Posted by
VBushmills on Friday, September 25, 2009 9:13:14 AM
Richmond, September 25, 2009
We've all done the math. Even if every Republican had their John Madden "Lineman of the Year" face on...you know, snot bubbles and drool running out of the side of their mouths...even if every Republican said not only "No" but "Hell no"...even if every Republican said about Reid and Pelosi and Obama in front a mic what Joe Wilson blurted out offstage last week, there still wouldn't be enough votes to stop this health care bill in any form.
We deal in Agritprop here, where sneaking up and tweaking genuinely dishonest people and their cohorts is part of our trade. But how do you reach inside the heart and soul of a man, a good honest man, who has been trapped by his own vanity?
That can only be done close up, face to face, mano y mano.
If in fact, as some argue, the Democrat Party has become soulless, and there is no honor there any longer, then nothing I have to say here will matter. But I believe there are many Democrats, even old style Liberals, who have been trapped by their own vanities, the worst being having to admit you have sided with out-and-out criminals and mountebanks, and worse, facsist thugs.
Who, in a theatre where illuminated vanity is everything, can ever admit that? Who can say, by word or deed, or vote, that they were hornswoggled, lied to and cheated?
Better to ride it out, or go down with the ship, eh? Can you imagine some of the things the "secretly honest" liberals are saying to themselves every morning in the mirror? The little devil on the left shoulder will say, "Well, the country will be better off if I try to work from the inside, within the system"...while the little angel on the right will whisper "Yeah, whatever system it finally turns out to be. Be prepared to hang with them, so get a lawyer."
I can't say how many Democrats go through this daily soul-searching, except to say I'm fairly certain Arlen Specter isn't one of them. Or Jack Murtha.
All I can say, as Glenn Beck intones daily, pray for them. Pray that just a few, a redeemed few, a "happy few", will actually see and understand the nature of that hole they are drilling into the hull of what had once been the most seaworthy ship ever to float.
As for the Republicans, if this bill is passed, we don't need you anymore. Your only responsibility, and only path to redemption will be to place the mark of anathema on every single person who votes for this bill, in both chambers, and to forswear any and all personal and social contact with that person, from the simplest "Good Morning" or "Excuse Me", except as required by law and the rules of the Chamber.
Either that or get out...and get a lawyer.
VB