I just finished watching Meet The Depressed. I do that not as a masochistic act, although self-flagellation would be less painful, but in order to gain perspective.
What I learned today was that:
Dick Armey was responsible for the Tax Day Tea Parties. Wow! What a guy. He was able to mobilize some 800 different events across the country. You know, I live in the Alamo City. Dick Armey is from Texas. Our Tea Party was all over the news - before, during and after. But yet I never heard Dick Armey’s name mentioned once. Not only is he a great organizer, he does it so quietly. I wonder if he would be considered a Community Organizer? Hmm. I don’t really think the Administration is so ignorant that they don’t get the whole Tea Party thing. They get it, they just need us to disregard it. So they place the radical right or red neck label on it, and shove it under the rug in the Oval Office. Yo, Bro, that ain’t so fly. Stick around and I’ll tell ya why.
The thing on April 15, that was really just a Tease Party. There will be more, they will be bigger, and even the printed press - who did not even write one word about the events in many cities, won’t be able to ignore the movement. And by the way, it’s not Republican or Democrat, it may not even be conservative or liberal, it is about preserving the American way of life. Yes that’s right. We like things the way they are. Baseball, apple pie, and capitalism.
I learned this morning from Harold Ford, the great economist, that we are at a turning point similar to the one that brought in the GI Bill and the Interstate System. The healthcare and various and sundry other “investments” the Obamanator intends to make, on our behalf, without a proxy from me personally, will deliver immeasurable returns. That is probably true. Because by the time we are able to measure them - 20 years from now - Obama will be long gone, and the country will be called the United States of the Chino America.
While David Gregory feigns playing hardball with his questions, he is a typical pitcher. He throws some strikes, but when the ball is hit back it him, he steps aside and lets it go by. He knows that he won’t get a straight answer, and he’ll never press for one. The interview with Dr. Summer was a great example of filler air time. They might as well have run commercials. At least they would make some money for the time. Oh, but wait. Nevermind. That would be capitalism.