Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Every Now and Then You Ought to Check the Batteries in Your Smoke Alarms

Pelosi, Reid, Axelrod, et al seem to be sleeping through all the warning bells, beeps and whistles represented by Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. The house is on fire, the smoke is billowing through the halls, and these people continue to snooze away, convinced that the repudiation of Obama’s over-reach is a mere bump in the road to serfdom.

There is a growing number of Democrats, however, who are having second thoughts about playing Russian roulette with a six-shot revolver loaded with five bullets. Rep. Anthony Weiner believes that passage of a health care bill (in either the Senate or House version) is now about as likely as porcine aeronautics. Even [sound of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing the Hallelujah Chorus] The One is making cautious noises: “President Obama warned Democrats in Congress today not to ‘jam’ a health care reform bill through now that they've lost their commanding majority in the Senate” (oh, so it’s all Congress’s fault, now, is it?)

And from the Department of Inexplicably Confusing Harry Reid with Jimmy Stewart’s Character in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, we have the increasingly insufferable Garrison Keillor providing evidence that the resemblance of his physiognomy to pond life is no accident:
Reid is the gentlest and most patient soul in the U.S. Senate and his presence there in a colony of bull walruses is a tribute to Nevada. He's a soft-spoken man from hardscrabble roots in the mining town of Searchlight who possesses Western honesty and openness and a degree of modesty startling for a senator, and if he goes down to defeat to some big bass drum, the Republic will be the poorer for it.
(Proudly stolen from Moonbattery)

Update: Captain Heinrichs has the perfect solution for those pesky Democrat fund-raising calls.

7 comments:

mojo said...

There is none so blind...

Oh, and who's this Al guy?

Robert of Ottawa said...

Hehehe.

That's three strikes for the Obamawunda.

Dash to Copenhagen to get the Olympics for Chicago.

Redash back again to Copenhagen to get the Chinese to sign up to a suicidal uneconomic pact.

Dash to Boston to support the Democrat candidte for a safe Democrat Senate seat.

I think BarryO is the last one I would call on if I were in a tight spot - especially if I were in Copenhagen.

Robert of Ottawa said...

There's a French term (I know, but with Sarkozy in France, and I am Canadian)

sauve qui peut general

which basically means "everyone for themselves". This we may see spread like a delightful contagen through the Dems in this election year :-)

BTW When is it NOT election year in the states. We here in Canada are currently having one every 12 months roughly. I think the next one is coming up in March

JeffS said...

It's amazing how fast many of these politicians run away from their principles for cover when things go south.

Makes ya wonder that maybe they don't have any principles, hmmmmm?

bruce said...

I saw Scott Brown on BBC and he looks and sounds great. At last a ray of hope. Yeah the Dems will turn on each other when pushed back, jackals. Live by passive aggressive jockeying and then be hoist on it (mixed metaphor to avoid violent words, sorry).

Congrats American Republican friends, it seems the stinking tide has really started to turn. There is hope after all (I have been rather depressed by all this leftism, myself).

(I'm writing this next to a wild west dusty Indian street with open drains, after weeks near Cochin harbour so 'stinking tide' is on my mind).

Paco said...

Bruce: I hope you're keeping a diary of your travels. Maybe do a guest post one day?

RebeccaH said...

It's great that Brown won Massachusetts (who'da thunk it?), but I don't think we should get too complacent. There's still a whole Congress full of tax-cheats, thieves, liars, and power-hungry ideologues we need to cleanse.

As for Brown's campaign promises, I'm following the old Reagan maxim: Trust but verify.