Posted by
VBushmills on Friday, January 09, 2009 1:32:03 PM
About Dem reaction to Obama's economic policy statement (Jan 08), we wuz right. We stated two months ago that in all likelihood Obama and the Reid-Pelosi Axis in Congress will not be on the same page for very long. Marxists and bank robbers rarely are.
It's just a fissure now, like the glaze on an old porcelain teapot that has been washed in hot water too many times. Watch it. Over time the fissure will become a crack.
Conventional wisdom states that however it is settled (we think Obama wins, no matter how space-captain'y his economic plan may seem), it will be settled behind closed doors. No spilt blood in public.
But that may not be the case. After all, it's GOP conservatives and moderates Obama must try to assuage (read: diversion) with his economic prestidigitation. He knows that much of Dem anxiety about his economic stimulus plan is that it does not provide adequate cover for their own misconduct (read: criminality) in bringing about this economic turnaround. He can afford to be indifferent to those concerns, especially since they don't take him and his agenda where he wants it to go. Unlike congressional Dem's, Obama no longer has to blame George W Bush. He can turn on a few of them, if he wants.
Conservatives would love to see at least five, maybe more, congressional Democrats indicted and go to jail over the banking meltdown. Throw in Franklin Raines for good measure. We all have sugar-plum dreams of Barney Frank playing Drop-the-Soap at Lewisburg medium security prison. Obama knows he can send many more to the rack, but all he has to do is select the right number that will send the right message to those left behind, then sic Justice on them.
If Obama even causes one indictment he will become the darling of the GOP Right and the center, and that will divert attention from his true agenda. It will be five years, and into a second term, before the GOP finally looks up under its skirt to find out he'd stolen the Liberty Bell....leaving only the bell ropes.
A point we harp on and will continue to harp on; conservatives and Marxists share many precepts, such as nose-to-the-grindstone education, and one-strike-and-you're-out law and order. Different education, different laws, and different reasons, to be sure, but we believe the GOP can be relied upon to see this point last.
Bernard Chumm