All that Noise

The opposition, The Gallant Old Party, is at one time shameful and funny. The attacks on the party in power are ludicrous, way over the top and getting more outrageous every day. Obama is a Muslim, Obama is a foreigner, the democrats want to euthanize Grandma and now the president intends on brainwashing the children. This all would be laughable if we didn't have an dim witted army of staunch believers.

Who writes this stuff? Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer and will say anything for an audience. The Republican National committee has always been good at personality sniping and with the Clinton's they had a big bushy target. Your run of the mill fundamentalist has as a job description 'to believe' whatever craziness hits the horizon and they don't get embarrassed about shouting mistruths. This all adds up to distraction, bad noise and fodder for honest comics.

After losing bad in '06 and '08 the Republicans set out to reinvent the party. Unfortunately, they were light on ideas and personalities. The best they could come up with was the mildly amusing comedic team of McCain and Palin. Lacking ideation and human resources the party reverted to what they knew best. Marching in lockstep like faithful hounds. The only message is 'NO' and the perpetual answer to everything are more tax cuts. Publicly, they cannot admit to being the party of big business and the caretaker of money interests. The abundance of anger in the public realm could easily once again turn on them so the best strategy for the party was to use this anger for its own sake, do a lot of finger pointing, crank up the rumor mill and sit back and do nothing. After all, the opposition's only requirement is to be opposed.

All Barry Obama has to do to cut through the noise is start handing out the candy. The public perception is that the bankers and auto makers got all the money. The people want their turn at the sugar tit. Nobody cares about infrastructure fixes down the road (until the next bridge collapses), alternative energy (unless you give them an electric car) or health care (unless you promise that you can live a long healthy life on burgers, pizza, soda pop and beer).

Here's a short list of things for Barry to put in the candy dish:
1. Another fat stimulus check.
2. Give the old folks their yearly COLA.
3. More tax credits for junk we need.
4. Cash for crap we don't need.
5. Fat jobs for lazy idiots.
6. A brand new car!

Also, quit sucking up to the bankers, tax the crap out of the rich and put Bernie Madoff in charge of raising monies to offset the deficit.

We are what we are; angry, self possessed and needy.