The entrenched DC powers are a bipartisan collection of moneyed backscratchers and button-holers who do a lot of winking and nodding. They also know how to circle the wagons. Note how Fannie, Freddie and the rest of the gang escaped unscathed from the ruins they created. All that "Republican versus Democrat" stuff is just for the rubes watching CNN and Fox. Both parties are branches of the same powerful DC tribe, and they all subscribe to a modified version of that old Arab saying:
I against my party; I and my party against the opposition party; I and my party and the opposition party against the reformers and the people.Ordinary citizens get madder and more emotional over politics than the politicians themselves do. We observers take personally what the politicians themselves do not. They get over it and keep climbing. They routinely cooperate with their rivals to gain some later advantage. The Washington Power Elite are more deal makers than ideologues.
I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I often wonder if overheated partisan rhetoric is designed to keep us proles occupied with arguments over personalities and trivial surface issues to divert our attention from the real dirty work Republicans and Democrats routinely cooperate in.
Who wants to talk about the constitution? Let's shout at each other over abortion and gay marriage!
Stuff like this is stupid. Impeach Obama? He's not even in office yet! An impeachment arises from high crimes and misdemeanors while in office, bozos!
This is also stupid. President Bush is not Hitler, despite pronouncements by policy experts Michael Moore and Sean Penn.
My advice? Be more like Lee Troxler. He started a fairly well-reasoned anti-Obama site that is now in hiatus as he decides what to do next. His last post was to congratulate Mr. Obama on his victory and to wish him well.
Think about the Anti-Bush wackadoos and their purple rage, foam at the mouth rants. Did they sway your opinion? How effective was Cindy Sheehan bleating on about how George Bush is guilty of murdering her son? Did those calling President Bush chimpie, Bu$hCo, and other flattering names make you more or less likely to support him?
Emotional, over-the-top diaper rash rants may be fun to watch, and even engage in occasionally, but they're not very effective in swaying partisan opinions. Relax. It's only politics.
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"Bush lied, people died" didn't alter the opinion of politically savvy people. But only 18% of Americans are politically savvy. The other 82% took this in some form or another as a statement of fact.
So....Obama lied, people died. And his his ears look funny.
:) Excellent point. I think 82% is high, but I get what you're saying.
President Obama will be wrapped in a protective press coterie who will scream racism at every criticism, so criticism must be confined to policies. Attack the actions, not the man. And we know, with Pelosi and Reid in cahoots, there will be plenty to criticize.
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