Posted by
beltway girl on Monday, August 04, 2008 1:00:28 AM
So, as Barack tells us all to inflate our tires and end the energy crisis, the Pelosi Gang has tilted the floor of Congress to the left and rolled right out the door.
That's what nuts do.
While the Pelosi Gang, also known as the Happy Tree Friends, sleep it off in some magical place filled with well-fed black bears, painstakingly restored coastal marshes, and strange looking birds that you just can't find anywhere else, the American people can keep getting back in line for gas and blame themselves-- and their sadly sagging tires-- for their $4+-a-gallon plight.
If only we'd been better stewards of our planet, none of this would be happening. Had the average American just not been a beer-drinking, chain-smoking, overweight trans-fat loving, pollution-prone slob, well, then, the Earth would be treating you better. As it is, though, Congress has locked the doors, knowing that--as low and base as you are-- you won't be storming their Bastille. And Speaker Pelosi, fairy godmother of the neo-pantheists, will return to fight another day.
Actually respectable columnists have been predicting that the nation might really be headed into a severe recession, or perhaps even another depression. Some economists name oil as the prime factor, while others see it more as a result. But whatever the cause, one has to scratch one's head and ask, was it a good idea, with all of this going on, for Congress to lock the doors and kill the lights on America.
Much of the problem is with the Happy Tree Friends. The Democratic Party's composition is an odd thing. We have working-class and poor people in incredibly high numbers; but we also have much of the middle class, and we have what might be referred to as the "special interests" of the party, these being activists, celebrities, and environmentalists.
Having found a welcoming home with the Happy Tree Friends, these groups drive the regular folk of the party like mules, shoving their radical social agenda on them like slaves, knowing the the Democratic Party image as the Party of the Poor (versus the Evil One, George Bush, and his group of WASP goodfellas) is out there, and that it's written in stone. And knowing that the image alone is enough to keep these people voting Democrat for the rest of their lives.
The result?
Exotic animal and plant species become more important than human lives. If it had just been a fetus, that would've been one thing. But these are black bears we're talking about here.
Nancy Pelosi talks about stewardship. But what kind of stewardship was heading up the cast the day the levees broke? Nancy herself must be more than familiar with the idea that environmentalists don't like levees.
What brand of steward high-tailed it home to a jetski while the country is at war and is also facing an incapacitating economic crisis?
It must not have been nuts-and-bolts day that day. It must have been personal. This bunch thinks the election is theirs to be won, and they're passionate about their cause. What many of their voters had better learn is that they are not the cause instilling all the passion.
This may, indeed, turn out to be "the moment."
It could be the moment that voters drain the gas tanks of their Congress and deflate the tires of the Obama campaign.