The so called moderate wing of the Republican Party is only slightly coming to its senses. Christopher Buckley, son of conservative icon William Buckley and late supporter of Barack Obama, seems flabbergasted that the new administration is "spreading the wealth around". Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama. He also seems flabbergasted that it seeks such big government programs, class warfare and centralized control. What did he think the left liberal wing of the Democrat party was going to do, denounce its own policies? As reported by Hot Air "A few trillion dollars in spending later, comes the reckoning".
David Brooks still struggles with the aesthetics of the "Rush Limbaugh" wing of the Republican party. They seem so loud and boisterous. But he informs us that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was. It is remarkable to me that these polite, "open minded", and reasonable people cannot see what is right in front of their face. Of course, I believe that They Are Who We Thought They Were . I really do not know what these "moderate" Republicans are going to do. Brooks is experiencing an existential breakdown. On the one hand, he cannot stomach the Sara Palins of this world because they do not fit his high intellectual standards. On the other hand, he realizes he and others like him have been played, or really, let themselves be played, by a Harvard "intellectual" follower of Saul Alinsky. Talk about street naivety. As he pines for the return of Alexander Hamilton to lead the moderates out of the wilderness,Tea Parties get viral. Obama seems so smart, articulate and reasonable, how could he be doing this?
Of course, there is the small matter of the Pelosi-Reid crowd too, but who notices? And who are these Santelli and Limbaugh people anyway? They are people who cannot bear the thought of hard work and success being demonized and materially punished. People like Buckley and Brooks write for a living. They need to take a walk outside once in a while. Brooks once wrote a book called Bobos in Paradise , his self projection of the new effete upper middle class in which he so comfortably fits. I never really got what the heck he was talking about, but I suggest he and Buckley take another look around. Rather than hoping Hamilton rises from the dead off the cliffs of New Jersey, he should realize that this is the most significant culture war in our nation's history, with the exception of the Civil War.
As Bob Dylan famously wrote,"Something is happening here and you don't know what it is, do you, Mr Jones"? It really isn't all that difficult guys.
How long will it take Prez BO to run out of rich people?
Posted by: weezie | March 08, 2009 at 07:43 PM