OK. So the House Republicans lost the shutdown war. So what, as they say in corporate-speak, are the "lessons learned?"
Lesson One: Obama had to have a win, and he got it. But we shall see whether it turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory or not. Because Obama won on the issue to keep his Obamacare lead balloon fully inflated even as its website was collapsing and Americans all over the country were waking up to a doubling of their health insurance premiums. Golly. Another victory or two like that and the president will destroy the Democratic Party.
Lesson Two: Republicans needed to show their base that they had some fight in them. Yes, it was a pathetic Keystone Kops routine, but at least they fought.
Lesson Three: Republicans needed to know which leaders were prepared to get up on the parapet and yell defiance at the Ruling Class. That was what Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) "meaningless" non-filibuster was all about.
Lesson Four: These Obama crises are really good for usgovernmentspending.com. Yesterday the site got just under 20,000 visitors. Back in early September is was more like 4,000 visitors per day. Yay Obama!
Remember back in the innocent days of 2000 when Al Gore ran for president and his website was full of stuff about "fighting for the people against the powerful?" Back then I thought this sort of faux populism rather funny, but I'm not laughing now. Right now I am feeling a deep hunger for a leader who will fight for the People of the Responsible Self against the ruling class of liberals, experts, special interests and crony capitalists and their supporters, the EBT folks that looted Walmart.
Why is this? It is because the liberals are finding themselves behind the 8-ball and they are cheating in order to stay in the game. Back in November 2008 after liberals won the election with the First Black President they never thought they'd be sitting where they are today, defending an unpopular law with parliamentary tricks and executive illegalities. Liberals think that, with their pro-science world view and their Keynesianism and their education and their policy-analyst expertise that they know how to operate the levers of political and economic power to fix society and fix the economy. They never thought that in 2013 they would be running the printing press flat out (making money for the 1%). They never thought that the economy would be struggling to make 2% GDP growth. They never thought they would have to observe a code of omerta on the embarrassing fact of high unemployment.
Because liberals own the mainstream media and the culture and the universities and all, they have a safety net and can attempt death-defying political high-wire acts that Republicans and conservatives just cannot attempt. But eventually gravity wins out. Eventually even the most partisan of liberals and the most oblivious of low-information voters begin to feel in their gut that something is wrong. That "eventually" is probably occurring right about now.
Think about it. For ten years liberal leaders have been teaching their followers that conservatives, from President Bush on down, are stupid. And when they are not stupid they are racists, sexists, homophobes. What was needed was for an intelligent government that knew what it was doing and that relied on science not on religion for its inspiration. Well who is stupid now? Who is stumbling and bumbling now? Who is failing to bring Americans together now? Who has produced the worst government program failure ever?
Of course the liberal partisans are never going to admit that their guy is a bust. But they will start to lose faith in the project. They will start to cast around looking for better leaders. They will start drifting away from the reassuring NPR news. The lo-fos will start picking up on anti-Obama cracks from the TV comics.
And then there is 2016. African Americans will be staring in the face the truth that we conservatives already knew. Put not thy faith in princes, even First Black Princes. African American voters will be wondering what their enthusiastic support for President Obama has delivered for them. They will not be excited about an old white woman like Hillary Clinton, even if she will be America's first woman president! Yeah. They will stay home.
But in 2016 the conservative base and the independent conservatives that sat out 2008 and 2012 will be loaded for bear. All they will need is a presidential candidate that can ignite their smoldering rage. If they want a nice guy they can have Marco Rubio. If they want a tough guy they can have Ted Cruz. Both men come from big states, so that's all right.
Yeah. It's tough to take a loss, especially against a guy like Barack Obama. But Obamacare will still be there messing up peoples' healthcare next week, and next year.
And Obamacare is an issue that goes straight to the hearts of women: their healthcare. Here's a fearless prediction. Look to the gender gap snapping shut in 2014 and 2016.
Lesson One: Obama had to have a win, and he got it. But we shall see whether it turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory or not. Because Obama won on the issue to keep his Obamacare lead balloon fully inflated even as its website was collapsing and Americans all over the country were waking up to a doubling of their health insurance premiums. Golly. Another victory or two like that and the president will destroy the Democratic Party.
Lesson Two: Republicans needed to show their base that they had some fight in them. Yes, it was a pathetic Keystone Kops routine, but at least they fought.
Lesson Three: Republicans needed to know which leaders were prepared to get up on the parapet and yell defiance at the Ruling Class. That was what Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) "meaningless" non-filibuster was all about.
Lesson Four: These Obama crises are really good for usgovernmentspending.com. Yesterday the site got just under 20,000 visitors. Back in early September is was more like 4,000 visitors per day. Yay Obama!
Remember back in the innocent days of 2000 when Al Gore ran for president and his website was full of stuff about "fighting for the people against the powerful?" Back then I thought this sort of faux populism rather funny, but I'm not laughing now. Right now I am feeling a deep hunger for a leader who will fight for the People of the Responsible Self against the ruling class of liberals, experts, special interests and crony capitalists and their supporters, the EBT folks that looted Walmart.
Why is this? It is because the liberals are finding themselves behind the 8-ball and they are cheating in order to stay in the game. Back in November 2008 after liberals won the election with the First Black President they never thought they'd be sitting where they are today, defending an unpopular law with parliamentary tricks and executive illegalities. Liberals think that, with their pro-science world view and their Keynesianism and their education and their policy-analyst expertise that they know how to operate the levers of political and economic power to fix society and fix the economy. They never thought that in 2013 they would be running the printing press flat out (making money for the 1%). They never thought that the economy would be struggling to make 2% GDP growth. They never thought they would have to observe a code of omerta on the embarrassing fact of high unemployment.
Because liberals own the mainstream media and the culture and the universities and all, they have a safety net and can attempt death-defying political high-wire acts that Republicans and conservatives just cannot attempt. But eventually gravity wins out. Eventually even the most partisan of liberals and the most oblivious of low-information voters begin to feel in their gut that something is wrong. That "eventually" is probably occurring right about now.
Think about it. For ten years liberal leaders have been teaching their followers that conservatives, from President Bush on down, are stupid. And when they are not stupid they are racists, sexists, homophobes. What was needed was for an intelligent government that knew what it was doing and that relied on science not on religion for its inspiration. Well who is stupid now? Who is stumbling and bumbling now? Who is failing to bring Americans together now? Who has produced the worst government program failure ever?
Of course the liberal partisans are never going to admit that their guy is a bust. But they will start to lose faith in the project. They will start to cast around looking for better leaders. They will start drifting away from the reassuring NPR news. The lo-fos will start picking up on anti-Obama cracks from the TV comics.
And then there is 2016. African Americans will be staring in the face the truth that we conservatives already knew. Put not thy faith in princes, even First Black Princes. African American voters will be wondering what their enthusiastic support for President Obama has delivered for them. They will not be excited about an old white woman like Hillary Clinton, even if she will be America's first woman president! Yeah. They will stay home.
But in 2016 the conservative base and the independent conservatives that sat out 2008 and 2012 will be loaded for bear. All they will need is a presidential candidate that can ignite their smoldering rage. If they want a nice guy they can have Marco Rubio. If they want a tough guy they can have Ted Cruz. Both men come from big states, so that's all right.
Yeah. It's tough to take a loss, especially against a guy like Barack Obama. But Obamacare will still be there messing up peoples' healthcare next week, and next year.
And Obamacare is an issue that goes straight to the hearts of women: their healthcare. Here's a fearless prediction. Look to the gender gap snapping shut in 2014 and 2016.
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