printCan you get worked up about the latest fight between the Democratic and Republican bloodhounds and their hangers-on?
“Honing a campaign message,” the WSJ reports, “President Barack Obama and Democratic Party officials have in recent days strongly suggested the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other groups, including two run by Republican strategist Karl Rove, are illegally using money from foreign nationals or companies to fund U.S. political advertising. The groups have repeatedly denied the charges.”
And if not for this small matter, the elections—this “advance auction sale of stolen goods,” in H. L. Mencken’s words—would be just dandy.
The democrats have nothing to run on. All they can do is make up trash close to election time and hope it sticks. With an obedient media and a voting bloc of non-thinkers they might pull it off in a few races.
Obama was flinging the “accusation” that Republicans would CUT the spending of the Department of Education (eeeek eeeek eeeek!!!) and hence the entire country would instantly become mentally retarded. Of course, the track record for the Republicans is that Bush and his Elephant-Congress DOUBLED spending at the Department of Education (did that turn everyone into Einstein??).
Meanwhile, Republicans, in turn, accuse Obama of cutting unconstitutional-LBJ-socialist Medicare to transfer money to unconstitutional-Obama-socialist Obamacare.
Plus ca change, c;est la meme chose! (The more things change, the more they remain the same)
About the best we can hope for is a little gridlock in Washington. Unfortunately, gridlock won’t pull our chestnuts out of the fire.
Economically speaking, we’ve reached that Wile E. Coyote moment of truth. Don’t look down folks, it’s a long drop.
Steve – good analogy