Late to the thread. Can only agree on one key point. The media will support Obama as long as they exist regardless of any facts. The Federal government will bail them out financially so that they can continue to provide cover.
But there is an assumption in Ms. Rubin’s article that I have to say is perhaps not justified. Or more exactly two assumptions. First, that somehow the Republican party has returned to its roots. If they had, they would be standing up and fighting instead of pretending that they are not even up there. They would have a National Chairman who would be supporting the Tea Party movement instead of being the invisible man when he is not apologising to the Left for the existence of conservatives. And if they had returned to the roots, the RNSC would not have announced immediately that they would be supporting Arlen Specter [a Democrat in RINO clothing] and John McCain [just a RINO] against conservative primary challengers. So far, they have ignored any chances to show that they have a hint of a clue as to what we are about to go through as a nation, and their role as an opposition party.
That said, there is a more critical second assumption that may not be a “given” in this equation. First, let me accept most of the list of groups that the Democrats are infuriating, and why. Further, with the help of the media, they are not even pretending to cover their own butts in the process. They do not seem to care what people think, and further they are doing it in the face of a collapsing economy that never portends good electoral news for the party in power. It is as if they do not care how many voters they alienate.
OK, those of both parties who manage to get and hold seats in our Houses of Lords do not get there by lacking political cunning. Professional politicians are expert at waffling enough so as to try to limit the damage for what they do.
The Democrats, and their supporters in the media and Obama Troll Corps, are acting like they have had a political lobotomy. It is as if they have absolutely no fear at all of any electoral consequences in 2010 or 2012, regardless of what they do.
I’m a retired Peace Officer. I am used to dealing with felons and criminals [and I agree with Twain's formulation of the only native American criminal class being Congress] and it is basic to look for inconsistencies in a story, actions, or an alibi. Why do they act outside their normal patterns? What would trigger such a change? What do they know that is not otherwise in evidence?
If they are acting as if they do not care about the 2010/2012 elections, it has to have a reason. There may be others, but I have three conjectures [and would welcome others being added to the discussion].
1) They actually believe that by November 2010; everybody will be making an above the median income, the unicorns will be defecating skittles all over the country, a perpetual motion machine will solve all of our energy problems, and all of our enemies will love us. Such blind faith in the face of the reality is totally out of character for the cynical political class.
2) They believe that the American people will be so beaten down that they will accept continuing along the path the Democrats set, that even the Republicans will not be able to put up any opposition. This also goes upstream of reality. There is already a growing movement to get rid of the lot of them in Washington regardless of party, and even if the Tea Party Movement does not become a 3rd party, a lot of people learned the lesson about sitting the election out. In bad times, the party out of power makes gains. The first rule of politicians is self preservation. For Democrats to make such an assumption is also out of pattern.
3) They literally do not have anything to fear from the voters because either they do not expect the elections to take place, or they believe that the results have been pre-ordained. Given the fact that we will be in serious domestic trouble in 2010, not to mention several wars on the verge of breaking out overseas; one could see this group, devoted more to power than the Constitution, planning on a State of Emergency being declared. OR they could believe that they have perfected their control of the voting process. Remember, in the last several elections they have become masters of accumulating false/illegal registrations [it is interesting that some cities [Milwaukee and Detroit come to mind, but there are others] have more registered voters than there are men, women, children, and household pets according to the last census. ACORN got just shy of $4 Billion in the “Stimulus” Bill. We have seen a Democrat state Attorney General insert 150,000 known false voter registrations into the voter rolls [Missouri, 2008] instead of flagging them as requiring provisional ballots as Federal law requires. And we have seen that in every close election, Democrat poll workers have the ability to find ballot boxes and bags of absentee ballots in their homes and cars weeks after the election. Somehow, they always give the Democrat the margin of victory.
This last pair of alternatives would justify the overweening confidence the Democrats are displaying, and combined with the inflated egos of politicians, would explain much of their behavior. They may actually do believe that they are immune to consequences.
The Democrats seem to be willing to make statutes, contracts, and the Constitution elastic things. One wonders how far the social contract will stretch before it breaks.
Subotai Bahadur
