Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Dastards!


The Democrats in the Senate are plotting: Coburn warns against majority-vote tactic in weekly Republican address
Yes; they're planning to pass legislation with a Majority Vote. Imagine! allowing a measly majority to determine the outcome of a legislative process!
Well, it's true, in these benighted times, that we really don't want our government to function.
Actually, in this case (Health Care Reform), I blame the President.
One of the things being said against him in the campaign was that a "community organizer" was a poor reccomendation for the presidency. I disagreed. It seemed to me then, silly fool that I was, that someone whose expertise was in getting the various stakeholders in a process to meet and negotiate was exactly what a President ought to do.
Well, I am so out of date here. The President's job today is to roll over the opposition and rule autocratically.
Observe, if you will, the relative efficiencies of George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama. It's no contest. By trying to be collegial in the face of absolute opposition, the President has frittered away his mandate. Mandates are nice, but such limited things. Bush started with one, but 6 months into his presidency, he was accorded a failure. Then he "hit the Trifecta". Remember? Pretty much ruled by fiat the rest of his administration. Pretty much dismantled the federal government in the process.
All the king's horses and all the king's men are unlikely to restore it in our lifetime (well, mine. If you're very young you might eventually see a functional government).

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