heads republicans win, tails
democrats lose
Imagine breaking into someone’s house, and the
owner is there at the ready. As soon as you’re
inside, you get a squirt of the hottest pepper spray on the market, and it slams your eyes
shut so quick that you don’t even notice the owner as
he puts a half a million volts stun baton to your neck that makes your knees buckle.
You want to get away, but you can’t move. You try to move, but
you’re more or less reduced to a quivering mass of uncoordinated
arms and legs, moving every which way but the right way.
You want to try and wipe the burn from your eyes, but the stun
baton has ruined your hand/eye coordination.
Anyone who was watching you would
think you’re just checking yourself for blindness, the way you’ve
seen others wave their hands in front of a blind man.
Your hands move right past your eyes, without being able to
locate them. This is not the best day of your life.
It won’t be that bad for the democrats if they pass this
health care bill, and it won’t be that bad for them if they
don’t pass this health care bill. But either way, it’s going
to be pretty darn close.
Right now the democrats are in the almost-never-seen-
before-position of having nowhere to look for safety,
nowhere to look for solace, no matter what they do. And
frankly, I’ve got a big Rhett Butler for them —I don’t
give a damn. They saddled this horse, and I’m just going
to sit back and watch them try to ride it.
I’ve been following politics since 1976. I was 20 then, and
it was the first time I had ever had a chance to vote for
president. I’ve never missed a vote, and don’t think I
ever will. But I have NEVER, EVER seen a political party
or a single politician manage to make everyone —
supporters and opponents alike — line up against
them.
If health care gets passed, more than half the country will
be furious with the democrats, and come November the
dems are most likely sure to lose control of at least one of
the Houses.
If health care doesn’t get passed, the democrat base will
be furious with the leadership, the base will stay home
for the November elections, and the result will be that the
dems are most likely sure to lose control of at least one
of the Houses.
Heads, republicans win, tails, democrats lose.
What’s most amazing to me is that just 4 years ago, I was
marveling at how Nancy Pelosi managed to orchestrate
such a huge democrat victory to retake control of the
House of Reps. I don’t like the woman, not one little bit, but
she did make mincemeat of the republicans.
And she had been hacking away at them for 2 solid years,
convincing a half-asleep electorate that the dems and
the messiah would kiss their booboo’s and make it
all better. I really don’t like that woman, not one
little bit, but I was thinking that she was
certainly a political genius.
This begs the question, was this not the most right I’ve ever
been, or was the messiah an even worse choice than we
could have imagined?
I’m willing to take one for the team on this issue, but I
don’t think I could get away with it. It looks like it’s all
over but the shouting. Barack Hussein Obama, hmmm,
hmmm, hmmm, is a worse president than even Jimmy
Carter was, and that presents the messiah with a rather
troubling problem for himself.
At least Jimmy could swing a hammer and use that skill
to manipulate Habitat for Humanity to partially rebuild
his doofus-like personality. But what’s Barry gonna do?
12 to 5 says he’ll try to set up a new traveling basketball
team, maybe call themselves The Chicago 7 — Barry
and 6 others play an all-star, but only 5 at a time wheelchair
team, 7 on 5, and still lose at the buzzer.
We be lovin’ Barry again in no time at all.