Keeping Up with the Dems is Hard To Do

When most folks talk about the Obama administration and Cloward & Piven's strategy of collapsing the system by overwhelming it, I'm pretty sure they were concerned with big things like government welfare, food stamps and unemployment benefits.

Not a little-read blog.

But that's what happened to your truly last week.

After seeing Obama heckled at an appearance in Pennsylvania last Sunday, I started writing - in the back of my mind, as I often do. The subject of the piece would be about how poorly Obama responded to the heckler and how much difficulty he's having in TelePrompter free zones. For goodness sake, the President of the United States had to have a full TelePrompter rig set up for a talk with 6TH GRADERS.

His handling of the Pennsylvania heckler was far from the polished Obama we were sold during the campaign for office. You can judge for yourself here.

I thought the prez really failed to take control of that situation, and the fact that he stepped away from the podium for some snapshots just didn't feel right.

I hadn't got much further than that in my writing gestation process when polls started appearing all over Massachusetts that showed Scott Brown had a very real chance of winning his special election. Hmm. Maybe something was bubbling in Boston...

Then MSNBC's Ed Schultz said he'd cheat to keep Brown from winning and Obama's stumble at the podium began to blossom into a bigger multi-tiered story about political machines versus the will of the people.

Then they counted the votes and the health care bill looked doomed. But wait! Harry Reid said he'd seat Brown 'when all the proper paperwork was received" and it started looking like the Dems were prepared to cram a bill through no matter how dirty the politics was going to have to get.

I started prepping something about how out of touch the elitists in Congress are. For example,
Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson (he of the infamous Cornhusker Compromise) is STILL so out of touch with the speed with which the health care bill is crumbling around him that he placed BRAND NEW ADS explaining his vote in yesterday's NFL playoff games. Ben, sidebar... IT'S OVER!

We're just to Tuesday... I haven't even mentioned the nationalization of student loans, the bank tax, Keith Olbermann's anti-Brown meltdown, Air America calling it quits, raising the debt ceiling by $1,900,000,000,000.00, the Supreme Court's death blow to McCain/Feingold, retiring politicians or Senator Arlen Specter's "Act like a lady" command to Rep. Bachmann of Minnesota.

It's more than one fellow can digest and opine on short of posting five missives a day. And as overwhelming as it's been, it has also been one of the best weeks ever.

It's the first week of the 2010 political season and the water is going to be getting mighty hot for a lot of politicians in the coming months.

I just hope I can keep up.

Where is Bush's Bullhorn?

Something's wrong in the White House.

From the get-go, Bush focused on bringing a 'new tone' to DC. What has it got him, other than opponents who sense weakness?

Early on in his administration, Bush reached across the aisle to let Ted Kennedy write the education bill. I suppose this was in hopes that when things got tough later on, he'd be able to rely on new found relationships. Fat chance.

The Dems don't quite share W's vision. They have taken every opportunity to use Bush's attempts at bipartisanship to further their agenda. They have played partisan politics with his offers of bipartisanship.

Now that the Dems have won Congress, the swagger that made the cowboy president so attractive is gone - and the end result may be a presidency that reflects his father's in more ways than it should. Conservative America wants a leader who is willing to fight for what they believe in - and right now, we're not getting it.

Mr. President, it's time to remind America that Saddam was deposed because of violations of a cease fire agreement, that the original mission WAS accomplished, that WMDs WERE found.

It's time to pick up that bullhorn once again. It's time to climb to the top of the rubble that was once your presidency and let the world know that your opponents are going to hear from you soon.

Jelly Beenz

Welcome to Jelly Beenz.

This is where I'll be posting my more political rants. This blog will allow It's Over to continue to be an entertainment based rant - while giving me an outlet to vent on more political issues.

The need for this blog arose from this posting.

So why Jelly Beenz? Because Jelly Beans was taken, as was Jelly Beanz.

But why the fascination with jelly beans? Because they were Ronald Reagan's favorite treat. He always kept a jar of them on his desk.

My hope is that Jelly Beenz will be tasteful and good enough as to have come from the desk of Ronaldus Magnus himself.