What we will witness next Tues is the measure of rage - the fire of a thousand suns -of those who have been taken, those who voted for Obama. Being disappointed is one thing; being made out to be a fool is quite another.
It is true the BO prevaricated just a tad in the primary; almost everything he said was in conflict with his past. The fawning types believed it anyway. Big problem. BO was a run-of-the-mill Chicago politician. Every body knew that, or should have. When he ran for the Ill senate in 1996 he sued to remove opponents from the ballot. In his campaign for the US Senate in 2004, the divorce records of both his primary and general election opponents were mysteriously leaked, Chicago style.
But then we all knew that. And we all knew that in the Senate his voting record was the most partisan of any senator, either side, that there wasn’t a spending bill he didn’t embrace nor an entitlement, nor a union payoff that he didn’t endorse. And we all knew that he blocked every effort to reform the twins - ground zero.
Still, folks pulled the trigger. One was Maureen “Moe” Tucker, former drummer for the Velvet Underground. Peggy Noonan highlighted her experience the other day in the WSJ. "Anyone who thinks I'm crazy about Sarah Palin, Bush, etc., has made quite the presumption. I have voted Democrat all my life, until I started listening to what Obama was promising and started wondering how the hell will this utopian dream be paid for?”
So there you have it. Moe just figured out she’s been had. It was fine to argue lefty politics when in the abstract; once these policies gained traction, became reality, Moe and the rest are hunting for the covers.
The rest of us - simply amused.
Robert Craven
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