My good friend Agent Pierce offers some commentary on the staged events in Raleigh. Yes, he's way over the top here, and out of line, but that's why he's charming.
As far as I can tell, "Moral Monday" is Rocky Horror Picture Show for Progressives. They dress up, they recite lines, they shriek at all their favorite parts of the show.
I can see why people are disappointed with the Republican General Ass., and I can see why people who had hoped that Gov. Pat would actually behave like a centrist are pissed. But the problem is that we are all stuck in this "elections have consequences" thing. President Obama didn't start it, but he raised it to whole new level.
Thomas Jefferson said it best: “Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.” When our current President announced that "Elections have consequences" and "I won!", that ushered in a whole new era of no-tagback politics, in keeping with what Congressional Dems had been saying. When you are IT, you are IT, and that's IT. Just do what you want, because you won't be the majority for long. This op-ed from the WaPo has proved prophetic: BHO just completely misunderstood what politics is like. Our own President Obamorsi is not in danger of a military replacement, but given his total lack of experience in ever doing...well, anything, other than giving speeches, it is not surprising that he has not been able to create majorities to do anything. Prez. Morsi tried to please the Muslim Brotherhood with that kind of "elections have consequences, and we won!" stuff. It makes no sense.
Are the Republicans to blame also? Of course. It takes two parties to ruin a republic. And our two parties are ruining us with real gusto.
As far as I can tell, "Moral Monday" is Rocky Horror Picture Show for Progressives. They dress up, they recite lines, they shriek at all their favorite parts of the show.
I can see why people are disappointed with the Republican General Ass., and I can see why people who had hoped that Gov. Pat would actually behave like a centrist are pissed. But the problem is that we are all stuck in this "elections have consequences" thing. President Obama didn't start it, but he raised it to whole new level.
Thomas Jefferson said it best: “Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.” When our current President announced that "Elections have consequences" and "I won!", that ushered in a whole new era of no-tagback politics, in keeping with what Congressional Dems had been saying. When you are IT, you are IT, and that's IT. Just do what you want, because you won't be the majority for long. This op-ed from the WaPo has proved prophetic: BHO just completely misunderstood what politics is like. Our own President Obamorsi is not in danger of a military replacement, but given his total lack of experience in ever doing...well, anything, other than giving speeches, it is not surprising that he has not been able to create majorities to do anything. Prez. Morsi tried to please the Muslim Brotherhood with that kind of "elections have consequences, and we won!" stuff. It makes no sense.
Are the Republicans to blame also? Of course. It takes two parties to ruin a republic. And our two parties are ruining us with real gusto.
2 comments:
re: "our current President [...] ushered in a whole new era"
Your memory is remarkably short.
"'I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it,' Bush told reporters. 'It is my style.'
As he had done in his victory speech Wednesday, Bush spoke of building a bipartisan consensus and reaching out to the 48 percent of Americans who voted against him. Yet he made plain that he had no intention of moderating his agenda to reach that goal. "
But I think BHO took a gamble here. He really believed in his marxist mind that his policies would elevate most people from poverty or joblessness. He believed his policies would work contra what reality thought would happen. This is why you don't want a true believer as a president.
And I think if his policies, his gamble, would have worked, he would have been probably one of the best presidents ever for history to come.
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