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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.

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When we were kids, all of us were warned by our parents that if we persisted in making  silly contorted facial expressions that it would stay that way permanently.  Well whaddya know?  Some real life evidence of this!   This may put a scare into some kids that if they keep on doing a certain something to themselves, they will in fact go blind.  The person who proves that will really be embarrassed.

But there must be something to this theory.  Kids should also be warned against saying stupid things as well, or else there’s a good chance they’ll wind up carrying that habit into adulthood.  We can offer up endless streams of stupidness  from many of the people who are quoted in the public space.  Politicians to be sure, as we can cite thousands of examples of obtuse hyperbole that is offered to the public as logical rhetoric.   There is no way they can actually believe what they say.  It must be because they can’t help it.   In fact, our images of many of these people are when they are captured in mid rant.  We’d be hard pressed to recognize them in a photograph with their mouths closed.

Most recently, the heated battle for budget cuts and fiscal responsibility in the U.S. have produced such treasures as,  “they are here to kill women”, oddly enough from a Democrat named Slaughter.   Chris Matthews of MSNBC employ and another who has his mouth regularly in the wind tunnel position,  has expressed that budget cuts will kill half his audience.   Ex-speaker Pelosi expressed that “elections shouldn’t matter as much as they do”.  In San Diego, budget cuts apparently will hurt students’ education according to teachers who are vastly overpaid.  That chestnut has been around for a while, but it’s worth trotting out as a standard complaint.   Apparently, budget cuts will close libraries which will contribute to illiteracy.  That’s debatable.  I can more willingly believe that closing libraries will affect the ability of the homeless to find a place to sleep.

Old people, students, immigrants, minorities, artists, gays, women, religious sects and workers seem to fight a never ending battle against their existence regardless of who is in office.   Logically, it’s best to avoid being part of that group of people if you can help it.  Of course recently, being a bug, a fish or a tree is not so benign either as that group is also apparently under attack.

Much of the wrangling that’s going on now is the usual posturing by both sides, but the arguments from the Republicans at least make some logical sense.   The retort to the GOP budget proposals by the Democrats on the other hand are full of the ‘open mouthed’ inanities that are taken directly from the progressive manual of rhetoric.    The president described the Republican plan for reducing the nation’s debt as one that would ” let roads crumble, accept mediocrity in education, stop caring for seniors and lead to as many as 50 million fewer people covered by health insurance” .  He derided the Republican approach as one that would not invest in “education or clean energy” while giving away tax breaks to wealthy people.  This is the same stuff we’ve been hearing for decades.

At an early age, kids should be warned against making contorted faces or expressing stupid things.  It can only lead to a career in politics.