Obama and the Runaway Train
The race, the case, a hope for grace.
By PEGGY NOONAN
Noonan pleading to misdemeanors for 40 years of abuse
Obama's gonna win...Blah, Blah, Blah.... Can't we just be nice and get along?...
moreshitmeltinginhermouth... I will just lie back and think of Reagan...
So what's the frequency Peggy?
"There is for instance, in the words of Minnesota's Gov. Tim Pawlenty, "the runaway train." The size and dimension of the likely Democratic victory seem clear. A Democratic House with a bigger, more fervent Democratic majority; a Democratic Senate with the same, and possibly with a filibuster-breaking 60 seats; a new and popular Democratic president, elected by a few points or more; a Democratic base whose anger and hunger have built for eight years; Democratic activists and operatives hungry for business and action. What will this mix produce? A runaway train with no one to put on the brakes, to claim a mandate for slowing, no one to cry "Crossing ahead"? Democrats in Congress will move for innovation when much of the country hopes only for stability. Who will tell Congress of that rest of the nation? Mr. Obama will be overwhelmed trying to placate the innovators.
America enjoyed divided government most successfully recently from 1994 to 2000, with Bill Clinton in the White House and Newt Gingrich in effect running Congress. It wasn't so bad. In fact, it yielded a great deal, including sweeping reform of the welfare system, and balanced budgets."
See, I didn't say it. Tim Pawlenty did. I'm not saying I agree with him at all. I'm just presenting his 3 word descriptive and propping it up as a perfectly rational fear. See, I've defined the situation, condensed the clusterfuck down to a digestible bite and swallowed like a good Repugnicant should.
Can't a sister get some love?
Peggy don't get it. Never has; never will. Her blinders will not allow her to dwell upon responsibility, accountability, culpability -which in her lexicon spells out retribution rather than ownership- of the transgressions for which she cheered wildly.
Rachel Maddow asked President-elect Obama why he hasn't used his campaign to repudiate the Conservative operatives of opportunism that led America down the primrose path back in 1980 1968. When Nixon laid the foundation to loot and pillage the "Great Society", blew the corporate benefactors then re-wrote the elections handbook. So that when St. Ronnie went back on every single one of his declared principles save one; To be teh biggest, bestest, bravest bullshitter on teh block. EVAH. People simply shrugged and were thankful that the Nixon era had faded.
That point in time when we walled off our long-term interests, opened the outlet store, merged and were acquired by the elite and wannabe elites. Sold off chunks of America's investments because the silly workers didn't get it in writing (or trusted their leaders to keep the trust). Pimped disinvestment, downsizing, deregulation while discounting workers, work and their relative worth.
Why would we want need to revisit such unpleasant pages? After all, the table setters and many of the gluttons have since passed on. We have our Knight in Shining Armor. We'll have the majority. We'll have the pleasure of mucking out the stable, clearing the empties out of the shrubbery, tidying up... So much busy work that contemplating an audit, reconciling the accounts, setting up a billing and collections process, is just foolish dreaming.
Obama's reply? First I have to win. [twinkle in his eye?]
Then maybe I can build the case and prosecute it to the full extent of the law? Stay tuned.
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