Fantasia!

You have always been able to rely on Hollywood for fantasies and not just the ones on the screen in glorious Technicolor.

Go back to the early part of the last century and many of the denizens therein were convinced that revolution was just around the corner.

Then fast-forward to the present day and we find the likes of Charlie Sheen, an unashamed “truther”, who keeps writing letters to Obama demanding an inquiry into his conviction that the United States government was in cahoots with the 911 terrorists or, at the very least, knew of and encouraged the plot in order to justify a war.

The latest in the long line of freaks is Woody Allen who is insisting that Congress be disbanded which, superficially at least, does have some pragmatic merit, but then Woody really goes off the rails by suggesting that Obama be allowed to “be a dictator for a while” in order to get things done.

For a start, Mr. Allen is Jewish and should be able to recall what can happen when a people relinquish control and restraint on a political figure. Furthermore Mr. Allen, do please tell us when any dictator has been willing to step aside after “a while” or ever unless forced to by revolution or coup?

The timing too is just as curious as is the idiocy of the message itself.

Ever since the “Immaculation” back in January of 2009, the Obama regime has controlled every aspect of the federal government and thus, for all intents and purposes, he has been a dictator. And it has always sounded odd when the Democrats on Capitol Hill complain that they have had no cooperation from the GOP. The fact is, until very recently with the election of Scott Brown, they didn’t need it.

Then last Tuesday, the drumbeat grew even louder but with a new twist as the backlash against incumbents on both sides of the aisle became manifest when Rand Paul beat out a rival who was being backed by Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, Dick Cheney and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Those who were thrown out and those who didn’t heard the message loud and clear but did they listen?

And elsewhere in the Democratic party, Obama’s stamp of approval meant diddly to the voters in Pennsylvania and Arkansas where outsider candidates ended the 30-year career of Arlen Specter and pushed Blanche Lincoln limping into a runoff.

There was a lonely bleat of cluelessness from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) which congratulated itself on the hollow triumph of holding the seat of the late John Murtha of Pennsylvania. Marie Antoinette had nothing on it. Could the DCCC really have missed the fact that Mark Critz held on by opposing healthcare reform, denouncing cap and trade, embracing the Second Amendment and his state’s gun culture and standing against abortion?

That’s hardly a vote of confidence in Pelosi, Reid and the Great One.

So where does this leave the regime come November?

Despite a growing GDP, 3 out of 4 voters say the country is still in a recession and only 2% think the recession will be over by November. More than half of the country believes we’re on the wrong track as a nation, an assessment that has darkened over the last few months and congressional approval is at its lowest ebb in a quarter of a century.

Seat counting is the sport of the Beltway insiders, the pastime of a permanent party worried more about preserving its power than doing anything useful with it.

If all politics used to be local, now all politics is personal. Rand Paul has no more allegiance to GOP strategy than his maverick Dad. Among Democrats, there isn’t even a consistent lineup of interest groups behind the incumbent killers. Big labor, for instance, lined up with Specter and against Lincoln.

What will all this do?

What it is already achieving in abundance. It will communicate the headaches and heartaches of the American people to the grandees within the gates of Washington but will they listen?

They rarely have in the past.