Waiting for Sarah Palin

All this is rooted in the impulse to escape the squalor of earth as used-up hankie. We can’t seem to live here anymore. We’re polluting the air and the water; we’re using up resources; melting the ice; killing species; and on top of everything, we’ve come to hate each other, as well as the weather.

Last night, the U.S. Senate voted to advance a bill that everybody hates. It was done solely to demonstrate the power of the majority party. What’s worse is that very few of those voting knew what they were voting for. They did it simply for revenge; to poke a stick into the eye of the hated opposition.

George W. Bush was the most hated politician, certainly in my lifetime. Nixon came close, but Bush took the cake. He was so despised that the American people voted for an unknown and untested individual on blind faith. The argument was that nobody – absolutely nobody - could be worse than Bush. In addition, in their infinite wisdom, the American people elected clear Democrat majorities to both the House and Senate, abandoning any notion of checks and balances.

Now they sit here and condemn the blue dogs and anybody else who could have saved them from this health care debacle - and didn’t. Today, for instance, there is a lengthy editorial in the WSJ decrying the health care bill and making dire predictions - and putting it all on Nelson. When is it going to dawn on the good people at the WSJ and anybody else who got up this morning shaking their heads that elections have consequences? Elect a Marxist to the office of president and you will get Marxist policies. Brother will be turned against brother, young against old, rich against poor – and you’ll have your revolution. This is how it starts. It’s not funny. Hate! And you will see blood on your streets. It’s as simple as that. Throw any notion of checks and balances out the window and you end up rolling down this road without any brakes.

But we did it only because we hated Bush so much. Why did we really hate him? Why indeed! Was it the war? the torture? The truth is, we can’t really remember exactly. We hated him because every waking minute we were told to hate him; that it was cool to hate; it made us feel better to vent - and it cost us nothing. Bush was a convenient target; he was stupid-looking – bewildered by our hatred - like we ourselves are now, sitting with our thumbs up.... waiting for Sarah Palin to make the announcement.