The massive disconnect in D.C.
Bookworm on Oct 08 2009 at 7:57 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
There is an almost total disconnect between the real issues facing the country — a growing nuclear threat from Iran, a floundering war effort in Afghanistan, a bulging debt, a falling dollar, and near double-digit unemployment — and the focus of the Congress and the president. The Obama administration either doesn’t know what to do about the growing list of critical issues or doesn’t have the interest in addressing them. So it has manufactured a “health-care crisis” that now absorbs nearly all of Washington’s political energy.
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I’ve been trying to think of a way out. I don’t see one. The only one I can think that would change the situation peaceably is for Obama to be determined as having been ineligible all along. If that happened (and I’m not sure what would bring it about) then anything he signed would be null and void. We’d get a do-over, so to speak, and if it happened after an election in which the Dems lost the majority, maybe – _maybe_ – we could get things back on track. The problem is that the GOP hasn’t been much better – the entire lawmaking/law enforcement process has been compromising for so long that the fundamental principles on which the nation was founded have been trashed.
If we can’t find a peaceable solution, I fear that we’re going to come to a boiling point in the fairly near future – I really don’t think the population as a whole is going to knuckle under to socialist tyranny. Maybe I’m wrong – I don’t know. But in the meantime, I keep thinking about just how it might play out…those who have the mind to resist don’t want to throw out the fundamentals – they want to reinstate them. How do you do that? Keep the basics, and throw out all the superstructure, I mean. Invalidate all laws made after the 10 basic amendments? Invalidate the Feds, and turn everything over to the States?
I definitely need a new crystal ball. Anybody got one?
I humbly beg to differ. What could have been more important than Chicago getting the 2016 Olympics?
The precipitating event will be the arrest of Rush Limbaugh for refusing to take a government-mandated swine flu shot.
I am blaming the disconnect to television, Dancing with the Stars, The Biggest Loser, wrestling (pick your federation), Survivor, The View, Oprah – did I miss one?
The Ins vs the Outs (In power, Out of power)
On the serious side…this has been in the making for 40 years (post Viet Nam). I knew then that the ‘ins’ would never allow the ‘outs’ to ever dictate policy again, one way or the other. Didn’t matter if you were right, wrong or neutral. The ‘ins’ were going to take direction only from other ‘ins’. Only when/if a very large majority of the population is negatively impacted at the same time will you really hear the whopping and hollering, this would have to happen within a generation – like now. Once the elders are gone and living memories are gone and these posts and thoughts are relegated to history (revisionist) it will be too late. There will be a generation all ready indoctrinated. My take is that the ‘ins’ will pursue at a slow and steady rate – an amendment here an amendment there (middle of the night and unread by any of us). I think there will be outposts of communities, who will retreat to rural areas and become self sufficient (more than there are now).
That’s my crystal ball take.