Forget About the Constitution

You’ve been deeply insulted in the last two days. You probably didn’t notice. In fact, you more likely said thank you because you’ve been so deeply conditioned to believe in change and hope and audacity. It certainly has been audacious to the point of hubris.

It started with this seemingly innocuous announcement:

Pie In the Lame Duck Sky

Consider that proposal by Speaker Pelosi for a minute or two. Did you get the insult? No? Let me explain it to you.

You have been so receptive to selling your vote and your emotional support to the candidate that promises you the most stuff at the expense of “them” that now they know that they don’t even have to deliver the bribe to you before you act in response. The bell rings and you salivate. The dog biscuit never gets delivered by Speaker Pavlov…er, I mean Pelosi.

That’s right. The Congress has gotten in the habit of perpetuating themselves by deferring the bill through deficit spending and larding up the budget with extraneous welfare programs for so long that now they don’t even have to actually do anything before getting your vote. You vote because Nancy the Generous is suggesting that she “might” call the critters back into an additional feeding frenzy in celebration of their great victory. She’s going to give you a “middle class stimulus”. It hasn’t happened and in all probability won’t. That sounds an awful lot like a bell but no biscuit. Regardless, it works!

A few minutes ago I watched Fox News cover a speech by the Messiah to a rally in Ohio. It was a veritable litany of largesse. There were tax cuts for everyone, independence from imported oil, five million jobs here and ten million there, repaired infrastructure nationwide, free college for everyone, healthcare as comprehensive as what Congress gets, mortgage interest tax credits rather than deductions, and more. It was “chicken in every pot” taken to the 21st century extreme. There were mortgage payment reductions, a stimulus check in the mail soon enough to buy yourself a winter coat or your kid a new computer for school, and world peace in our time.

The obviously missing component was how all of this could be paid for. The subtle insult was the suspension of what we’ve come to know as the legislative process executed by an elected Congress and President. Senator Obama wasn’t saying he would “propose” or that he “promises” to do these things. He was speaking first person present tense as though he was the current Fuhrer and like the King of Siam he simply pronounced, “so let it be written; so let it be done.”

Chutzpah!

The adoring throng was rapturous. They whooped, they applauded, they swooned in the aisles. It was so easy to make this perfect place, it made them wonder why it hadn’t been done already. One can only wonder if they will notice tomorrow morning when they arise that none of it has occurred overnight. And then one hopes that they will not have buyer’s remorse the days, weeks, months and years after the election of this demagogue when the things don’t happen, the bills come due and the price in lost liberty is apparent.