mad as Beck v2

It was predictable that Glen Beck would have one of two reactions to the passage of Americas health reform package. If the bill failed, Beck would have congratulated himself and celebrated the defeat as a ‘win for real Americans’. If the bill passed Beck would have ranted about how ‘communists had taken over the world’ and how ‘our liberties’ have been destroyed.

Now the general rule is that everyone deserves respect and Glenn Beck is no different. In my judgment the sole exception are hypocrites.  Those ‘Judas goats’ that lead others down a path of destruction for their own personal gain are exempted from the general rule.  Now Mr. Beck has been posing as an educator teaching his flock since the new year. With chalk flying and black boards twirling, Beck makes connections  between various drawings to illuminate his ‘truth’ of the state of current events.

There are a couple of problems with this, starting with the fact that Beck has no eduction. In fact Beck has one attempt at a single and unrelated course which he dropped.  While I can sympathize with any one that the intellectual cost of acquiring an education is high, I can not sympathize with a man who tried one course and failed at it and who now poses as a teacher. Beck knows nothing, and the only thing he has proved is unable to do what millions of American college students do every day, learn.

Economics, political theory, political philosophy are non trivial studies. Mr. Beck is busy faking competency.  Worse yet his pontifications on subjects he literally has proved incapable of mastering are damaging the country. The only thing improved by this academic fraud is Mr. Becks pocket book. Imagine our surprise. Be prepared for a new movement and a new book.  Title to be announced.

So based on what Mr. Becks own learning history is and what Mr. Beck is doing calling him a hypocrite is an easy call. Based on the connection between Mr. Becks fake teacher role and his income, the motivations are clear. Mr. Beck is making a fortune out of misleading his fellow countrymen.

I do find it odd that what outrages Beck the most is that the poor would be given respite from pain and suffering. Beck was not always wealthy. Life was not always particularly easy for him. One would have guessed that having ‘been there, done that’, Mr. Beck would have had more sympathy for the poor. Apparently there is not as much money mining that theme.

And so, we are left with an intellectual fraud misleading his fellow Americans against their own best interests in order to make a buck. Mind you its a good buck.  Far more than Arnold s’ six grand. Perhaps Arnold thought his payment for misleading his countrymen was also a good buck.

Until the very end. Read up on that, Mr. Beck.

Beckola…

Oh come on Glenn…really…giving a little kid health care is not the end of yours or anyone’s liberty. I mean seriously. The only ‘turning point’ is the end of political fraud by your clients, the end of the medical insurance fraud by your clients, a whole lot less suffering and reduction of the national deficit.

You’ve managed to find a demographic that prefers an uneducated ignoramus rather than facts.  Your money train will go on Glenn.  You will never be discovered for your own lies. And the poor, and the sick will stop suffering. It’s a win win situation.

Meet the New Boss

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed how ‘Chuck’, has managed to derail the democratic agenda? Almost single handedly?  Give this man credit. He knows what he is doing. And considering the trashing his party took in the last election, it is no small feat to topple the agenda of the winner soon soon after an election.

‘Chuck’ never got that memo. He acts, and thinks and gets results as if his party still controlled the agenda. Down home farm boy charm, has charmed the big city rubes right out of power. His job is almost done. Another few months of lies, slow walking legislation, and insulting the intelligence of the nation,  and he will be back in the high life.

What the dem’s wouldn’t do to have their own Chuck?

Break bread with this guy at your own risk.

Meet the big problem for Democrats not to mention,  public policy. Max Baucus is Democrat in the same way Benedict Arnold was American, which is to say, in

name only and for one purpose only. While enjoying the title his membership in a majority party has given him, Max has been an integral part of the Republican game plan. I’m betting a big Mac that next election if Max runs, he will run as either independent or Republican.

Let’s not blame Max. He got his seat and held it because a timid party allowed it. At any time he could have been gone had anyone in leadership had the spine to take him one. But like the failed courtship of a handful of Republicans, Max was a date that was never going to happen. And now that he has so damaged the Obama agenda, Max will continue to enjoy the benifits of his chairmanship.

Say what you will about the Westminster system, but in that system Max would have been sitting in a dark corner somewhere the first time he tried to thwart the governments agenda. And that is where he should be, outside the party. He was not then, nor will he ever be a Democrat.