Entitlement Syndrome

Taking us Down, One by One

I took some time today to think again on the whole “Yes, we can” aspect of how our president ascended to his lofty office in what seems like such an effortless manner.  Never forgetting the fact that John McCain seemed to be fighting with one arm tied behind his back and wanted nothing to do with the idea of letting Sarah Palin free to go berserker on the Obama campaign, I can sense a constant and unwarranted aura of overconfidence emanating from the man currently occupying the Oval Office.

I’m wondering why he would, in fact, seem so confident of winning this battle over not only his socialist health care “reform” package but also why he’d think he could line up enough Senators in the Congress to vote affirmatively on his carbon cap-and-tax, uh…I mean, “trade” hustle.  Not hustle!  No!  It’s a plan, man!  Can’t you guys see that? 

Well, if there’s one thing I know, it’s that the only thing our elected leaders in Congress love more than their party, it’s the idea of being reelected time and time again, without end and with lots and lots of “that other white meat” (pork) on their plate. 

Okay, maybe not ALL of them.  There’s an oddball scattered here and there around the country, who actually gives a hoot about fiscal discipline and personal responsibility, so it’s our job to go out there and make sure those folks get our unwavering support.  The rest of them?  Well…hopefully, they’re finding out what the meaning of “righteous anger” really is and also what the title “FORMER Congressman so-and-so” will mean for them in the near future if they don’t begin to straighten up and fly “right.”  That last is called a “pun,” by the way.

What all of this is leading to during the hottest month of August I’m sure more than a few of our D.C. types have experienced in quite some time (if ever) is that I believe our president is once again misreading the “mandate” – which he seems to be mistaking for a coronation as an ancient Roman Caesar — he received last year. 

Yes, he was the first Democrat to actually win the popular vote since Jimmy Carter (and my, doesn’t he seem to be doing his best to imitate that fellow?) but one needs only to take a minute to look at how it was he and the Democrats managed to pull off the biggest swindle since Kenny Lay and his Enron boys almost took down the economy all by their lonesome.

Life Imitating Art Yet Again

If any single group can claim responsibility for putting Barack and fashion diva wife Michelle (along with her mother…can you imagine the conversations around the upstairs dinner table most nights?) into the 24/7 news cycle day in and day out without cease it’s the one we call the “independent” voter.  What happened to those folks last year?  A little too much “hope and change,” liberally sprinkled with a desire to pull the Republican Party’s pants down and give it a real whupping?

It’s my fervent hope that at least the Republicans have now gotten the message and will act like thrifty and responsible citizens from here on out, because there’s a real opportunity to basically crush the march toward socialist groupthink Mr. Obama seems to be so comfortable in encouraging.  That fellow still seems to be cocooned in an illusory aura of invincibility, which is telling him to go, go, go for “it,” whatever new socialist scheme it is that’s caught his fancy at the moment.  Apparently, it’s “universal health” which — no matter how hard he tries to deny — is really the ultimate aim of “ObamaCare.”

Polls out this week show that only the cloud-cuckoo types like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid still seem to be marching in vanguard with the President.  So-called “Blue (Lap) Dog” Democrats — fresh off the flea baths they’ve been getting at the hands of their constituents during the recess — are eyeballing those same polls and looking at each other nervously, hoping against hope that the folks back home won’t remember their twin “yes” votes on carbon cap-and-tax and health care “reform.”  Sorry dawgs…that ain’t gonna happen. 

My mother used to say to me — when warning me about hanging out with what she called “the wrong kind” of people:  “Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.”  They might want to keep that in mind when contemplating pairing up with the Obama administration — or Nancy Pelosi and the Progressive (Liberal) Caucus — to ram through a health care “reform” program practically nobody now wants and which promises to put us trillions more dollars in debt.  Anybody remember the story of the 700-dollar toilet seat?

It looks like those “independent” voters have also gotten the message, fortunately.  Or the fleas they picked up last November 4th have finally gotten to be too much for them to take anymore, because they also seem to be running from the President like people being swarmed by those killer bees we always hear about on the cable news networks.  Usually after they’ve given more than a few foolish people the stings of a lifetime.  Again, hopefully, there’ll be more than a few “stings” given out in November of 2010.

Closer than You Think

And what of the new, grand coalition — this so-called “network” of 13 million people — Barack Obama supposedly carefully crafted last year?  Well, it also seems that many of them have decided to sit this one out.  Perhaps it’s because they already have health insurance they like and are a little bit chilled at the thought of having to learn the art of what the British call “queueing.” 

Britons are great ones for getting in line and waiting and waiting and waiting – which is what queueing basically is – mostly for health care services and Michael Jackson concert tickets from what I hear.  Sorry about those Jackson concerts, mates.  Not my fault.  I hear the doc in trouble over the whole thing is a big Obama supporter, too, so you lot might want to send him a nasty note about the whole thing.

So, if there’s any part of a coalition — besides more than a few electorally-suicidal Democrats in Congress — Mr. Obama can count on it’s most likely the SEIU/ACORN contingent, though even their efforts at present seem a little half-hearted.  There’s hardly been any vicious beatings delivered to date, but that could change once the AFL-CIO unleashes its bully boy “enforcers” upon the unsuspecting public.  John Sweeny, the union’s chief, has promised millions of dollars and more than a little “muscle” in the effort to go against what appears to be the will of the public on this one.

Whether any of that “effort” — which is more properly called “intimidation” — will work or not remains to be seen.  What’s certain is that the American public is solidly behind the anti-ObamaCare folks at present, and Mr. Obama and David “AstroTurf” Axelrod, his chief strategist (the Soviets used to call those guys zampolit, though they were a bit more sinister than Axelrod is — until his back’s against the wall, probably) are desperately scrambling to gain what media folks call “traction.”

What we non-media folks call it is a retreat.  Hasty, fumbling and sometimes mean-spirited (anti-ObamaCare protesters are Nazis, Nancy?  Really?), it’s a sometimes amusing-sometimes tragic thing to watch.  I’m just kidding about the “tragic” part.  I’m loving every minute of this much-deserved comeuppance.  Hopefully, there’s a lot more to come, if Republicans in the Congress can hang together and a few Democrats manage to break free of the socialist programming  they underwent during our (un)glorious period of “Hope and Change.” 

Hey…crazier things have happened.  Even John “Pork Chop” Murtha — lately a slanderer of valiant U. S. Marines – is making noises about maybe, just maybe, pushing a vote for this disaster of a bill back to 2010.  Hah.  Even a vulgarian like Murtha understands that pushing it to 2010 really means it won’t happen that year,  if ever.  NO politician wants to go into an election with an albatross like a “yes” vote for H.R. 3200 (”ObamaCare”) hanging around their neck.  Pelosi, Reid, Henry Waxman and 50 or 60 “progressive” types?  Sure.  But the rest?  Why, I’ll be chief anchorman at CNN before that occurs.

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