Posted by
Patrick Henry on Tuesday, December 08, 2009 11:53:10 AM
Om yesterday's segment we looked at who Democrats don't represent: seniors, small businesses and the defenseless
unborn. But who do they represent? Who pays their bills, fills their campaign coffers and benefits from their big
government tax-and-spend largesse? The answers are hardly surprising.
Democrats represent the big labor unions above all else. The unions gave huge, unprecedented donations to the
Democraric parrty in the run-up to the 2009 election, and Obama has publicly admitted that when the unions call he
"calls right back." He admits it's because "I owe those people." Andy Stern, president of the thuggish SEIU was a giest
at the White House 22 times in the first six months of the Obama presidency. So what do the unions get for their payola?
How about huge ownership positions in government funded Chrysler and General Motors, a scaled down auditing
bureaucracy that can no longer effectively look into union finqncial shenanigans and the egregious "card check" bill
that will allow union organizers to strongarm individual employees instead of relying on a secret ballot to unionize? Pay
for play in action, Democrat style.
The Dems reprsent extremist organizations that want to re-write the constitution and transform all of American society
after their own image. That would include the environmental groups who say they want America to "go green" and then
tie up every single wind and solar farm project because it might "look offensive" in the landscape or transgress the
habitat of the desert puffer toad. This is the group that actually wants us back in horses and carriages. That's if we can
breed non-farting horses that don't release methane into the atmosphere with their flatulence. The cap-and-trade nincompoop
who sits in the oval office represents Al Gore's now discredited junk science and the climate change fascists at the United
Nations who also want Americans to shut down our factories, ground our planes and park our cars. They figure that if
they can force us back into a 19th century technological environment and bilk us of American taxpayer money then they
can eventually catch up. Democrats represent gays who want to redefine marriage and who claim non-existent constitutional
rights and status as a protected class. Democrats represent the non-working poor who salivate at the prospect of seizing
what has been earned by the working non-poor (wealth redistribution), and militant blacks who never were slaves but demand
financial reparations from whites who never owned one. Following a rigorous program of public denigration and confiscatory
taxation the Democratic party has declared war on the upper and middle classes.
Democrats represent a movement to re-value traditional American values. Abortion, gay marriage, unlimited government
intrusion into the private sector, radical environmentalism, anti-military, anti-law enforcement norms. amesty for illegal
aliens and open borders going forward, national security policy that amounts basically to a series of glib, vapid speeches
and has no teeth are among favorite Democrat hobby horses.
So why would anyone who isn't a brick short of a full load vote for the Democrats? Blame the Republicans and the last
Republican administration. Republicans fell in love with the notion of being indistinguishable from Democrats, and they
have succeeded famously. Abandoning the policies of Ronald Reagan they lost every semblance of fiscal discipline and
launched a series of foreign misadventures without a clear guiding policy, realistic expectations or a feasible extraction
plan. In a recent Rasmussen poll of voters, 46% still favored Democrats, 18% favored Republicans and 23% favored
an imaginary "Tea Party," disaffected conservatives and Independents who are sick of both existing political parties.
Congress is polling at its' lowest approval rating ever, and Obama has slipped to 47%, well below other presidents
ten months into tgheir first term. This is an administration and congress whose spending would emkbarrass even the drunkest
of sailors. Moody's has recently re;eased a statement threatening the triple A credit rating of the U.S., the country is
wallowing in double digit unemployment and a stubborn, deep recession and two wars. And this is better than the Bush
years how?
Barack Obama and the Democrats won election to power by running the ultimate scam on the American people. They
did it with glitzy Hollywood sets, social marketing, shady contributions, the internet, and willingly compliant and
uncriticasl media that abandoned its' traditional role of questioning and fact-checking, and the support of now exposed
crooked organizations like ACORN. Old time Chicago gangster Al Capone couldn't have orchestrated it any better. The
key to their strategy was a deep-seated American yearning for change -- change from Washington pay for play, change
from government by lobby, change from corruption, graft and scandal, change from open-ended American commitment
abroad with no strategy for either victory or exit. What they got in the Obama-Democrat administration was more pay
for play (only with different players). more and more influential lobbyists, more corruption, more graft. more scandal,
more foreign commitment without definiton of victory. big government takeovers of the automaotive and financial
industries, an attempt to take over the healthcare industry, bailouts, more deficits, more spending, bigger government
and taxes out the wazoo. Not, apparently, the kind of change Americans had in mind.
The bitter truth is that while in two elections Democrats commanded the majority of votes, once elcted they have not
governed as representative of the majority. The polls show it starkly and umistably, whether one looks at the stimulus
bailouts,, the closure of Guantanamo Bay, the trial of enemy combatannts in the criminal justice system or the proposed
healthcare reform. Americans are saying "NO," and Democrats are saying "YES, WE'RE DOING IT ANYWAY!" They
simply do not represent the majority, exposing the obvious truth that they were elected by making false promises which
they are now breaking and claiming that poor, dumb Americans just misunderstood. So what can possibly fix this mess,
if it can be fixed? That will be the topic of tomorrow's post.