The Unforgiven

Suddenly, in headline after headline and each with the flair of original discovery - "Hey, wait a minute, this thing wasn’t even about health care. What gives?"

Oh, that.

We can surely understand why the Investor’s Business Daily declared, "We've done more than 150 editorials in the past year or so documenting these problems. Democrats surely understand them. Yet, despite a recent CNN poll showing that 59% of Americans oppose ObamaCare, Congress approved it anyway. Why? Because it's not really about health care. It's the largest wealth grab in American history, masquerading as health care ‘reform,’ another step in the socialization of Americans' income in the name of ‘fairness’ and ‘spreading the wealth around,’ as Obama himself has put it."

Must have read our blog.

Many patriots are disheartened. Don't be. This whole shebang is a fluke. Time was compressed. The near-meltdown of Q4 '08 (triggered by the Dem’s refusal to reform the twins) coupled with political correctness got us an extremist for a president. The odds are tiny that we will ever see such a combination again.

Still, many reasonable observers think it’s all over for America.

Some herald the post-war UK as our destiny. As Mark Steyn notes, "the greatest empire the world had ever known would have shriveled to an economically moribund strike-bound socialist slough of despond, one in which (stop me if this sounds familiar) the government ran the hospitals, the automobile industry, and much of the housing."

True. I know. I was there when Mark was in diapers. Being a student traveler with no $ I befriended a family of four and was taken in. The Mr. worked for a coal-driven electrical generating plant. Being on strike, he and I and his wife and two daughters took the car ferry to Ireland and toured for a week (stopping precisely at 1 pm every day, pulled off the road with our gas burner, for tea). I hadn’t grown up; I still harbored the silly and glandular notions of a college kid - the same notions that our lefty friends in Marin took into adulthood. I listened to a week’s worth of complaints. It was always someone else’s fault. They had rejected Churchill, adopting the nanny state, and now things weren’t working out just as planned.

But guess what? Lo and behold, the UK righted itself. Dear Margeret had a lot to do with it. So did the people. They’d had enough.

Our correction will be more accelerated and for the single reason that in-house extremists have shown their colors in an instant. Not sneaky and not gradual, but in our face.

Big mistake.

It’s all been fast forwarded. Nothing about BO’s agenda can be called "creeping." The time of a lifetime for these misfits called for gestapo tactics. That won't work in America.

Normally, folks might opt for a ball game (while experiencing the death of 1000 cuts) but this time it scares the pants off most of them, that is, those who retain their sensory capacity. They’re not going to accept this sin.

Recall Eastwood’s The Unforgiven. Cross the line, and you’re about to become history.

Robert Craven