Smallness of our politics
Saying that they have, “exhausted the use of Rush as an attention-getter,” Obama et. al. are hoping that an all out smear campaign against Republicans as willful obstructionists who are ‘playing politics’ will bring about the bi-partisan consensus and ‘coming togetherness’ that has so far eluded Obama’s grasp.
“[W]hat’s troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics–the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and the trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working consensus to tackle any big problem.” ~Barack Hussein Obama, The Audacity of Hope, 2006, pg 41.
Hope and change is so ephemeral these days.
Despite the fact that Obama does not need a single Republican vote to pass any of his massive spending programs and social engineering schemes, instead of getting to work, he and all the rest of elected Democrats and partisans want to focus on attacking any and all criticism of his plans. This is more like the one party governments we know and love from history than the one Obama promised, but then he is The One, who are we to question his plans?
Beginning Sunday, the White House will harness every part of the Democratic Party’s machinery to defend President Obama’s budget and portray Republicans as reflexively political, according to party strategists.
A participant in the planning meetings described the push as a successor to Democrats’ message that Rush Limbaugh is the Republican Party leader. “We have exhausted the use of Rush as an attention-getter,” the official said. ~news.yahoo.com
Demonizing Rush didn’t seem to work so well for them so it’s interesting that they are so agitated into going negative on all Republicans now. Maybe wholesale negativity will work better? But the bigger question is why, if Republicans are so irrelevant, is, “every part of the Democratic Party’s machinery,” going to go to war with a minority party with no power in any part of all three branches of government?
I do have a theory. The political ideology of Liberalism, as it has come to be held by so many on the left, views any dissenting ideas as an affront to their very reality. Far too many liberals express the view that the very questioning of Obama’s plans is disturbing. Some go so far as to say conservatives are mentally deranged:
“The reason a person is a conservative republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that’s science – that’s neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican. It’s counter-intuitive. And they revel in their anti-intellectualism. They revel in their cruelty. ~liveleak.com
Others hope that conservatives can just be completely silenced on the basis that conservatism is hate. A charge unsubstantiated with anything more than partisan libel. But there you have it. If conservatism were hate-speech then censoring it would be ok. What a relief that would be to the majority party.