Archive for March 18th, 2010
Contrarian Take: Can you make an argument that what Democrats are doing now will actually HELP them in November?
We have a friend who is a falling-down drunk. Not an alcoholic, because he’s too anti-social to go to meetings. The guy is an ass whenever he’s had more than two drinks, which is most of the time, even very early in the mornings. When he’s sober, though, Wayne is nice enough…and other friends of ours insist we keep giving him a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eleventyeth chance. Because, apparently, he’s a Northwestern MBA, a day trader, or something, and is very smart in some areas, but incredibly sloppy, pigheaded, and self-destructive in others.
Wayne was living with the most amazing girl last year named Liesel, who was just GORGEOUS. Honestly, the kind of girl we wish we had straight brothers to set her up with, because not only was she pretty, but she was smart, classy, kind, and so much fun.
Needless to say, Liesel kicked Wayne to the curb. There are only so many times a woman can come home to find her boyfriend laying on the floor covered in his own vomit, having soiled himself, with half-empty bottles laying all over the place — just because he could. Wayne has a lot of money. The liquor store is more than happy to take that money. No one, apparently, can stop Wayne’s drinking, because Wayne believes he is master of his own domain where consequences will never catch up with him.
Liesel took it for as long as she could, then moved back to Philadelphia, where we’re sure she’s found a new, non-drunk to spend her time with. She deserves it, and won’t be coming back to Wayne no matter how much Wayne begs.
More and more, we see the Democrat party as Wayne…with voters being Liesel.
Voters got in bed with the DNC in 2008, with Obama being their rebound guy, after a bad relationship with George W. Bush.
But, increasingly, voters are seeing what happens when Democrats get drunk with power and think consequences won’t come for them. Flush with cash, controlling nearly all three branches of government, Democrats are Wayne the Drunk, soiling themselves, leaving bottles everywhere, making a giant mess, not believing the Liesels at the ballot box will ever abandon them.
The Media is like Wayne’s friends…who enable his alcoholism, who make excuses for him, and who repeatedly tried to keep Liesel from leaving him. That’s just what the MSM is doing for Obama and Leftists.
But, will it work?
We don’t think this is something Biden was sent out there to say; he came up with this on his own. It has “Biden” written all over it. It’s what he really believes.
He really and truly believes Democrats will be better off in November for doing as many crazy, drunken, stupid, dangerous things as possible. It’s like Wayne believing the more he drinks, the more he pisses himself, the more BMs he deposits into his Brooks Brothers pants, the better his life is. An apartment full of empty bottles. A stench to high Heaven. Red splotches on his face, glassy eyes, cotton mouth, no idea where time has gone. Hope! Change! Better off!
We just can’t find a way to ever convincingly argue that people like Wayne are ever better off for doing MORE of the things that destroy them. We can’t picture a scenario where Wayne doing all the things that drove Liesel away wins Liesel back by doing MORE of those things, with more gusto, on an even bigger scale.
Just like we can’t see a contrarian view where Democrats actually WIN seats, convince Independents and moderates to return to their side, and do better in November’s elections by maintaining their destructive Leftist bent.
Can you?
Putting aside all your personal bias, can you sit down and logically think of an argument that supports Joe Biden’s contention that Democrats will do better in November the more crazy things they force on the public against voters’ will?
It’s a lot like asking how a raven’s like a writing desk, in that we don’t have an answer to this riddle of our own, but assuming Biden’s not had some sort of stroke and still maintains mental faculties sufficient enough to have some sort of logic behind his statements, exactly WHY does the Vice President believe November’s elections will be any better for Democrats than Thursday night’s binge drinking will be for Wayne?
What think you?
Question: Why do Leftists think they can cram so much through Congress using "Slaughter Slams"?
Here’s a question that’s stumped us today: why do Leftists think they can cram so many things through Congress using illegal and unconstitutional “Slaughter Slams”?
We’re referring to the spate of reports out today that show Democrats are planning on pushing Cap & Tax, Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, and other measures through Congress without voting on them in the House…using Louise Slaughter’s invention, “The Slaughter Slam”, to Demon Pass them without ever taking a vote. Democrats are doing this so that they don’t have to be on record voting for the madness their constituents have told them not to vote for.
It’s a dictatorship, that’s what this administration has become. When the House and Senate stop following the Constitution, Americans should rise up and take back our government from these Leftists. If they really do use the “Slaughter Slam” on Healthcare, that’s what we think is going to happen.
HOW that happens is still a puzzle. What CAN regular Americans do if the Leftists in control stop following the Constitution and effectively install Obama and his DNC enablers as a dictatorship? What recourse do citizens have when their government abandons 233 years of history and precedent and starts using Demon Pass and “Slaughter Slams” to rip the country apart?
SOMETHING will happen. The slumbering American revolutionary spirit will reawaken. It will be an awesome and terrible thing. We believe Democrats have no appreciation for the mighty powers with which they are trifling.
Realistically, though, we just don’t know how Leftists can truly believe they are going to ram through Cap & Tax, Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, and all of the other insane things they dream of forcing upon the country. The November elections are now just eight months away. Democrats are going to be trounced. If there’s any luck, every last one of them will be booted from Congress.
Even the most delusional of these people have to understand this.
There is just not enough time for them to do all the damage they want to do.
They will try their hardest, of course, because this is the last time they will ever get so close to achieving the vile things they want to achieve.
Democrats don’t realize this, but they’ve alienated far more people in the middle than they’ve energized on the Left with this madness.
Will Americans ever trust Democrats will power again, when they see what they do with it when they get it?
What do you think?
Why do Leftists think they can cram so much madness through with “Slaughter Slams”, without being completely removed from power for doing so?
What are we missing?
Sarah Palin's Alaska travelogue show heading to A&E or Discovery Channel
Variety’s reporting on Sarah Palin’s Alaska travelogue show with Mark Burnett — it looks like it will air on either A&E or the Discovery Channel.
The Discovery Channel has always felt like the best fit for this show, since the network already successfully produces shows like “Deadliest Catch” and the Ice Truckers series in Alaska. They also have an excellent reputation for quality, which is what we expect from any Sarah Palin project.
Personally, we’re thrilled this travelogue looks set to go to series. It’s been a dream of ours of someday going to Alaska and visiting all the places Palin talks about in her book, Going Rogue. Logistically and financially, that doesn’t seem possible in the near future, but we could do it vicariously through a TV show produced and hopefully narrated by Palin. Just imagine being able to experience Alaska with Sarah Palin herself as your guide, hopefully with plenty of appearances by Todd, Willow, Bristol, Piper, Track, and little Trig too.
We. Can’t. Wait.
Thursday Open Thread: March 18th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Thursday?
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