I Think You Need A Time-Out, Little Mister!

Nuclear Unicorn

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Wed Feb-10-10 10:10 AM
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I Think You Need A Time-Out, Little Mister!

The so-called populist "Tea Party" movement began barely a month into Obama's presidency but the popular anger at government encroachments and economic policy failures began nearly a decade prior.

The anger is not at Obama's policies as a poll just released by WaPo shows 2/3 of the nation wants comprehensive HCR.

The wars drag on draining out treasure and more importantly the blood of our youths and hapless innocents.

The economy is far from recovering. Heroic efforts notwithstanding the president is applying band-aids to a system that is sick at its core. You can't solve the problem of the private banks because private banks ARE the problem.

Ditto healthcare.

Ditto energy production.

Ditto an education system being infiltrated by so-called "free-marketeers" who want to use subversive wedges like "merit pay" to force out teachers who dare teach that we're killing our planet, man was not created 6,000 years ago and there are better birth control methods than holding a dime between your knees.

The president's voice is being drowned-out by a media more interested in snow reports and 600 malcontents with more time and money than common sense who like to be led around by a yapping "palm"eranian.

In open "combat" the president proves he is the intellectual and policy superior to the do-nothing, got-nothing-to-say opponents...but still he sinks in the polls. The disconnect between reality and opinion being oceanic in scale.

Nevertheless, the discontent is boiling over. It is inexplicable that a seat held by a democrat for nearly half a century can be taken away by a wanna-be part-time Field Marshall, fatherly flesh-peddler who also parades around naked while claiming to represent the narrowly-defined-family values bloc. And the electoral bloodletting has no sign of abating.

In short, the people are still mad at the Bush regime but their anger is has no viable outlet so they take their frustrations on incumbents. It has become so perverse that the blue dogs are scared to vote for what 66% of the people claim to want.

An emotional frenzy is the wrong time to be making decisions that

Demagogues use such moments to rise to power, often to their eventual destruction but not until they drag everyone else around them to that same end.

If I were more conspiratorially monded I might believe the neocons created the disaster knowing it wouldn't reach its apex until the progressives had assumed power then allow the popular backlash as an excuse to discredit progressives so they could come riding back in "to our rescue" 2 years later. "Now don't be so foolish to listen to those silly progressives ever again...ever--never--ever!" they cackle wagging a fatherly finger at us as we fearfully clutch their well-pressed pant leg.

I'm not conspiratorially minded...

...but it ain't easy!

With such emotions running at a fevered pitch maybe November is too soon to be holding elections. Perhaps we should give serious thought to delaying them until emotions settle.

Now before the flaming avalanche descends upon poor little ol' mild me allow me to point out: 1) this isn't a presidential election, it's not like anyone can claim we're trying to install Obama for life and 2) the neocons have no complaint because one of their heroes tried it and they never took him to task for it, i.e. Nixon.

Have at.