Hope and Change?

Just when you think that you’ve heard it all from liberals, you haven’t, as something always happens to dispel that illusion.

Not that I’m an avid follower of ancient Chinese military tactics but about 2500 years ago a general called Sun-Tzu did offer some good advice when he opined that, “You should keep your friends close and your enemies even closer”.

Well one of the enemies that I keep close is the Huffington Post and in yesterday’s edition some idiotic woman plumbed new depths even for the Left.

The thrust of her ill-thought message was to try to put a positive spin on Chappaquiddick. There is none of course but this clown tried anyway. The opening question was “How would Mary Joe regard Kennedy’s life, career and death”?

And, if that were not asinine enough, the last couple of lines said it all where she proposed that, upon reflection, Miss Kopechne may well have concluded it was worth it. What?

A young woman dies in a car and some drunken rich kid does not report it for 10 hours. So this demented woman at the “Huffington Post” really thinks that Mary Joe will be waiting at the gates to Heaven to welcome him home. For a start, I doubt that is his final destination but, just assuming it is, she won’t be waiting with a white robe and a set of wings. More likely, it’ll be a life vest with lead weights in the pockets.

For Obama, though, Kennedy’s demise could not have been more timely. Good old Teddy breathed his last and thus presented the drive-by media with something else to talk about for a week or two instead of the plummeting policies of and approval for this Administration. And they desperately wanted something as even the hurricanes are not cooperating by providing their long-anticipated mayhem.

“Obama Care” is in trouble as seen by the ongoing furors at Town Hall meetings across the country and that is surely not surprising when people hear pronouncements from Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Ezekiel, to the extent that doctors should not spend their time worrying about individual patients but think, instead, about Society as a whole. Is there no end to the callous shame of the liberal Left?

The rest of the promised miracle isn’t doing too well either. Months ago now, we were told that if Obama’s stimulus package were passed that unemployment would not rise above 8%. Well earlier this month it was at 9.4 and the projection from the Department of Labor is that a further 2.3 million people will lose their jobs next year.

For the vast majority of Americans that is bad news indeed but maybe not for Obama and his “fellow travelers” who seem Hell-bent on destroying Capitalism as we know it. Not only is the picture bleak on the job front but the economy declined by a further 1% in the previous quarter.

But, “Wait a minute”, I can hear the liberals now. “What about ‘Cash for Clunkers”? “Surely that was a success”? Not really.


For a start, it may put some new-car dealerships out of business altogether as they wait for the refunds from the Department of Transportation. It may be a revelation to politicians and bureaucrats but private enterprise relies on positive cash-flow in order to survive and, right now, all the flow has been out from the dealerships. Secondly, while the last month or so has seen a lot of inventory moved, what is going to happen in the months to come as far fewer people will be buying cars because they’ve just done so? Thirdly, the program has decimated the used-car business for obvious reasons.

And, Oh by the way, there’s going to be a lot of surprised taxpayers in April of next year when they learn that the $4500 is taxable.

For a brief moment earlier this week, there was a glimmer of hope to bash the Right when several windows were smashed at the Democratic headquarters in Denver, Colorado. But it turned out that, when apprehended, the perpetrator was from a Left-wing Activist organization. When the wheels start to come off, there’s no stopping!

How’s all that Hope and Change working for ya?