Democrat control over the country. In a resurrection of similar mistakes made a decade ago, the Democrat party is engineering their own defeat, and in a hurry. Democrats tend to go for broke and in the process break themselves, unlike Republicans who patiently shoot off one toe at a time.
This toe targeting analogy brings to fore the latest failing of dunderheaded donkeys. For all their ideological alignment, Democrats time and again demonstrate indifference to The People. This is important since all power derives from the consent of the masses, which explains why the Democrats support taking guns away from the rabble – Democrats prefer to operate without consent.
This desire to rule instead of being ruled is what caused alleged people like Pelosi and Halfwit Harry to plow ahead with their ideological designs whilst The People yelled “no” directly into elected faces. No WABAC Machine is required to dredge up newscast-images of working wonk moms, armed with a 1,000 inkjet pages of proposed legislation and confronting their representatives at town hall meetings. Despite polls staggeringly opposed to the rigging of health insurance and near violent confrontations with angry, informed mothers, Democrats continued pushing the unpopular while engineering snaky deals in order to reach their end goal of total government health care control.
The last time they operated this way was the year 2000, and the subject then was gun control (a topic of which I know a little).
Gun control has been an increasingly loosing political issue in America for three decades. Recurring public opinion polls show fewer people supporting more of the stuff. Little wonder. In that same period America has gone from a mere ten states allowing concealed carry of weapons to forty. Yet despite polling, regardless of states loosening local gun control laws, and notwithstanding a growing satisfaction among increasingly armed people, Democrats committed a full frontal assault to enact more gun control. No less of a man than Bill Clinton (and there are no lesser men) led the charge, with his imbecilic acolyte Al Gore aping the agenda while campaigning for the presidency (you know, Al Gore, the fellow whose Earth in the Balance Armageddon book proved to be as accurate as William Miller).
Gore lost that election, Bush took the White House, and the GOP removed their shoes and started firing.
Americans have three nasty tendencies. The read, they talk, and they vote. Even in ages before the Internet, voters wrestled with issues and debated the merits of all enactments (People with limited perspective use the phrase “Founding Fathers” to glorify a handful of Americans who authored the U.S. constitution, while ignoring that nearly every colonist read, debated and only then, ratified the same. In the aftermath of ratification, one visitor to The States said – and I heavily paraphrase – “Every American is a bloody lawyer!”) Today, armed with the Internet, every American has vastly expanded abilities to research and debate, if digital partisan flame throwing can be called debate.
Thus the fate of our nation has never been in the hands of elites, and it is even less so today.
These observation are related to this week’s election in Massachusetts; the elevation of a Republican to a Senate seat involuntarily vacated by the very vanguard of the Democrat party, and in a state where jackasses outnumber pacaderms by three-to-one. Accepting the fact that Scott Brown’s opponent was a rhetorical weakling with the charisma of a cave bat, it is still stunning that he won. Numerically the odds were against him and the Massachusetts Democrat machinery was menacing. Obama carried 62% of Massachusetts voters in his rise to the White House. He and his policies should have carried weight in this election.
Neither did.
Foremost, Brown campaigned openly against Obama’s Soviet-style HMO plan. Brown’s strategy was one of hopeful audacity. This is no small aside. Realigning health insurance is the signature item of the wounded Obama agenda. To openly campaign against the president’s foremost initiative was not the gamble some pundits assume. According to surveys, 85% of American have health insurance, 80% of them are happy with their coverage, and with each passing month more voters became unhappy with how the Democrats planned on changing that. Indeed, 56% of Massachusetts voters said health care was their primary concern, and 78% of voters that backed Brown did so specifically to abort Obamacare. Meanwhile on Capitol Hill, borderline criminal deals cut with soon-to-be former members of the Senate, offering their constituents amelioration not afforded to everyone else, turned voter resistance into open anger.
This included Massachusetts voters. It takes some mightily shady dealings to make Boston Democrats vote GOP.
As with gun control in 2000, the Democrats are attempting to do to the people what the people do not want done to them (in a sexual context, this would be called rape, which would carry on a proud Kennedy tradition). As in 2000 the people responded with their first two boxes – the soap box and the ballot box. This leaves Democrats a mere nine months to make voters think that the majority party should remain such, that they are not a band of heavy handed hooligans who are openly indifferent to the source of true power.
They will fail.
The source of their defeat is in the White House. Instead of administering to pressing issues of war and economy, Obama instead sought to remove the prerogative of the people concerning their health. In the smolder of defeat, he claims he will continue his inept battle while also refocusing his obsessions on banks who, despite mythology, were not responsible for our current economic woes. In a misguided attempt to channel voter discontent over the economy (which Obama amplified through his mismanagement thereof), Barack wants to turn screws on banks. In his best faux Chicago street-tough façade, Obama said of the banks “If these folks want a fight, it’s a fight I’m ready to have.” Of course, five days before Brown’s election Obama said “If Republicans want to campaign against what we’ve done … that is a fight I want to have.”
Gotta give the man credit for tenacity. Brain-dead, bulldog, bite everybody until the dog pound takes you away tenacity.
But the real fight now comes from fellow Democrats. No less of a mind than Robert Scheer (and there are no lesser minds than his) railed against Obama. First Obama’s policies and tactics caused a revolt among The People. Now his policies are causing revolt within the ranks. All wars and battles are lost when one or another army enters a state of disarray. Obama opposed the will of the people, which lost his party an iconic Massachusetts battle, and now his troops have started shooting one another.
Republicans, start unlacing your shoes – your turn at target practice is soon coming.
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