Thursday, January 28, 2010

On Nauseating Display Last Evening - The Audacity of Dopes

Last evening the Messiah Most Miserable delivered his first State of the Union address.  It was probably a tad more revealing than the more astute among the "culture of death" devotees would have wished.  One can read the text of the thing from the White House website

By the way - did anyone take notice of how Pelosi kept jumping out of her seat to applaud, like a jack-in-the-box?  Perhaps "pop goes the weasel" has quite a bit of meaning here!  Poor Biden!  Of course he had to drag his bones out of his chair to follow suit, as the cameras were turned on them.

For starters, I'd like to examine this snippet of the thing.  "So, no, I will not give up on trying to change the tone of our politics. I know it's an election year. And after last week, it's clear that campaign fever has come even earlier than usual. But we still need to govern.  To Democrats, I would remind you that we still have the largest majority in decades, and the people expect us to solve problems, not run for the hills. (Applause.) And if the Republican leadership is going to insist that 60 votes in the Senate are required to do any business at all in this town -- a supermajority -- then the responsibility to govern is now yours as well. (Applause.) Just saying no to everything may be good short-term politics, but it's not leadership. We were sent here to serve our citizens, not our ambitions. (Applause.) So let's show the American people that we can do it together. (Applause.)"

Let's examine the "tone of our politics", particularly in terms of the Hell Bill.  It's no secret that the Republicans have been locked out of any meaningful participation in terms of the construct of this thing.   Just today we read in the Washington Times how the House Republicans are practically pulling teeth to have the White House release records of meetings with health industry groups as they helped Democrats plop together this stinker of a bill.  It sounds like the "tone change" had better start in the White House.

He then chides the congressional Democrats for what he calls "running for the hills."  Actually, what the Messiah calls "running for the hills" is what they should have been doing all along - listen to the people who elected them.  What the President erroneously calls "solving problems" is actually disregarding the people and arrogating massive amounts of authority away from the people to Washington.  The recent elections sounded an alarm, one that the President arrogantly ignores as he demands that the Democrats fall on their swords to fulfill his lust for power.

Then he tells the Republicans that now that they've broken the supermajority (again, though, the people did that), they now "have the responsibility to govern".  What am I missing here?  Am I to believe that up until Scott Brown won Kennedy's old seat, that, in Obama's fondest dreams, the Republicans were to have no such responsibility or voice in Washington?  Did we just witness an inadvertent admission of the President of his not-so-secret desire for a puppet Congress?  Where, oh where, was all this "bipartisanship" that the Messiah promised us during his campaign?

It's getting late, and I must touch on other things.  More will be said on this most telling of talks.  I'll end by appending a youtube of an open letter that Rush Limbaugh sent to the Messiah in response to last night's debacle.

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