Grasping At Straws

Of course Obama 'stands pat' with the script. He is the anvil on which our political system is forged into a new beast. Suppose in the next election cycle we are faced with four parties instead of two. Would we be prepared to deal with that? We are not used to a parliamentarian system. We still worry about what would happen if a third party were introduced into the mix. What about four? Clearly, the Republican Party has fractured; clearly, the Democrat Party is fracturing.

Already words like 'ungovernable' are being heard. Today there was an editorial by Bret Stevens in the WSJ entitled: “Iraqis Embrace Democracy. Do We?” Why are we so willing to have the whole notion of representative governance undermined? Why would so many of us agree that legislative gridlock can be blamed on a leader who is either inept or prevented from executing his mandate by a fatally flawed system? It never occurs to many of us that the agenda itself could be flawed. It never occurs to us that the real agenda may not be health care, cap and trade, comprehensive immigration reform, gay rights, abortion or even jobs. The agenda may well be to paralyze our system of governance. Four or more political parties could do it, leaving only the executive branch as a viable way forward.

Of course Obama stands pat and pushes for the impossible to happen. When it doesn't, the system is declared broken; ergo a new system is called for; a system along the lines of totalitarian rule. Obama is not behaving like he's worried about the next election. Why? Could it be because he believes he will have broken the system by then? All the calamities that are certain to accrue will only strengthen his hand. He will not blame himself; he will not apologize; he will not commit seppuku. He will offer himself as the only viable alternative to broken, discredited governance. And the people, in the throes of calamitous upheavals will grasp at straws.

Rush may only be partly right when he says that the aim of putting a majority of Americans on the public dole is for the sole purpose of keeping Democrats in the majority in perpetuity. The real purpose of this sordid exercise may not be so much to keep Democrats in power, but to keep Obama in power (in perpetuity).