Unemployed at last.

In the end the medium is the message, and the medium of Glen Beck was hate. Not to mention naked greed. The distribution channel was Fox. No surprise there.

One could have hoped that the half of America’s political system that lost the election would have accepted its loss, and worked on better policy. But with all the energy of the Glenn Becks of the world, why bother?  Absent choherent policy, incoherent hate keeps the Republican ball bouncing. Until as one Fox propagandist put it, something could ‘stick’ to the ‘teflon’ president that could bring him down.

Frustrating as it might be for the Hannity’s of the Fox ‘verse’, the timing is not with them. The timing works against them when the unemployed, the near homeless and the weight of what remains of America’s middle class is being crushed by the consequences of Republican policy.  And in plain terms, a person has to be just plain stupid to cut themselves off from their revenue while increasing their expenditures. Which is exactly what the Bush tax cuts did.

Stupid is as stupid does, to paraphrase the movie.

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.