For too long now the Democrats have been relying on the butt kissing MSM for feedback on the feelings of the American public. Instead of getting a true direction of the blowing winds the Dems have been getting the report they wanted to hear. The question for congress is have they prepared for the coming political storm or will they get blown away during next years election.

Congress is going to get more of an earfull when folks show up for the 9/12 Tea Party.

And a paid columnist for a flaming leftist America-hating website to boot? We know the Obamination is in trouble and I suppose there is some joy to watching the filth that calls itself the Democrat party feeding on its own, but Paglia is a communist homosexual and as such deserves no time on this site. That is until we get government back and and prosecute her and the rest of her sick brethren for trying to corrupt America’s youth.

“It was as if Democrats live in a utopian dream world, divorced from the daily demands and realities of organization and management. ” — Camille Paglia

and his band of misfits running the White House as well as she did in that article can be on the front page any day as far as I’m concerned. To me, it is all the more delicious that she is a lefty feminist Obama supporter.

“Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? ”

She asks a good question.. and one needs only to browse sites like Daily Kos and other lefty blogs to see how far this has gone.

But in their arrogance lies our opening to take back this country.. let’s not blow it by thinking we don’t need to do a lot of work to get the Republican brand respected again.

Probably because Democrats aren’t liberals… being left of center != liberal, and being liberal != being politically left (necessarily).

I mean, as I’ve said before, I call myself a liberal. The fact that the progressive Left often treats “liberal” as a pejorative should be telling to all of us about where their intentions lie with respect to individual freedom.

Comrade Obama’s band have never had any intention of making the government work or of doing anything that would actually benefit the American people as the people themselves would define benefit. Comrade Obama got elected to follow Alinsky’s dictate and “burn it down.” He wants to bankrupt the US and use that economic catastrophe to “remake” the Country.

Either Paglia knows this and is just being cynically dishonest in acting as if BHO were anything other than a bombthrower or she too is lost in a ’60s haze of naivete.

In the last two weeks the opposition to the health care plan has gone down from a 10 point deficit to a two point deficit. While it’s very clever to say that that has been the two weeks Obama has been vacation, it has also been two weeks in which Ted Kennedy was lionized as one of the great humanitarians of all time, with seven priests concelebrating his funeral Mass, and a Catholic cardinal praising him to the skies. Obama was there participating in the festivities. The “let’s do it for Ted” sales pitch may have worked better than we thought. Republicans have been generally silent, with Laura Bush yesterday praising (!!!) the job Obama has been doing. The media pushback, aided by general Republican passivity, and comments like Mrs. Bush’s may be working better than we think. I’d love it to be too late, but the situation still looks very tenuous.

This quote is taken from the book Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin-

“In 2006 the Census Bureau reported that there were 46.6 million people without health insurance. About 9.5 million were not United States citizens. Another 17-million lived in households with incomes exceeding $50,000 a year and could , presumably, purchase their own health care coverage. Eighteen million of the 46.6 million of the uninsured were between the ages of eighteen and thirty four, most of whom were in good health and not necessarily in need of health-care coverage or chose not to purchase it. Moreover, only 30 percent of the non-elderly population who became uninsured in a given year remained uninsured for more than twelve months. Almost 50 percent regained their health coverage within four months. The 47-million ” uninsured” figure used by Pelosi and others is widely inaccurate ” ( Levin,2009 p.107)

because they feel they have no other option, and that they will fail, they do not have the votes in the House or the Senate.

If they did, they would have voted.

Plain and simple.

“Why did it take so long for Democrats to realize that this year’s tea party and town hall uprisings were a genuine barometer of widespread public discontent and not simply a staged scenario by kooks and conspirators?”

Maybe when they see DC on 9-12 they will gulp real hard…..

they seem to have the head in the sand thing down really well

“If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi…”

How interesting. President Obama is the Chief Executive, but the blame should go first to the Speaker of the House? How Trumanesque.

I agree with much of what Ms. Paglia has written here, but I’m sorry, the President is primarily to blame for this mess. He is to blame because he has been behaving just as he did when he was one of a hundred Senators (or one of who knows how many state senators in Illinois before that) rather than as the Chief Executive. As a legislator, his M.O. was to lay back in the tall grass and wait for someone else to do all the hard work and heavy lifting and then step in to take or share credit for the work of others. The Chief Executive Officer is not allowed that kind of leeway. In the case of each of the major budget busting bills of his young administration (Cap & Tax, the Stimulus, and now Health Care), the President turned the entire process over to Pelosi/Reed.

To say, as Ms. Paglia implies, that he had no input and hence no blame for the result is to (1) stretch the bounds of credibility, and (2) ignore the obvious. The fact of the matter is that President Obama was perfectly happy with everything that the Pelosi/Reed tag-team has produced. Were he not, he surely would have been able to push for changes to make it more to his liking. He did not. Except for the fact that there has been enormous grass-roots push-back, there is no doubt that Obama would have signed the health care bill in a heart-beat.

The President, like evening news anchor men/women, is a good speaker when he is reading from a script. He was not an effective legislator (either in Illinois or D.C.), and he is most certainly out of his league as a Chief Executive. But out of his league or not, he is still the Chief Executive, and he therefore is the first person on whose doorstep blame for this mess should be laid.

Like the MSM and Van Jones (“who’s he?”), the kooky kids have not mentioned the word “Paglia” even once, to include a stray comment responding to an unrelated diary.

http://www.dailykos.com/search?offset=0&old_count=30&string=Paglia&type=both&sortby=time&search=Search&count=30&wayback=20160&wayfront=0

This is why I don’t take them or their liberal ideas and pals (Obama) seriously. They completely ignore obvious objections to their ideas and refuse to even acknowledge them.

If she doesn’t understand why she can go down the hall and ask Joan Walsh to clarify things for her.

Paglia’s proclivities aside, it is heartwarming to see one of its mother protagonists feeding the Demrats from their own waste.

Unfortunately for the country and Demrat folks they are stuck with a POTUS (Parking -O- Ticket -U- Scofflaw) that just keeps nurturing the angry antagonists.

Delightful offering, Mr. Perrin!

Gerald Stephens
Hartford CT

Oh, I forgot to thank Ms. M. Dowd for her contribution to the antagonists food source!

G. Stephens