(Couple this with North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue's remarks yesterday in Cary, NC that the United States should suspend Democratic elections until America's economic problems are solved and you should start to be alarmed at what some Democrats have in mind. The New York Times has an accompanying article on the declining worth of elections in the modern world as well, so the Democrat's Media full court press has also swung into action on this.
Paraphrasing Eric at redstate.com's answer to Bev Perdue, the United States did not suspend Democratic elections for WWI, WWII, or the Great Depression, so why would the presence of a mere nine per cent unemployment rate warrant suspension of America's Constitutional rights and obligations now?
Bev Perdue and other Democrats are starting to feel the cold wind of an impending electoral catastrophe on their shoulders and the backs of their necks and are hoping against hope for some miracle to stave off this onrushing debacle. The Democrats have had too much fun apportioning out Ronald Reagan's "Shining City On The Hill" and the contents of the United States Treasury amongst and between themselves and their friends and, like obstinate, belligerant children, do not want to relinquish that fun. Jimmy Hoffa's Labor Day speech was a pledge to Barack Obama that labor stands ready to help Mr Obama maintain control of the levers of Government should the people of the United States decide to terminate Mr Obama's lease, November 6, 2012. The Great Unwashed mob, currently camped out on Wall Street that Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon, on her way to vacation in Italy, recently paid homage to, is another group that is offering assistance to Mr Obama should he choose to become a 'squatter' at the WhiteHouse in the event his lease be cancelled and the threat of eviction be raised.
Then there are the folks like Stephen Lerner, Andy Stern, and Van Jones, who, unfortunately, probably more resemble Joe Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao tse Tung, who once they got their hands on the reins of power let every one else around them know they would have to pry those reins out of their cold dead hands. We should be preparing to accomodate them now.)
""You woke the bears! Why did you do that?"
That's from one of my favorite scenes in "Anchorman." In the Oscar-robbed film, Ron Burgundy (played by Will Ferrell) loudly leaps into a bear pit to rescue his girlfriend and then falsely blames her for waking them up.
Watching President Obama these days reminds me of that scene.
In March 2010, liberal columnist Peter Beinart argued that, for decades, Democratic politicians treated America's innate conservatism like a slumbering bear: If you make no sudden moves and talk quietly, you can get a lot done. But if you wake the bear, as Democrats did in the late 1960s and early '70s, the ursine silent majority will punish you.
But Obama promised to change that. He was tired of the timid, almost apologetic talk. He was going to be an FDR, or at least a Reagan for liberalism. He was going to "fundamentally transform" the country. And to those who counseled that Democrats can't govern that way, Obama and his followers responded with shouts of "Yes, we can!"
You might think it was those shouts that woke the bear, but that's not what happened. After all, Obama enjoyed stunning popularity when he entered the Oval Office.
No, it wasn't words but deeds that roused the beast. The poorly crafted, deeply partisan stimulus was like a sharp stick to the bear's belly. But it was "Obamacare" that ended the hibernation.
Despite his deployment of every rhetorical weapon in the progressive arsenal, Obama could never make the thing popular. At town hall meetings, the bear growled and snorted, in a posture that the experienced psephological woodsman understands means "leave the bear alone." The Democratic response was to mock the grizzly. Nancy Pelosi even called the town hall protesters "un-American.""
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