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Robert R. Owens, PhD
Culture Kampf & The Kamikaze Congress
December 22, 2009
There is a culture war raging in America.
It has wreaked havoc in our national psyche since the
Summer of Love elevated the
ersatz individualism and limousine liberalism of the Boomers from childhood
fantasy to national fever-dream. This is a historically traceable event with
vast implications for the future. He who controls the past shapes the present
and creates the future. If history doesn’t help us live in the here and now what
good is it?
Instead of heeding history, Congress reads the New York Times, the
Washington Post, Time Magazine or some other reflecting pool of
Liberal philosophy. Or they tune to the satirical news of
John Stewart,
Stephen Colbert,
Keith Olbermann or
Rachel Maddow. Take Virginia’s
Senator Jim Webb as an example. He ran as a conservative
Blue Dog Democrat. He only won because the corporations once known as the
mainstream media created a scandal based on a one time use of what his opponent
said was a nonsense word from his childhood, “Macaca.”
Once in the Senate Mr. Webb avoided the summer of Tea Party protests by
traveling overseas instead of meeting with his constituents, which was
probably a good idea since all he seems to do is talk right and vote left.
In a recent form letter sent in response to a personal note he states, “Together
with 60 of my colleagues, I voted in favor of proceeding to debate the proposed
healthcare reform legislation. I have yet to decide whether I will support final
passage of the bill.” I’ll give ten-to-one that after all his deciding he’ll
vote in lock-step with the party of power to pass whatever monstrosity the
Obama-Reid-Pelosi triumvirate manages to bribe and bully to the floor of the
Senate along with that anonymous group of 60 co-conspirators.
In the House, the speaker rules with an iron hand. Like
Nurse Ratched on steroids she does whatever necessary to force her San
Francisco version of reality down the throats of an unwilling nation. With all
the integrity of
Charles Rangel, the personal magnetism of
Barney Frank and the future of
James Traficant, the House leadership whip their herd of lemmings towards
the cliff and “poof!” – suddenly our
two-day-a-week Congress works
weekends passing bills no one reads.
The conventional wisdom of the chattering class tells us the Democrats have long
been known to favor
circular firing squads and the electorate will pull the trigger in
November 2010. Don’t believe it. These Blue Dogs and Progressives haven’t
been convinced to commit
hara-kiri for their emperor. There’s something else going on here.
As our self-serving representatives look to self-preservation, I believe their
leadership has finally begun to at least
paraphrase a Founding Father, “We either hang together or we hang
separately.” Meaning if they bite the bullet and pass the entire Liberal
legislative agenda, healthcare take-over, cap-n-trade energy tax, endless
amnesty/open borders import-a-voter immigration reform with a few
omnibus/stimulus pork roasts thrown in to buy votes ACORN won’t need to steal,
they’ll experience a pre-defeat reincarnation as the perpetually re-elected.
Americans by the thousands who never heard of Saul Alinsky have now read his
book Rules for Radicals. Suddenly the scales fall from our eyes and we
see how a determined group of ultra-radicals organized their way to power. At
last we’ve been roused from our media-induced trance and understand the radical
plan to
remake America before the next election. We were napping while the forces of
Mordor searched for
Sauron. We were watching the game while the hijackers were aiming their
ACORN powered,
SEIU financed ship at the twin houses of Congress. We were concentrating on
making a living and raising our families while the Progressive paymasters,
casino capitalists and greed merchants turned
Pleasantville into
Pottersville. We’ve watched in amazement as we tighten our belts and
Washington adds a few more notches.
Feverishly, we’re trying to rearm after the Pearl Harbor of November 2008. The
tide of battle is rushing over us like a torrent. Every day new regulations,
more debt and radical legislation are being spun over America like threads over
Gulliver. The Tea Party Patriots and born-again community organizers of the
right believe it is not too late to mount a D-Day at the ballot box in November
2010. The talking-heads tell us this is a Kamikaze Congress ready to go down in
flames. Don’t believe it. They know it’s now or never. Impose their
centrally-planned collectivist clap-trap over the Land of the Free before
Americans get a chance to vote them out of the Home of the Brave.
I believe the
Obama-Reid-Pelosi regime sells this Charge of the Blight Brigade to the
backbenchers by assuring them their ACORN-Steal-the Vote and
Immigration-import-a-voter strategy will assure them of everlasting electoral
life. They’re saying though it may be the endless great recession for the rest
of us its “Happy Days are Here Again” for them. These kamikazes plan to live to
fly another day. But then again, no plan survives first contact with the enemy.
Don’t despair. Keep the faith. We shall overcome! |
