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With each passing day it becomes more apparent that the Democrats can be divided into two piles: (1) The venal and political cowards whowere elected, and (2) the dumb or -- to put it more kindly -- the duped folks who voted for them. There has been an occasional exception, such as Paul Wellstone, who paid the price for his integrity and courage -- and he would have it no other way. Such folk are precious, yes, and obvious exceptions, but reinforce the notion that there is no excuse for political cowardice, whatever the cost. But what profoundly confounds me is why do we the people put up with this ilk.
When America goes down, it will be not so much because of the insatiably treacherous, but because of the many more who knew and lacked the intestinal fortitude to stand up for the Right Thing.
My small voice, insistent as it may be, is but a mouse fart in a hurricane. We desperately need someone of authentic messiah-like stature to wake up America's dumb ox of an electorate. I will never forget the gaping mouths and wide eyes of the adoring young women transfixed by candidate Obama's "Hope" and "Change." I I wonder how I detected a difference -- but I did, I did, but simply lacked the capability to do anything about it. And even now as I witness, for instance, the medical-care debate, in which single-payer was off the table before the debate had even begun, to be transparently shuffled out by the Democrats'charades of "public-option" and then the "trigger," I am again reminded of the hopelessness of any honest and politically courageous endeavor to ever be expected from this sad lot of Democrat majorities andtheir executive branch.
Someone once said, "Politics is the art of the possible." That person did not say, consistent with the current situation: "Politics is the treachery of themoney-grubbers and their cowardly associates." But that is precisely what we have today.
Someone else has said, "God smiled when He made America." Perhaps, but it is now obvious even to this agnostic that He smiles no more.
