As
TheOldSheepHerder surveys the pasture as the fog hangs over the pasture after
the election, a few things are clear. If
you had some idea that the day after the election, the sun would rise, there
would be a clear and authoritative course ahead and voices of dissention would
be moderated you were mistaken but not nearly as off base as old Turd Blossom,
Karl Rove. The Big Spenders Club is
irritated with Karl for frittering their money away on the “South Will Rise
Again” strategy to win a Presidential election.
There aren’t that many old angry white guys, and even fewer
Confederates. The majority of Americans
supported governance according to our Constitutional traditions and rejected
heavy handed big government Republican initiatives that interfered with people’s
lives and cost money. American’s are
experiencing a crushing burden exploding property taxes in a soft real estate
market. We hear a lot of bragging from
the GOP how they have held down taxes.
This lie is described by each of our tax statements arising out of the
last legislative session controlled by Republicans. Destroy my homes value through your recklessness,
then heap huge tax increases on my home and tell me how you never taxed me. President Obama reduced my income taxes to
help me pay for my increased property taxes courtesy of the GOP. The best description I heard of the GOP this
year was that they are not a Political Party but a mental illness. I think it may be helpful for activists to
keep this perspective. We can get a
whole lot less crazy in Minnesota if we make getting rid of Bachmann as big a
priority as the Take Down Cravaack effort was.
Graves was close. In two years,
with a lot more grass roots cash, who needs an extra $70.00 anyway, we can send
Bachmann back to the seventies where you can get patted down for talking like
she does. In two years the mid-terms
will see a shit storm of pay back from corporate America. The Chamber of Commerce is pissed that it
lost and it’s coming after you.
Democrats must have a strategy of focusing on 30 extreme House of
Representative incumbents for defeat. A
focused strategy will keep the GOP playing defense and continue Democratic
gains. There would be many in that House
that would be running when the new Democratic nominee for President runs in
2016. Taking thirty seats in 2014 would
give Democrats a slim majority. Having
all three branches of government would vastly accelerate the rate change that could
be effected. Minnesota State government went
all blue. The Democrats were gracious in
victory, pledging to work with Republicans.
In defeat, the Republicans were bitter, mean spirited, and as rigid and
partisan as ever. What a fine example
they make for their children. Just
imagine if they were Gay. The cancerous effects
of the right wing media machine are terrifying in our society and how it affected
this election. The reason conservatives
complain about Liberal Media bias is that it is a strategy for covering up a decade’s
long conservative take-over of media.
Ronald Reagan fast tracked Rupert Murdock’s citizenship so he could own
American media. He turned the news into
a version of the “National Enquirer” with a right wing message to it. A conservative judge ruled that Fox News did
not have to tell the truth in its news broadcasts in an FCC ruling. Republicans have used this media to spread
fear, dissention, anxiety, and most of all volumes of lies and slander. It is a cynical brainwashing tool. Fox News doesn’t even resemble a program
about a News show. Nearly half of the
Nation gets all its news from the same media source that would have you believe
that Hillary left Bill for Bigfoot.
Perhaps a court challenge could reverse this ruling and enable Americans
to ban false broadcasts of news as Canada did.
Exposing children to Fox News costs taxpayers money. Studies have shown that people who watch Fox
News know less about current events than people who watch no news. Remedial education in public schools is
skyrocketing. After Hurricane Sandy a
simple organizing strategy revealed itself.
The GOP base is so filled with hate that when Chris Christie did his job
rather than grand stand, the base hated him.
He committed the unforgiveable sin of being polite to the
President. He thanked the President, who
happened to be doing his job too. They
posed for pictures and talked to people devastated by the storm, offering
encouragement. Each of them were
executives in charge of large civil relief efforts. They just don’t do anything remotely like
this in the private sector and never will.
I think the most reviled Democrats should speak in the most glowing and
personal terms of every high ranking GOP official there is. How would the base react to hearing Barney
Frank describe Jim DeMint as a delightful man, a cherished colleague, or a
loyal public servant? Jim DeMint’s base
would know that he and Barney Frank had consummated a personal relationship. The Republicans have poured gas all over
themselves, the least we can do is strike a match. That bell you heard ringing my friend? That was just the end of round two.