Although I've been away from the GOP's politics of hysteria for two whole days--an alarmingly contented absence of battling heat, heaving boxes, and trying to remember where I packed the Tamsulosin so I could take a leak inside of 45 minutes--I see, in my reemergence, that the party of Lincoln is still, or rather more than ever, acting like the Bowery Boys.
Re-cabled, so to speak, by last night, I flopped on my unmade bed and turned on the "news" and was greeted by a video montage of immensely distressed GOP talkers and pols who seemed to be announcing the End Times and promising, somewhat redundantly, God's horrible wrath.
The sky wasn't just falling; it had done crashed supine, much as I had.
The Dead End Kids had transitioned with remarkable ease from brooding about President Obama's Bolshevik takeover of the globe's finest healthcare system to competing in a fresh verbal arms race: who could exaggerate most preposterously about the size of the ACA's tax--just as their party's leader and imminent presidential nominee was, through his spokesman Mortimer Snerd Eric Fehrnstrom, gainsaying the entire strategic assault.
So this latest hysteria may find that lingering is difficult. ObamaCare's architect, Mitt Romney, would much prefer that we all brood about something else--anything else, for heaven's sake. Just stop the blathering reminders of Romney's Bolshevik takeover of Boston General.
What's more, a CNN/ORC International poll reveals that "Despite howls of protest from many Republican leaders, only about one in five Americans--and only 35% of the Republican rank and file--say they are angry about the [Supreme Court] decision."
Thus the apocalypse may once again blow over, and soon. Stay alert, though, for another is surely on its way.
You didn't miss much. Much thought was given to the meaning of the Supreme Court ruling by the right towards rationalizing their victory and the blessed political opportunities this has generated for them. This, in turn, has generated a huge number of noise complaints from the residents of the cemeteries they've been whistling by. Many right wing pundits and politicians have been citing the poll generated statistics on the unpopularity of ACA by way of consoling themselves. And wicked old me has been doing drive bys to various right wing blogs to ask impertinent questions like: but don't many of those opposed to ACA think the biggest problem with it is that it didn't go far enough? And, my favorite, wasn't the opposition of many low information poll subjects founded on the belief that ACA was depriving them of a constitutional right? And what will happen when they find out that it didn't, and worse, what is actually in it.
This is really quite delicious. Romney desperately needs to have this issue fade, lest his culpability as a sire of ACA become a central campaign issue and the tea party types won't let this assault of their liberties be forgotten.
Posted by: Peter G | July 03, 2012 at 09:09 AM
@Peter G: Can we bring Romney onto The Jerry Springer Show and do a paternity test to prove he is the real father of Obamacare?
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | July 03, 2012 at 11:38 AM
Great idea, Robert -- and he can certainly afford the child support payments.
Posted by: Janicket | July 03, 2012 at 02:32 PM
Seriously, would not the Tea Partiers be right at home in the audience and on the stage?
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | July 03, 2012 at 03:23 PM
A brilliant idea Robert and I'm going to suggest that frequently in posts. With due credit to yourself for suggesting it, you wicked wicked, man. :)
Posted by: Peter G | July 04, 2012 at 09:13 AM