Posted on 05/23/2005 12:42:32 PM PDT by CHARLITE
One of Rush Limbaugh's favorite jokes is about how God has a press conference to warn humanity that the world will end the next day. The headlines vary according to style.
New York Daily News has "We're Gone!" in huge type. Wall Street Journal says "Markets to Close Early."
Washington Post runs "World Will End - Women and Minorities Hardest hit."
For decades, liberal activists and Democrat pollsters have finely tuned their rhetoric through focus groups, polls and so forth and it's curious that they don't see what's looming for them on the election horizon. Contrary to their protestations, their message has certainly gotten out and the words they sent around are coming back around.
The Democrat filibuster is a glass ceiling. The judges President Bush has nominated all have illustrious careers. Some were elected by large majorities of actual voters. Some were appointed to the bench and confirmed by large majorities. Now the Democrats are the ones who don't want every vote counted. They don't want any vote to be held at all. They aren't seeking to observe the "advice and consent" provision in the Constitution because "command and control" is what they really seek - and what the voters have been taking away from them.
In tandem with the decline of the political left is the implosion of the leftist Old Media. Network TV was down to 53% of the TV watching audience in 1999 and now it's at 43% and falling. At the same time, ad rates for prime time rose 33% and that's a formula for deferred disaster. Paying customers won't shell out more for less forever. And aside from the Remote Vote, more and more people spend time getting news from Internet sources and aren't even being tracked in the surveys of TV watchers. What is known is that ad budgets are shifting to the online audience at a rising pace.
When the 2006 and 2008 elections come around, fewer people will be listening to the debunked and disgraced disinformation machines. While Old Senate Demosaurs learned the game back when procedural delaying tactics and obstruction could be done in cloakrooms while the reliably leftist Old Media pointed the lights and cameras elsewhere, that's not happening any more.
The Democrat memos and strategy documents outlining the Democrat agenda are already out there. Just like the days when Democrat Byrd was filibustering the 1964 Civil Rights Act while Democrat governors were blocking schoolhouse doors and voting booths, the Democrats are now down to blocking the doors to the courthouse. And they seem to think that nobody will notice that old bigot Byrd and the Democrats are trying to do what they've always done - deny opportunity and career advancement to deserving women and minorities.
And nobody's buying the CBS/CNN/NY Times party line that somehow this injustice is not the Democrats' fault.
As this ugly spectacle continues to drag on through days, weeks, months and years, even the most news-immune in the general public can't help getting the information. And all are becoming aware that We The People can step in to break the deadlock the old fashioned way - at the ballot box. We are the ones who can push past that 60 Senator barrier by simply ousting more Daschle Democrat obstructionists with each election cycle.
The old days of all politics being local are gone for good. The Constitution is national, and that's at the center of this overly prolonged ordeal. The internet is global and that's where messages not only get out, they get archived for future reference and ongoing evaluation. No CBS or NY Times or Newsweek editor can "spike" the real news or hide errors, omissions or outright lies. Concepts like "below the fold" become perceptually irrelevant. We really can guard the guardians now, and that's how we guard our own best interests.
The longer and louder the leftists squabble over their "sacred" Senate rules, the less patience the voters have with the blockade process. What the Democrats are doing is destructive - and women and minorities are hardest hit.
The Wall Street Journal is the only paper I find worth buying. It has a wide variety of stories on social trends, goofy politicians and other interesting stuff, as well as market news.
Our local paper, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is fish wrap. I only read it as I have a government job and need it to help pass the time.
Free Republic and other Internet pages contain the real news and real truths. The MSM is just an arm of those who want the USA to become a has been world power in the style of France.
On a good day the the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel aspires to be fishwrap.
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