As IF Times

link Pelosi: Dems have ‘very good chance’ of retaking House – On Politics: Covering the US Congress, Governors, and the 2010 Election – USATODAY.com.

It seems there is an endless supply of Kool Aid.  The best way to characterize Ms. Pelosi is that she is the alter ego of Harold Camping, he of course from the ‘end of the world’ campaign.  While Camping  exhorts people to repent and be saved when the end finally comes, Ms. Pelosi essentially exhorts people to just carry on being idiots and then their gang will regain the House. 

Undeterred by the havoc that her reign in office caused to the American people, she blithely insists that the tidal wave of economic and social destruction swamping the nation is actually clearing the decks for a resumption of her party to a majority in government.  Ms. Pelosi seems to think that people will buy into the economic theory embraced by the liberal Democrats that if you spend enough money, all the bills will be paid off.  She shares the same delusional view as an eighty year old stripper about her job prospects.  Sure there’s optimism, but there’s also an annoying  thing called reality.   As stated before many times here, anyone is free to say what they want in a free society.  What is puzzling is the audience that these crazies capture.  It’s Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football played out in real life.  It dawns on me that a very large segment of society will  keep lunging for the football knowing full well they’re going to miss.   How is this any different from Harold Camping’s followers who, in the absence of any kind of evidence, buy into his version of reality?

Aha, so that’s the secret.  Tap into your particular constituency and market it in a big way.  No matter how far from the earth’s orbit your ideas may be, there will always be an audience that will embrace you as an omniscient savant.   If not for the fact that the kind of demagoguery that Pelosi practices is dangerous, it would be extremely farcical.  There’s great irony in a party which preaches togetherness and kumbaya, but then identifies and categorizes groups in society that are ‘more equal’ than others.  Theirs is the world of have versus have not, race versus race and us versus them.   As a pundit on a talk show recently commented, Pelosi and her ilk are fostering a society where “earning money doesn’t entitle you to it, but wanting it does”. Combine this with a media that is unable to determine where the line separating right from wrong or what constitutes truth versus lies and you have as a result, the cultural zeitgeist that we are in today. 

That Pelosi can still be considered a legitimate spokesman for the incumbents despite the calamitous last 3 years is truly a credit to her…I guess.  It’s as if she was shopping for wallpaper after the house has burned down.  But we should note that Harold Camping still has an audience too.

link RealClearPolitics – Video – MSNBCs Martin Bashir: Palin Bus Tour In “Breach Of Federal Law”.

It’s amusing to the point of farce.   So if you are minding your own business, driving around in a bus painted with the American flag visiting places of historical interest, you are in danger of breaking federal law.   Hmm.  Sarah Palin is not exactly your run of the mill individual of course.  But to our knowledge, she has not advertised her trip, her stops, nor participating formally in any political event.  It’s just that the ‘news media’ are chasing her around like pimply faced paparazzi hoping or expecting something to happen.  CBS even stated that the caravan of media hounds trailing the bus is ‘dangerous’.  Dangerous maybe to the idiots following her around counting the times she invokes, ‘shucks’ or ‘golly gee’.  Maybe they’ll catch the bus speeding.   Ooh..Ahh….

At the same time, a Democratic congressman from New York is apparently in danger of violating some kind of federal law, by virtue of having an image of his crotch in tighty whities sent to the twitter account of a Seattle student.  The ironically named congressman Weiner, is giving every evasive answer except the direct one to the question of ‘was it your hot dog?’  His inability to be frank about this is suspicious.  In so much as a crime of some kind was actually perpetrated here, by hackers or by lying about it, wouldn’t it make more sense to have a caravan of news hounds chasing the Weiner around?  Shouldn’t Weiner be the one being grilled?

On the one hand, a private citizen is just minding their own business, having a sightseeing road trip and the media are frothing.  On the other, an elected government lawmaker flashes his sheathed Oscar Mayer over the Internet and he gets a page 6 mention in the New York times.   As long as Palin doesn’t have Death to America painted on her bus, why should the media by covering her like she was Brad and Angelina on their 23rd adoption?  The derangement syndrome which has gripped the liberal media has not abated at all in over 3 years.  They pursue her like Ahab stalking the big white whale.   In the case of the brewing scandal surely to be dubbed ‘Weinergate’, shouldn’t someone be looking into the judgement of an individual who is amused by puerile displays of exhibitionism…..ok, allegedly.  I guess the media think this is a ‘small’ crime…. Hey, he’s a New Yorker; they’re prone to all kinds of wacko behaviour over there.  But enough titillation, back to the real criminal, Sarah Palin.