Who's Embarrassed?

Who’s embarrassed? The Dems won. The press is ecstatic. The Republicans got a stick in the eye; their noses rubbed in the mud. Representative governance got a black eye. Our economy gets another nudge toward total collapse. Union’s got theirs. The American people got their asses handed to them - doesn’t look to me like there’s anything to be embarrassed about. Last I looked, Pelosi and allies were celebrating.

There were people celebrating after 9/11 as well. They weren’t embarrassed either. Nobody’s embarrassed after they’ve just scored a big win. Imagine the Yankees not celebrating after a World Series romp! It will never happen. Only Republicans, after winning, are constantly apologizing, appeasing, and reaching across the aisle, seeking the hand of the enemy. That, in a nutshell is our domestic political picture anyway.

Internationally, it’s just the opposite. We go to our enemies and apologize our heads off. Just to prove to them how profoundly sorry we are, we disparage our allies publicly before the world.

Celebration and regret: We’ve confused when and where celebration is appropriate. We also don’t know when to express regret. This is due to the loss of our sense of self. We no longer know who we are and what we want to be. We’ve become a cardboard cutout of what we once were - blown aimlessly about by the political winds; crawling in the gutter like the pages of yesterday’s news.