Bill and Hillary: Driving the Left into a Ditch?
Within a few days former Clinton political consultant Paul Begala wrote an article for the Huffington Post that urged Democrats: “Pass the Senate Bill, Please.” It was a challenge. Man up, you wussies.
You’re going to get the attack anyway, you may as well get the accomplishment. I don’t mean to be rude, but if health care is the kiss of death, you’ve already been kissed.
On that very same day the Financial Times carried an editorial by James Carville, chief political strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. He advised Democrats to just blame George W. Bush for all of their problems.
Democrats would not be playing the blame game with one another for the loss or for the health care debacle if they had only pointed fingers at those (or in this case, the one) who put Americans (and most of the world) in the predicament we’re in: George W. Bush.
Blaming Bush is just what President Barack Obama has been doing for his entire first year in office, and it isn’t working anymore. While paying lip service to bipartisanship, Obama has restated his promise to keep pushing his own brand of health care reform — opposite of what Bill Clinton himself had done.
Why? Hillary.
Bill Clinton has been engaged in the kind of politicking that would have been considered unseemly not so long ago. Former presidents just don’t do politics after serving two terms in the White House, but Bill Clinton is not like other former two-term presidents. It’s still possible, though not necessarily probable, that he could be back for another two terms at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, this time as first gentleman to the first woman president of the United States.
In the Clinton strategy for getting there, three elements emerge. First is to attack the left. Lanny Davis launched the first wave, blaming the left for Martha Coakley’s defeat in Massachusetts and calling for the more centrist New Democrats to save the party.
The second element of the strategy is to goad the leading leftist Democrats into ramming their policies down American throats. Bill Clinton, Paul Begala, and a host of others are pressuring Obama, Reid, and Pelosi to keep pushing that health care legislation, and don’t worry that the majority of voters oppose it. Those tea party Americans are too dumb to know what’s in their own best interest, and it’s up to the left to impose it on them.
The third piece is Carville’s finger of blame. After more than a year listening to Obama blaming George W. Bush for all of America’s problems, the message is losing its potency. It’s just another way for the left to insist that it bears no responsibility for anything ever. The laser-like focus on avoiding their own blame for past problems convinces more and more people that Democrats haven’t the slightest clue and even less interest in really solving problems. Instead, any legislation to make its way through this leftist dominated Congress is designed first and foremost to strengthen their grip on power.
If Democrat leaders diligently follow the Clinton team prescription, by the time November 2010 rolls around they will be intensely unpopular. The tea party faithful will be incensed and motivated, and the left can expect to get an historic shellacking on Election Day.
But Hillary will have no connection to that defeat. She stands ready to step in as that New Democrat Lanny Davis is looking for. By opposing the far left of her party she might even tap into tea party outrage at the leftist assault on our liberties, our health care, and our free market economy. She could offer herself to tea party independents as the New Democrat alternative to a return to Republican rule.
Hillary Clinton will be running for president. A challenge to Obama in 2012 is not outside the realm of possibility, but it would be very risky. Failing to win the nomination in 2012 would most likely kill her chances for a run at it in 2016. She’ll do it only if Obama’s poll numbers continue to slide.
The Clinton team is helping those numbers along.
Iagree with most of what is written here. Hillary will run, ther’s no question; although she;s been a disaster in her job as secretary of state. She’s clueless as ever, and does not live up to her label ‘as the smartest woman in the world’. She’s as slick, and corrupt as the current snakesoil salesman in the white house.
Maybe Dick Morris was ‘Clinton’s brain’ ?
Bill Clinton is a smooth operator that knows how to make people happy while he seduces them.
Barrack Obama is an arrogant, cocky smart ass that covers his own ignorance and stupidity up by controlling or intimidating people with brute force.
I suspect some of what this article says is true, but not for the reasons and purposes it advances.
This is payback time folks. The kind of sweet payback and revenge that only comes from knowing that your enemies knows they have been fatally wounded by you, but there isn’t a damn thing that they can do about it.
Barrack Obama, his cronies and thugs, the worshiping lunatics in Congress and the mainstream media have succeeded in enraging the public far past anything the Clintons could possibly overcome.
Bill and Hillary know this. They also know that the Democrat Party is going to get its clock cleaned royal beginning this November and extending well past 2012.
If their’s can be the wooden stake through the black heart of the monster that is destroying America then I say God speed and more power to them!
MID NOVEMBER 2010
WHITEHOUSE, OVAL OFFICE
WASHINGTON DC
MESSRS OBAMA, CLINTON
Mr. President, I’d like to thank you for letting me serve as your Secretary of State, but with Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid gone and Congress controlled by the Republicans, I believe that it is time for me to step aside so that you, Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers can best prepare for governing and, of course your own reelection.
“Er, Ugh.. why thank you Hillary. Let me be clear that I am so sorry to see you go. Would you like one of my CDs or a pair of cuff-links for Bill before you go?”
I appreciate it Sir, but Bill and I plan on a quiet and simple family celebration of Christmas this year. Good luck Mr. President.
Could it be that Obama’s tele-prompters blocked the view of a huge piece of Mistletoe hanging from the back of Hillary’s dress just below her waist as she walked out of the room?
Tom Bowler, you are reading the Clintons perfectly.
” It’s still possible, though not necessarily probable, that he could be back for another two terms at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, this time as first gentleman to the first woman president of the United States.” and that’s what this is all about. bojangles is an amateur and bordere-line incompetent at best. The Clintons see that and see the opportunity they though was lost re-appearing. Unbridled lust for power and legacy in a nutshell. The healthcare fraud is simply the blade of the dagger they are sliding into the dunce’s ribs.
You seem to imply that Obama, Pellosi et al are doing something against their will and better judgement. I think you need to establish first that the ruling Dems have better judgement. I haven’t seen any evidence of that.
I don’t know whether the Clintons are doing this or not but they have to be plenty concerned about the strength of the Democratic party if the elitists/statists/socialists control it. Obama’s coalition is not as broad and inclusive as the Clintons’, and unlikely to be as enduring. If you care about the D party, and they do, then they may be as willing to see Obama be cannon fodder as he is indifferent about House and Senate centrists’ fate in supporting his health care proposal.
Maybe the Clintons have made their peace with how they were treated during the 2008 campaign–she likely has and he is probably still as angry as I am. She was pushed aside for an inferior candidate. I campaigned for HRC in two states other than my own and yes, I heard the concerns about her, and about Bill, but I never heard doubts about her love of country or ability to keep us safe. Admittedly, I am not without some bias in favor of Hill and Bill.
Are they driving the left into a ditch? If they are, it’s well deserved payback.
Hilary will be too old in 2016 when she’ll have to stand next to a bevy of younger, more articulate females without botox.
2012 or bust.
Bust.
Insightful analysis, and correct. Many in the middle-left, union members and women, think Hill was unfairly treated in 2008. They also think she would be much better than you know who.
At first glance, accepting the Sec. of State job seemed a foolish step down. Now, sitting high above the mess, she looks like the political genius she and Lanny Davis claim her to be.
In 18 months Obama has streaked from historic choice to history footnote. The drums are beating, race is out, gender is in, 2012 will be the “babes death match:” Clinton v. Palin.
And, just like what happened on the night the Titanic sank, the band played on.
Mr. Bowler:
“But Hillary will have no connection to that defeat. She stands ready to step in as that New Democrat Lanny Davis is looking for. By opposing the far left of her party she might even tap into tea party outrage at the leftist assault on our liberties, our health care, and our free market economy. She could offer herself to tea party independents as the New Democrat alternative to a return to Republican rule.”
Maybe in her mind, but neither she nor Bill are as great a politician as thy are touted to be.
What you characterize as Bill Clinton’s two “succesful terms” were actually political failures for him.
His liberal policies and classic statist “tax and spend” initiatives of his first two years cost his party the Congress, and his second term was undone by his personal degeneracy causing him to be impeached. And like it or not, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 stand as the Clinton Legacy.
Likewise, Hillary has made some egregious political blunders of her own; the:
“I didn’t stay home and bake cookies!”
line comes to mind.
This needlessly pissed off women who did have jobs as homemakers to the point where shortly thereafter Hillary had to “represent” in a photo op staged with her in an apron and serving cookies to the White House press corps.
Then there was her entire approach to HillaryCare, closeting herself with Ira Magaziner and her other hand-picked cronies, like a meeting of some latter-day STAVKA, this went a very long way towards energizing opposition to her initiative.
And finally there was her appearance in New York City at the post 9/11 World Series. The crowd of New Yorkers there recognized her for the carpetbagger that she was, and lustily booed her accordingly.
From where the Clintons get this reputation for being such great politicians is beyond me.
He’s a smarmy moral degenerate with a zipper problem, she’s a pushy climber with the soul of a jackal, and each of them is the other’s worst enemy…
such charming people, eh?
And the upshot to all this is that Hillary cannot emerge unscathed from the debacle of the Alleged Hawaiian’s Administration unless she bails out very, very soon…but doing so will cause the UberFrauFuhrer an entirely different set of problems.
pelaut:
Hilary will be too old in 2016 when she’ll have to stand next to a bevy of younger, more articulate females without botox.
2012 or bust.Bust. Feb 27, 2010 – 5:36 am
Je suis d’accord. She’s not the picture of eternal youth. She may already be too old.
American’s are not fooled by Washington’s lefties planned takeover.
Take the Cash for Clunkers program as an example. Remember,,, this was one of their better ideas.
Think of it this way:
A clunker that travels 12,000 miles a year at 15 mpg uses 800 gallons of gas a year. The more economical vehicle that travels 12,000 miles a year at 25 mpg uses 480 gallons a year.
So, the average Cash for Clunkers transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.
They claim 700,000 vehicles, so that’s 224 million gallons saved per year.
That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil. 5 million barrels is about 5 hours worth of US consumption.
More importantly, 5 million barrels of oil at $79 (currently) per barrel costs about $395 million dollars. So, the government paid $3 Billion of our tax dollars to save $395 million.
In other words, we spent $7.65 for every dollar we saved.
Compared to Health Care, Cash for Clunkers was a good deal.
So in another year we should be hearing about oval office on the job BJs with a Norma Jean look a like intern, among other “bimbo eruptions” in the wake of blown Health Care Reform. Yup, Hillary in 2012, but Al Gore never said we wont have him to kick around anymore. He even has an Oscar and, remember, George Bush stole that election from him. He’s even a billionaire after shilling the low carbon life style for everyone else, so crazy as a fox Al should have plenty of money to run with. Yup, I can see Al now, “I have a plan to end the war”–very Nixonian, circa 68. Of course, a democratic meltdown in Chicago did help Nixon, but todays republicans don’t have a lot of bragging rights.
It will be interesting to see if Hillary can steer clear of blame but I think the public is not going to vote another Democrat into the White House for a long time.
she;s been a disaster in her job as secretary of state. She’s clueless as ever, and does not live up to her label ‘as the smartest woman in the world’.
I can see things playing out exactly as you suppose — Hillary gains Democratic nomination in 2012. Then, as the Fates will have it, she is trounced by Palin.
she;s been a disaster in her job as secretary of state. She’s clueless as ever, and does not live up to her label ‘as the smartest woman in the world’.
LeighB, you hear that? It’s true. I really wonder how people manage to support that woman despite her “sniper fire” lie, which revealed a character so flawed or deluded that she’d make most people back away from her at a New Year’s Eve party much less work to get her into the Oval Office.
I’ve read the comments here and I’m still wondering about the Clintons’ game. Another commenter, another forum came up with the idea I think most likely: the Clintons will not want to inherit the problems of this country after the smash-and-grab looting of the current administration. Look for them to go international and get cush jobs at the head of some big, lucrative NGOs where they can make a billion assisting energy deals with crooked tyrants. Hillary is passing out business cards as we speak, and whispering the name of the next extension of the Clinton project: Representative Chelsea, D-New York.
Also–Iran is going to get the bomb and Obama has done zero to prevent that, other than polishing their jackboots with his tongue.
Hillary , right before the Iranians test their first bomb or announce they already have a some manufactured, can quit in disgust saying that Obama actively prevented her from being tough on Iran.
And maybe…she’d actually be telling the truth.
(It’s no secret that amongst hipster/nihilist/suicide chic/leftist academia an Iranian bomb is considered a desireable counterbalance to “american imperialism”)
Boris and Natasha Clinton
Hillary? 2012? You’ve got to be kidding me. Hillary a “new Democrat”? What is that? Explain what a “new Democrat” is and how Hillary is one? These upcoming mid term and presidential elections will be the public majority against progressivism. How will Hillary explain when she said in a debate “I don’t think I’m liberal I consider myself a progressive”? These elections will be against TAXES and large government. How will she explain when she told the leaders of pakistan that they should be taxing their people. after all, as she said, “we do it in America we tax everything that moves”. The American people have had enough of decades of Bush Clinton Bush Obama with Clinton cronies and then what? another Clinton again? I don’t think so. Clinton should’ve parked her fat ass back in her Senate seat. her performance as Sec state has left something to be desired. The Clintons are over.
arhooley, I appreciate your concern for my hearing, no worries on that front (even though I am huge fan of The Who). I have great enthusiasm for the left being driven in the ditch, however they get there. If Hillary were to be the nominee in 2012 and face off against Palin, that would be great. My hunch is the next Clinton to run for public office will be Chelsea.
The African debacle did it for me.
‘I’m not channeling Bill Clinton’, with such righteous anger you wonder whether it was her anger as the scorned woman, or an almost racist slur against the African who innocently posed the question.
Either shows a weakness. The first her thin skin, the second a haughty woman reduced to a cuckold and taking it out on perceived lessers.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
Maybe Willie is just being a good democrat with a small c.
Maybe.
Or maybe the radicals who have taken control of the Democratic party are playing good cop/bad cop with America and they purposely make us dream of political subtleties when the simple truth is that the radicals are successfully attacking America’s might, America’s Freedom, America’s economy.
Let’s not forget: we think politics, the marxists think WAR.
While this might make me muy unpopular…I’ll go ahead and say it: I’ll take a Clinton over an Obama any day, and frankly given Bush’s fiscal record, I might even take a Clinton over a Bush.
I’m still torn on that one.
What I want to see out of the Dems, is the “centrists” chasing the “progressives” out of the party entirely. I want the progressives chased out of the national discourse altogether. Let them form a green socialist party and be the vanity choice for San Francisco, Portland, Austin etc. Remember when the Republican party was being told it’s fate was as a regional rump party? Thats what I want to see happen to the progressives.
Mr. Bowler’s hypothesis could well be correct, but so what?
Pols on the right like Newt Gingrich and Lamar Alexander are just as myopically mired in short-range tactics as the leftist individuals cited in this article. Worst of all, increasing Washington’s control over health care helps every pragmatist pol in *both* parties for another generation or two until the US finally collapses into total bankruptcy and stagnation.
Therein lies the reason for the immense power of the tea party advocates: they are the only ones blasting all this tactical drivel to hell – by undercutting it root and branch with the principle of inalienable individual rights and a government strictly limited to protecting those rights through police, courts, military, and a part-time legislature.
Everyone else is just advocating some variant of cannibalism, and more and more of the tea party attendees know it. Contrary to what we’ve all been taught for over a century, principles *always* trump pragmatism.
12. Bilgeman:
great post, i wish i wrote it.
When was the last time a sitting president failed to get his parties nomination? Buchanan damage Bush elder in 92, many Dems damaged Carter in 1980, but each time the president got the nomination. Johnson bailed on 1968, but secured the nomination for his vep. I don’t think it happened in 100 years.
Hillary has to leave the administration, smack down the hard left, win the democratic nomination and with a shattered democratic party win the general election. Plus Obama has to play the patsy and not run as an independent. That is a tall order. I hope they enjoy the journey because they wont reach the destination.
very interesting article. I wouldn’t put it past them.
it’s interesting to see that Clinton-hating is still alive and well, albeit in the bowels of the internets. personally I thought Clinton was a pretty good president, especially compared to the one we have now. and I think Hillary would have been a far better president than O.
does anyone really think we’d be in the horrible shape we’re in if HRC had won? and if she’d won the nom she would have beaten McCain, who wouldn’t have picked Palin…etc etc etc ad nauseam…at least the Clintons know how to play the game, which is more than you can say for the incompetent Obama administration.
for logdon above who says “the African debacle” did it for him–really? Hillary misunderstood a question and that’s what finally tore it for you? that’s it? you have a low tolerance for error, I see.
it would be brilliant if this was truly the Clintons’ plan. I’d love to see them stick it to Barack.
Why does no one besides Davis speak out? Because many former Clintonistas bailed on the Clintons and got on the new guy’s bandwagon. Jockeying for power. It’s why she lost. The Super-Delegates, including those who owed Bill, bailed on Hillary.
Could they be maneuvering? Maybe. They might be angling for some payback. Do they believe in doing so, they could get back into power? I seriously doubt it. 2008 was Hillary’s only chance, and she blew it by being too soft on Obama.
I think the better explanation is far simpler. These guys actually believe in the same agenda. They WANT universal healthcare, whether you call it ObamaCare or HillaryCare, they DON’T care. They are Progressives, and internationalist ones at that. They believe in the New World Order.
It’s really that simple. They urge Obama on, because, after all, it’s simply not THEIR political asses on the line. It’s easy to flack for it, when you have no skin in the game.
#12: “. .she’s a pushy climber with the soul of a jackal”
An insult to all jackals.
If Democrat leaders diligently follow the Clinton team prescription, by the time November 2010 rolls around they will be intensely unpopular.
This should read they will be even more intensely unpopular than they already are.
In fact its already beyond unpopular,there is an intense anger closer to hatred than unpopularity. Voters are now getting the message that these progressives not only don’t care about the suffering of the American public, they won’t be happy until America and American’s are brought to their knees in submission to the new rulers of what was once a free people. This kind of hatred for these subversive policies will not be forgotten even if Obama or Democrats decide to move to the center. The cleverly hidden face of totalitarianism is now in plain view and we will not forget what they tried to do.
I follow the logic as it regards the Clintons. I see no evidence that President Obama or any of his Chicago hacks have any positive regard for the Clinton’s opinions or advice or anyone else’s for that matter. Pelosi et al are following the dictates of their ideology; the president is doing the same and only cares about his Bolshevik legacy. The congressional leadership and the president may be unaware of the damage their policies are doing to the Democratic Party I’m sure President Obama doesn’t care. If Hillary Clinton challenged Obama for the nomination in 2012 the Democrats would eat themselves dividing along racial lines. The only way Hillary runs in 2012 is if Obama does a LBJ and decides not to run “for the good of the country”. If Obama runs for and wins a second term by the time 2016 arrives we’ll be conducting our political discourse with flint knives as that will be the only thing we have left.
It wasn’t just Hillarycare.
Bill Clinton promised a middle class tax cut, but shortly after he took office that turned into a large tax increase on everyone.
Bill Clinton promised to allow homosexuals in the military, although shortly after he took office that was modified into “Don’t ask don’t tell.”
Bill Clinton signed into law a vastly tougher CRA just after he took office and Janet Reno threatened to prosecute firms who did not give firms to minority applicants who could not otherwise qualify. And today, despite the financial meltdown that was driven so much by the CRA, the Democrats in Congress are proposing expanding the program.
Is this beginning to sound familiar?
It is just possible that Billary learned nothing from their mistakes and is giving honest advice to the administration.
The Left is motivated by neither principles nor common sense but by a trendy deisgner bag of worn out socialist mythologies. They have no choice but to paw through that bag in search of ideas; to do otherwise would be to deny who they are.
The Democratic Party is controlled by George Soros period.
The Clintons like Obama work for Soros
Obama’s Boss: Ready to Torpedo the Euro
By Joy Tiz Friday, February 26, 2010
It’s astonishing that so many commentators seem genuinely confused about the real power behind the Democrats. They talk about Obama’s plans as if he were some kind of normal president who just happens to be very bad at it. In reality, Obama has little sway over his own operation. All the ruminating about whether Obama will now move toward the center or modify his policies to reflect the will of the people is sophomoric. It is inexplicable to suggest that Obama has the freedom to run afoul of his boss’s orders.
Ed Lasky at American Thinker explains how Obama’s boss, unrepentant Nazi collaborator, George Soros enjoys the benefits of liberal hypocrisy as well as America’s misery:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20435
I think Mr. owler is dead on re the Clinton’s strategy for the Clintons. It is driven not just by enduring ambition but by a bitter desire for revenge. Recall Bill’s open rage when Obama, who the Clinton’s regarded, rightly, as a transparently contemptible Chicago mediocrity, stole the candidacy from Hillary. From that day they have been out to get him.
There is no doubt in my mind that they see this as a big opportunity for Hillary in “12, and certainly those Democrats who feel that Obama has betrayed them will rally behind her. But the radical left remains dedicated to Obama and his ideology. They are a substantial number and hey will do everything in their power to destroy her. What they are doing to Sarah Palin is nothing to what they will do to Hillary – and they’ll have a lot more dirt to work on.
Forget the talk about the talk of he split in the Republicans. A Clinton “defection” will really cook the Democrats’ goose. The Obama presidency compounded by the Clinton’s Revenge will rip them apart. There is a far greater likelihood of a third-party on the eft than on the right.
And Hillary will forever be marked for her craven, self-demeaning service to the Obama administration.
Hillary is joined at the hip with Obamao as his sec. of state. The American public is as likely to buy her as a president as they would to reconsider McCain as a viable candidate.
Bill is driving Miss Hillary right into the same ditch. But it will continue to be fun to watch. Popcorn anyone?
#36 John Galt:
“The Democratic Party is controlled by George Soros period.
The Clintons like Obama work for Soros”
Naaah, I don’t buy the “Soros = Doctor Eeeevil” meme.
He’s certainly powerful, there’s no denying that he swings the big moonbat d!ck over in the sweat-lodge, but as far as dictating the entire agenda of the Dems?
Hardly.
If he was that powerful and that destructive, his Gulfstream would have suffered a catastrophic in-flight malfunction by this point.
I would imagine that there’s a crew of anonymous civil servants in a nondescript government office suite with an innocuous-sounding name somewhere who are tasked with discreetly keeping tabs on rich sh!tpokes who would be “King”.
And even more discreetly applying a mortal “attitude adjustment” when such is deemed necessary.
If there isn’t, there should be, since it is a fatal flaw of our political system that foreign interests can buy their way in to our process, and not just by such crass mechanisms as campaign donations, but also by foreign equity holdings in media companies and financial institutions.
The problem in all of this is that there is only one President in the Clinton household and his name is not Hillary.
Old Democrat, new democrat.
.Hillary wants to be president, and the woman will find a way to run in 2012 and many unhappy dems will vote for her..
sallie wrote:
“Hillary wants to be president, and the woman will find a way…”
Yes and here is HOW she will do it.
FIRST: Create a new Religion (done in 2008)
SECOND: Build a new Messiah (done in 2008)
THIRD: Take away the “greatest Man ever born” (soon to happen)
then: console the heart broken and become the NEW SAVIOR (yes she can)
She will be sweep into the white house after the tragic demise of the imposter in chief
Our next President will have the best hair. Good hair sells to a public that doesn’t pay enough attention they can’t tell the difference between Tina Fey and Sarah Palin, who btw has great hair.
I wouldn’t mind if the Clintons drove the Obami into the ditch so Hillary can run in 2012. If the Republicans field anyone halfway decent, she’s toast, and we’re rid of the lot of them.
#44 Chuck:
“Our next President will have the best hair.”
If that’s the case, then it’ll be Romney in a landslide. Whatever your feelings about the man, (mine are ambivalent), he has a head of hair that even the Almighty would envy.
Bask in its wonderfulness:
http://aprilbrunjes.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/gov_romneyfree_image-798232.jpg
Admit it…even the Savior Lord Jesus didn’t have hair this good.
14. Function-derivative fallacy. We spent $7.65 to save $1 per year, not $1. Not saying it was a good idea, because of what we did with the old cars, but the payback on this is about nine years.
Mr. Bowler,
Is Ann Coulter the only non-Obama worshiper with any vision. I mean, man, listening to one of the greatest Americans, John McCain,
spitter and sputter at the anointed one’s Summit made me cringe. Likewise, listening to the Democrats makes me sit in bemusement
as da dems back the healthcare nag that nobody’s cheered for since it stumbled out of the healthcare starting gate many months ago.
But even if they could, des Dems, with Obama leading this bunch of wrong way Corrigans, won’t change direction. And you wonder why. Even though a huge ditch is in full view, it’s full speed ahead.
Tom, (can I call you Tom?) why don’t nobody think to grab the steering wheel and pull it to the right? Have all of the anointed one’s aides drunk the cat’s kool-aid? Why do they seem so comfortable heading into a Mondale sized political abyss?
Pourquoi?
Well, try looking at it from their perspective. Let me ask you. Why did the kamikaze pilots auger into the ships at Okinawa? And don’t ask me why they wore helmets. Why did the Vietnameze fight with such feracity? Because they were true believers. Dems are true believers, too. Up to a point.
There’s something missing from everybody’s analysis. Da dems seem fearless about political defeat. They have no urgency. They don’t seem to care that most Americans are foursquare against them. Diametrically opposed to them. What’s going on? Tom Bowler rightly calls it bizarre.
Part of what Hannity, Savage, Hewitt, O’reilly, Ingraham, Beck have missed. The forest for the trees. Why do the dems keep on veering left into oblivion? Because they have a huge cushion.
They can’t get hurt. They feel bulletproof. This is the source of Obama’s deep seated condescension. It’s the source of Pelosi’s and Reid’s confidence. Axelrod is part of this. They all feel protected from harm. The Dems who are going to get electorally slaughtered in 2010 and beyond feel that they’re in some way protected. Folks. The cushion, the kevlar vest, the parachute, the airbag, the backstop.
Not only do they mean the same thing to these political pukes, but they’re made out of the same material. Paper. Yes paper. What in the world makes these scallywags think they’re insulated from political harm?
MONEY. They have a 600 billion dollar cushion.
Why do you think only a small percentage of the Stimulus money’s been spent? Because it’s part of a huge slush
fund that’s been promised to all these politicians courting electoral disaster. Basically, these damn Dems care more about money than they do their leftist ideology. That’s why they deserve no respect. That’s what separates them from honest to goodness true believers. These pitiful bottom feeders would be calling for the straight and narrow if they didn’t have billions to fall back on. With Holder as attorney general, and ethics nowhere to be found, the billions are under Obama control. Remember the missing monies, for example, sent to Florida districts that don’t exist? It was a setup so in later years the Dems can say, “we should have kept better track of it but we didn’t.” Hello. We’ve got a huge tax cheat running the IRS. A party can’t go straight when everybody’s crooked. And it can’t be caught because any evidence will magically disappear. 600 billion dollars to spread around. There aren’t enough handcuffs to go around.
All this is what Hannity and the rest are missing.
These bums can retire to a life of splendor while the rest of us try to prevent the good ship U.S.S.
from listing anymore to the left and possibly with debt flooded front and rear compartments going belly up. Obama and his merry men (Pelosi included) are like commanders of a U-boat that shot its load of torpedoes at us and one hit below the water line. Friends, I’m not abandoning ship. If I have to, I’ll go down with it. It’s fight to the last man time.
If somebody on the inside can grab that wheel from Obama, please do it. If we have to march on Washington to get this ship righted, by all means, let’s do it. We still have the power to make Sherman’s march to the sea look like a, well, you guessed it, Tea Party.
People who I consider to be domestic miscreants are trying to drive us into the sea as if we were the 29th division fingernail-clinging to Omaha Beach. If we’re gonna die, let’s do it inland. I’m not sure exactly what the tactics should be. I just may gather every copy of Saul Alinsky’s book and dump them into Boston Harbor. I do know that it’s not time to shut up. It’s time to step up. I’d rather live by Nathan Hale’s final words than die a feeble coward. When people are trying to take away our freedoms and transform our nation from sea to shining sea, it’s synchronize our watches time. Like American heroes said on Flight 93.”It’s time to rock n’ roll.”
36. John Galt:
You got it right. And for all the naysayers, remember what the far left said after the election of 2004. “It’s our party, we bought it and we now own it”. Soros’ money was what got that done.
“Why does President Obama insist upon driving public option health care legislation through Congress when voter opposition to it is at an all-time high?”
Because it’s the right thing to do and will benefit the country as a whole. Some loud voters don’t understand the benefits. Obama seems wavering about the health care legislation, but he knows what he’s doing and how to do it. The Republicans missed their chance at the Summit. Now live with it, in shame.
Vivo, those “some loud voters” are at least 60% of the electorate. Obama doesn’t have a clue how to do anything; he doesn’t know how to lead.
Vivo, it’s not that we don’t understand the benefits; it’s that we understand the cost, and it’s far too high for us to bear. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
I think ALL these politicians R and D really didn’t listen very carefully to the voice of the people in the last presidential election. They are trully in their own world.
Hillary got the boot and lost the dem. nom. because people didn’t want BAU. Many though Obiw would change things down there. we knew hillary would not.
Obie won the election against McLame because people didn’t want BAU. McLame wasn’t going to do anything different. We all knew this. Hope and Change worked because folks wanted real hope and change. Not the kind of change he is trying to facilitate. Politicians have really mis-read the voice of the people. I hope they get on the stick before the shouting becomes something more tangible and frightening. Most of these folks down in DC (both parties) don’t have a clue how pissed us ordinaries are. If things are not turned around in another election cycle the USS Pissed Off might take no prisioners.
#50 vivo:
“Obama seems wavering about the health care legislation, but he knows what he’s doing and how to do it. ”
Uh-huh…y’know, the modern day way o express your devotion to Fuhrerprinzip is to throw your head back and howl:
“Obama Akbar!”
(This may or may not be followed by an explosion and rapid, messy self-disassembly…which come to think of it, is pretty much exactly what the moonbat Left is doing, isn;t it?)
51. myth buster:
“but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.”
You have the liberty to buy your own private insurance and pick your expensive death. If health care is a choice between cheap death and expensive death, i pick the ‘expensive’ option (‘expensive’ is a Conservative concept).
#46 Bilgeman: Bingo. Of the GOP men, yes Romney has unbeatable hair, and from what I’ve read, he’s also a super health nut, which may be what gives him the beautiful locks that make even Uncle Jesse (Katsopolis – John Stamos- Full House) proud.
Romney/Palin hair together on one ticket: unstoppable.
I think Bill Clinton wants it to pass, because he failed to do it. And he wont have to suffer the consequences of ramming down America’s throat this time.
55. Chuck:
“Romney/Palin hair together on one ticket: unstoppable.”
Then, nobody could beat a Howard Stern/Carrot Top ticket.
If anyone can find our foreign policy please return it to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at Foggy Bottom, Washington D.C.
The love affair with the Clintons is puzzling. He a renowned personal / political seducer,sine qua non for sociopath and con-artist, and a Kennedy clone. She a modern day medusa.Do you really believe the conflict between them and the Obama machine. The Clintons were and are real powers in the DNC, and have used FEINT in the past in their pursuit of unaccountable power in the US government, beginning with Watergate and finishing with the mock impeachment of Clinton. Impeachment played, with the collusion of the Congress of the US, as french farce based on a sexual peccadillo and NOT the issue of perjury. An entertaining comedy and distraction from serious work of the government which proceeded behind the scenes. The “Democratic” Party and the “revolutionaries of the 1960s” the stage – managers, prop suppliers, directors and producers, all aimed at an election win in 2000. BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE denied them that SYMBOLIC DATE to CROWN the NEW AGE. THAT SYMBOLIC DATE LOST TO THEM THROUGH HISTORICAL TIME: their revenge against the American People who denied that symbol must therefore be swift and harsh. OBAMA, PELOSI, REID, AND THEIR ACOLYTES AND SYCOPHANTS AS USEFUL IDIOTS,
THEIR INSTRUMENTS FOR THAT REVENGE. After which will come the Clintons on the white horse…