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 There are reasons why I didn’t attend my 10 year high school reunion, and those reasons are now on display on the Sunday talk shows.
This administration and the parties are playing out every cheesy 80’s teen movie I was forced to watch during my years of ninth to twelfth grade. The template was the same, weather you watch The Karate Kid, Can’t Buy Me Love, or Revenge of the Nerds:
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1. Popular Guy runs the show because he’s popular and has been anointed as such by his mindless followers.
2. Popular Guy begins to spit on everyone, with his elite friends standing behind him and laughing.
3. Underdog rises up against all odds and defeats Popular Guy and his minions with truth, honor and justice.
4. Popular Guy is exposed for the “Rat-Fink” he truly is.
5. Popular Guy runs off with tail between his legs and we all live happily ever after.
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Let’s face it folks, the last nine months have been one really long rerun of all those movies put together. And now we are in the 3 chapter of the movie. Sorry Liberals and Progressives, but if the analogy fits...wear it.
Like all good analogies, something triggers the comparison. Take Senator Joe Wilson, for example, and let’s look at it through the same lense.
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 On Wednesday September 9th, a 'school dance' was held in the congressional gym. All the 'nerds', who for years had been ridiculed and even had their spokesman booed at previous gatherings, had been put in their place by the 'popular crowd' and religated to sit off to the side. The 'king of the dance' gets on stage and addresses the attendees. While the un-cool group sat there listening to insults to their kind, their thoughts and their beliefs, the 'popular guy' tells a flat out lie. One of the 'nerds' in a fit of anger cries out, “You Lied”. The 'popular guy', flanked by his perpetually drunk best friend on his right, and his two faced shallow girlfriend to his left, all stare at the man with complete contempt thinking of how they will make him pay for his insolence. How dare that 'nerd' speak out against the 'popular guy', and the popular class!
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Now days later, an apology is not enough. Even though one was issued to the President, and accepted. No, the members of the popular (strike that) democrat leadership are now asking for more apologies, and Joe is no longer playing. Rightfully so, because there will not be an apology that will be good enough, nor is one even necessary. However, Joe could go on a world wide apology tour like the president did this year, and the popular crowd along with the rest of the world, will sense weakness and continue to walk all over him. If this were still high school, the democrats would pull some prank on him, like cover his house with toilet paper to send an intimidating message to sit down and shut up. Oh, that’s right they did, they crashed is web site several times, but that’s different….right?
 I grew out of the high school mentality years ago, and the American public at large has as well. Saturday marked the beginning of a new age of Political Enlightenment for the American people and its view on their elected officials. This is no longer about Democrat or Republican, Popular or Nerd (sorry People magazine…stop putting Obama on the cover we no longer care), it’s now about Right versus Wrong. We the people, are going to be asking a lot of questions now about the corruption in Washington and talking points won’t help. Talking points are a product of a bygone era. They may have been effective before the monopoly of the media fell and before the internet; where a talking point can be debunked with a ten second search on Google. Don’t believe me? Ask Van Jones. After all it was not a Nixon era major news organization that dug into him, it was all on YouTube for heavens sake!
Speaking of talking points, the latest one pertaining to the unprecedented demonstration this weekend in DC is about two days too old, and it goes like this: “These guys are part of a shrinking Republican Party and make up only 10 to 20 represent of the population.” Wow, sounds good on the surface, but let’s take a closer look at that:
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Presidential Inoguaration of Obama
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9/12 March on Washington DC
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| Attendance: up to 1.8 million |
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Attendance: up to 2.2 million |
| Cost to Tax Payer: $160 -$170 Million |
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Cost to Tax Payer: $0 |
| Obama was elected with 52% of the vote, and drew up to 1.8 million people (the highest estimate issued by the park service), and was billed as the largest event ever held in Washington DC. One must remember that this was the culmination of a presidential election that was hammered by the media for 18 months, and is a tradition held every 4 years sense the founding of the republic. One must also note that 240,000 tickets were issued for the event and that the event cost the tax payers between $160 - $170 million dollars to put on. |
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The 9/12 March, that is only supposed to represent 10% to 20% of Americans, drew up to 2.2 million (according to ABC news), surpassing the inauguration as the largest event ever help in Washington DC. Not a single invitation was printed or sent out. The event wasn’t even announced by the national media till 60 days before it happened, and when it was, only a fraction of the national media uttered a word of it, until the day of the event. The march was held on a day not marked by any national holiday, and was the first of its kind, ever! Most importantly, this grass roots effort did not receive a single dollar of tax payer money.
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Don’t care for my logic? Well how about this one. The Democratic Party has always catered their legislative agenda to union member and special interest needs, thanks to the union's massive pocket books.  Just what percentage of the population are union members today? A 2008 survey, done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 12.4% of wage and salary workers are union members. The first year this survey was done was in 1983 when the rate was 20.1%. Why would a party continue to press an agenda in the face of contradictory pubic opinion polling data, when this demographic has shrunk by nearly 50% over the last 25 years? The only logical answer is they are being paid to do it, and in this new age of Political Enlightenment; corruption of such scale will no longer be permitted by the American people. This again drives home the issue of right vs. wrong.
Are there any lessons from my high school worth noting? At the end of my freshman year, our class decided they have had enough of the popular guy as our president, so we voted him out. We replaced him with someone that drove the principal nuts. He was not part of the popular click, and sure he stood at 6’3”, with orange hair, and had a spent more time in detention than in the library, but he spoke the truth. He held office though my senior year and his speech at graduation is the only one I can remember. “Go forth class of 1990 with pride, and make the word your own, for we all are Little Kings.” |
