I believe you are right on all counts. I've never witnessed anything like it, but then I never thought I would see a purely evil tyrant sitting in the White House. He's not stupid...he knows exactly what he's doing.
"He wants to shell shock us into defeat."
I was listening to Rush yesterday. He was talking about the confiscation of bullets, and expressed shock that people weren't burning up his phone lines to discuss it. He wondered aloud if anyone cared.
Obama's strategy is working, at least in part.
Couple of ways to look at Rush's surprise at that.
One - it's just a tad arrogant on his part to think that if no one's talking to him about a subject, that people aren't very concerned about it, and discussing it elsewhere in volume.
Two - could be that his callers are having a hard time fixing their attention on that one assault, when they're enduring a virtual fusillade of assaults from Washington. No sooner do we recover from the shock of one punch to the gut, we receive another. And another. And another.
Rush may not appreciate the fact that people out here are reeling from the multiple blows to their senses. I, myself, had to turn it all off today, and seek other distractions. I can hardly digest everything that's come down the pike in the last week.