Obama and the Old Hat People

If you're an elected Democrat anywhere to the right of Barney Frank, and trying to defend a competitive seat next November, you've got to be starting to sweat.

You wake up in the morning and just like every other morning as far as the eye can see the only thing in the news is the president's health-care reform. It's starting to look like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are leading the Donner Party, the snowbound emigrants who bogged down in the Sierra Nevada winter in the 1840s and resorted to cannibalism to survive.

The betting is that with raw political muscle and procedural magic, the Congressional Democrats will pass something, call it reform and hand Barack Obama a "victory." Maybe, but I think what we are seeing with this massive legislation is that the Democrats in Washington have a bigger problem: Their party is looking so yesterday.

In a world defined by nearly 100,000 iPhone apps, a world of seemingly limitless, self-defined choice, the Democrats are pushing the biggest, fattest, one-size-fits all legislation since 1965. And they brag this will complete the dream Franklin D. Roosevelt had in 1939.

The culture still believes the U.S. has a hipster for president. But the Obama health-care bill, and maybe this whole administration, is starting to look totally out of sync with the new zeitgeist, the spirit of the age.

Everything about the health-care exercise is looking very old hat, starting with the old guys working on it. Max Baucus, Patrick Leahy, Pete Stark—all were elected to Congress in the 1970s, and live on as the immortals in Washington's Forever Land. But it's more than the fact that Congress looks old. The health-care bill is big, complex, incomprehensible and coercive—all the things people hate nowadays.

The Democrats are definitely out of synch advocating the failed notions and nostrums of a bygone age.

Just listen to Obama a second as he tells us doctors get $30,000 for cutting off a foot when it's really about $700.

Can anyone believe anything he says after that?

Or how about his idea that Congress will actually write into legislation his vision for a bill ~ how utterly ignorant and uneducated that man is.

True enough there's a body of Farleftwingtards in the background who "threaten" mayhem should their healthBS bill not pass, but they are not the broad masses.

I think just the readers of FR could take care of the Farleftwingtards in a long weekend if we needed to.

The Democrats are definitely out of synch advocating the failed notions and nostrums of a bygone age.

Just listen to Obama a second as he tells us doctors get $30,000 for cutting off a foot when it's really about $700.

Can anyone believe anything he says after that?

Or how about his idea that Congress will actually write into legislation his vision for a bill ~ how utterly ignorant and uneducated that man is.

True enough there's a body of Farleftwingtards in the background who "threaten" mayhem should their healthBS bill not pass, but they are not the broad masses.

I think just the readers of FR could take care of the Farleftwingtards in a long weekend if we needed to.

The Democrats are definitely out of synch advocating the failed notions and nostrums of a bygone age.

Just listen to Obama a second as he tells us doctors get $30,000 for cutting off a foot when it's really about $700.

Can anyone believe anything he says after that?

Or how about his idea that Congress will actually write into legislation his vision for a bill ~ how utterly ignorant and uneducated that man is.

True enough there's a body of Farleftwingtards in the background who "threaten" mayhem should their healthBS bill not pass, but they are not the broad masses.

I think just the readers of FR could take care of the Farleftwingtards in a long weekend if we needed to.

If we’re lucky they’re leading the Donner party.

I pray the analogy is accurate. Actually I would like to see Reid, Pelosi, Frank, Rangel, Dodd, Baucus, Kerry, Snowe, Collins, McCain, Graham, Hoyer and maybe Sheila Jackson-Lee re-enact the whole cannibalism thing.

Lee would obviously be the first eaten as she is totally insane to begin with. Probably would even know she was being eaten. It would probably take quite a few whacks to the head to get her down, crazy people are hard to take down, they’re sometimes freakishly strong, like the druggies sometimes are. And let’s face it, being crazy, she could snap at any moment and be a danger to any one of them. So this was an easy first choice.

Then of course the dems would pick off the RINOs. After each one they’d promise the remaining ones they wouldn’t vote for a Republican the next time. Then they’d all relax and be happy that the democrats liked them. Yeah they liked them all right, RINO burgers all around.

And then the remaining libs: Hoyer, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Rangel, Dodd, Baucus, and Kerry. Rangel gets it first, for all the crap they’ve had to endure trying to cover for his crooked @ss all these years. Plus he is meaty in some areas so we’re talking good eatin’ here. Baucus goes down hard next. He was a sacrificial guy from the beginning, the guy who was picked to put out a plan that sucked so much it made HR3200 (ie Obamacare) look palatable, relatively speaking.

Then they all went after Dodd. They were in the mood for some spicy italian meats, and plus Kerry said Dodd was depressed since the other half of the Waitress Sandwich died earlier that year, so they considered it a mercy killing, and in effect they issued his End-of-Life order by ‘ordering’ up a side of Dodd.

Then they took Pelosi out. Not only for a tender, fatter piece of meat, but they realized how awful a Speaker she was and that she really didn’t have any leverage over them anymore.

So at this point Hoyer, Kerry, Reid and Frank. Frank got ‘spammed’ next. Nobody really wanted to eat him, because, well, his creamy anal filling, but if you cook anything long enough, you can kill off the parasites.

So Hoyer, who looks like a shark, Kerry, who served in Vietnam, and ‘Dirty Harry’ Reid, the last three. Hoyer and Reid, being the most cunning and crafty, take Kerry out; Hoyer lies and says they’ve got some exonerating evidence against the swift boat veterans, behind that bush - and then Reid whomps him with a club and it’s dinner for two.

Now it’s down to Hoyer and Reid. Who survives the final dinner? AS they’re circling each other, each looking like a piece of food to the other ala Bugs Bunny, a rescue helicopter comes over a ridge. They both look up and Reid says, “we’re saved!” They both feign to put their weapons down, then stab each other, and fall down dead.

The co-pilot of the helicopter says “Why the hell did they do that? They would have been saved!”

The pilot, who was well aware of these liberal politicians, replied, “They were just being true to their natures. A shark is going to be a shark, and a weasel is going to be a weasel.”

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