Harry Reid
Deeply knee-slapping remark by Harry Reid on the Senate floor (above) in response to the uneventful jobs report that showed "only" 36K jobs lost in February. Much talk of weather-related loss of work, and speaking to Sudeep Reddy, WSJ, on Friday 5 re how weather is a factor in the report -- also how the Census hiring affects the numbers for the remainder of this year. The larger puzzle is not the stumbling and likely defeated Reid of Nevada but the indifference as well as silence from the Obama administration with regard the fate of the Democratic party at midterms. The wave for the GOP is now 8.8 earthquake tsunami-size and still building.
The Obama Court
Above find a clip from Sergei Eisenstein's famous "Ivan the Terrible," a beautiful, scary, transforming presentation of the power of absolute kingship. Mention that this clip was sent to me as an illustration of court ceremony that resembles the frantic and peculiarly self-satisfied policies of the Obama administration. The fate of Rahm Emanuel is said to be determined -- called dead man walking. POTUS is influenced by Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett. There is no Washington hand in the court. Axelrod and Jarrett are slow, aimless, cut off and disdained by the elite. If there is a plan, it is to wait while the Democratic majority on the Hill is wrecked and doomed. How does this gain Obama the Terrible? The scenario is that the jobs will come back to 6% by 2012 and POTUS will run for re-election by campaigning against the clumsy GOP and with a vision for a better world. The court is patient. The people are goats. The Washington insiders are frustrated, slothful, vengeful. What was Ivan's fate?
apres moi le deluge?
a statistical recovery continues while prince harry finds his pleasures where he can.
the bankers no longer hide beneath their desks to evade the pink slips. they celebrate their genius in surviving into the days of a vertical yield curve and a borrower with a printing press.
they drink wine again and eat tiny courses on large plates and celebrate.
but the airports are empty.
meanwhile the peasants grumble and gold ads proliferate. they all know someone who is hollow-eyed. how long will hope endure?
People see their house values shrink, yet their mortgage payments go up. They see Fannie and Freddie Billions in dept.
They see their taxes rise, their local taxes rise, gas prices rise, electric bills go up and extra fees everywhere.
The Democrat party refuses to drill for oil, refuses to cut benefits to overpaid government employees, refuses to stop overspending. They are the party of no.
Republicans have an issue to be exploited, the Tea Party is a vehicle to drive those issues.
Who will take the keys and drive the car?
The lesson to be learned here (albeit too late, I fear) is that if you endeavor to wreck one party, you end up wrecking them both. If you wreck one presidency, you wreck each succeeding one as well. You wreck one country and all others will suffer. Only the wreckers remain unscathed for they are already wrecked – the inanimate tools of a dying hand.
Who would have dreamed that by wrecking Clinton’s (albeit self-inflicted) star-crossed terms in office and then wrecking Bush (in order to salvage Clinton’s wrecked legacy), the following election would bring about the cancer that leaves our nation hanging by a thread? Now all those who have been cheering on the sidelines (on either side), fighting ignobly for the America's scraps, rending her glorious garment and dividing it among the mindlessly greedy, suddenly find themselves drifting aimlessly along with all others on a swollen sea without sail or rudder. None of the swatches of past glory are sufficient to fashion into a sail to catch the breeze and limp back into port. And only the wreckers rejoice and celebrate the headlines.
It cannot be overstated that Communism relies first and foremost on the ‘revolution’ which seeks the wreckage of any and all the belief systems to which we – especially in the West – have become accustomed. Obama’s oft stated resolve to remake America can only be interpreted as an invitation to plunge our nation into the abyss. To imagine a re-building without taking the devastation that must precede it into account is utter folly. In the larger scheme of things, Obama is not the man who will be charged with re-building. He is neither interested nor capable of such. The self-proclaimed re-builders still stand in the shadows, their agendas still hidden and kept close to the vest. No one yet knows what they truly have in mind but the suspicion that it will not be good for us is mounting.
Unknown yet is if our fear is of the chaos or of the demon that will emerge from it. I suspect it’s the former. We’re at the point where we see the tsunami sucking the water away from the shore. The dogs and the simple-minded are heading for the hills, for they sense danger in their entrails; whereas the curious leave the shoreline and venture out to see where the water might have gone. They will be crushed in the uncompromising violence of its eventual return.
Upon Ivan's death, his ravaged kingdom was left to his unfit (retarded) and childless son Feodor. This then would initiate Russia’s ‘Time of Troubles’.
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