Dreams of My Father

The Democrat Blue Dogs are gone – most of them – leaving behind a much more toxic mix. ‘Democrat’ has become a misnomer.

“National Democratic revolution” comes immediately to mind, along with “ideological integration, revolutionary imperative, minority domination, liberation alliance, unity…, infiltration, incursion, viable agency for change, reformist option, armed tactics, mass political mobilization in combination with legal, semi-legal and clandestine methods"; add to this: wealth re-distribution, protest, strike, disruption, shortages, smear campaigns, property confiscation, resistance; the breakdown of civility, morality; family, security, identity – all to create a general climate of collapse within which a Marxist solution becomes possible.

How far we have come since Obama’s election! - a man we knew next to nothing about. How much we have learned in the past two years! – about communism and Islam (which share similar goals).

We’ve gone from anointing a savior, to suspecting an incompetent, to tolerating an imbecile, to fearing an enemy. And still we submit to the theft of our privacy, to the judgment of medical death panels (what else would you call them) to be groped by minimum wage airport thugs – burka wearers excluded, of course.
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Italics taken from Nadine Gordimer’s “Burgers Daughter”.

Eli's Comin'!

All posturing aside. I, for one, am growing increasingly uncomfortable with our political situation. Our deepest fears are never spoken. When in the past I have written of America devolving into some Venezuelan-type autocracy, I have done so as a warning of what may be in the mind of our president, keeping in mind that there is yet another side that may serve to counter it. Incredibly, what I have been saying about Obama’s Democrats has come true by degrees. Incredibly, the Dems have shown a willingness to go along with almost everything, progressives and Blue Dogs alike. Incredibly, the MSM has not yet turned against them. Incredibly, Republicans are still taking the bait.

It is all well and good that there is now a third party that seems to have some grip on reality. The Tea Party reflects the nation’s general unease. Yet the pundits dismiss it as a flash-in-the-pan; as either amusement or poison that has the real potential to split Obama’s opposition.

The continued criticism of our own is, frankly, disheartening. But, what is even more ominous is the unwillingness to realistically assess the man in The White House and to acknowledge that, no matter what happens in November, he will still hold all the cards.

Even the Dems are running from him this political season. Should not also Republicans be running? And yet I see no sign of it. They are happily snapping up the bait, taking good advantage of the voter’s mood.

I have previously spoken of the tsunami that hit the eastern coast of India some years ago. The water was said to have been sucked out to sea as far as the eye could see. The curious walked out there in blind wonder. I remember when Route 24 was first being built, the kids and I would go out there and innocently play ball and ride our bikes. Meanwhile, the deer already knew not to go there - like the beach dogs in Chennai, racing up our street en masse, away from the ocean. The people had a nasty surprise coming when the sea returned. Most didn’t survive it.

It’s the same with our Republican candidates. They don’t seem to have a clue about what they’re getting themselves into. They seem to think they’ll be going to the market for some normall horse trading. It never occurs to them to question how easy it was for them to get in(to the trap).

The Pledge to America was a naïve attempt to give some purpose to their mission. Haven’t they noticed that nobody paid much attention? That they had missed the mark? Horse trading is no longer the issue. The fuses are lit; the big tent is on fire. The Blue Dogs are howling and pulling on their chains. Eli’s comin‘!

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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.