Maureen Dowd wrote a good column yesterday. A rather humorous kick to the Neiman Marcus dressed Caribou Barbie, actually killing a Caribou for the Christian joy of it.
How can Palin go wrong playing to the NRA, the Ted Nugent camo crowd, the Militias, the Tea Party and Evangelical Christians so tuned to our Americanized "shoot first take no crap" Jesus. Add to that number of miscreants, all the Republicans who would rather vote for Beelzebub before any "tax the rich" Democrat, subtract all the Democrats to lazy to vote and it looks like a majority to me. Though I suppose it depends upon whether Independent are as stupid as the seem to be.
Pass the Caribou Stew
Maureen Down
NYT Dec 7, 2010In movies with animals, they often have a line in the credits assuring that no animals were harmed. In "Sarah Palin’s Alaska," they should have a line at the end assuring that "almost every living creature involved in this show was harmed."
The president said he couldn’t stick to his guns, even though most Americans agreed with him, because Republicans feel that this is their holy grail: "the single most important thing that they have to fight for as a party." But isn’t helping those in need rather than gilding the rich a holy grail for Democrats? Does he think for a second that the Republicans will relent and be more reasonable in two years? If he believes he can go out in 2012 and attack the Republicans when the political stakes are much higher, why couldn’t he do it now?
It’s not that hard to explain to Americans in distress that the protection of vast fortunes should not be the priority of government.
There is the conundrum. That in this last election the American voters gave a MANDATE for Republicans to do exactly what they did, while the polls show that isn’t what 2/3 of Americans wanted.
So what is going on?
Sure Democrats did not come out in the mid term, the Tea Party played the media like a Stradivarius and the Supreme Court handed no limits to the money the wealthy could spend on political advertising. But even that does not add up to 2/3 of Americans not wanting Republicans to do what Republicans do.
I am sad to say it comes down to three familiar issues which elected officials and the advertising supported media are loath to address for the backlash. Which is what the Tea Party movement is. The majority of White Americans will put their own economic self interest secondary to their ignorance and intolerance regarding immigration, race and Evangelical Christianity.