As the sun blazes above a dusty street, four lone figures face each other with hands twitching nervously, just waiting for someone to flinch. Two on each side, they all, with beady cold
stares, sneer at one another throwing polite insults across the expanse between
them. Each try to goad their counterparts
into making a fatal mistake, and the clock on the ole’ town hall clicks
dangerously toward the climax, as the crowd surrounding them hold their breath. Unwilling to back down, all of them know that
in just a moment guns will blaze leaving bodies slumped in the aftermath. One-by-one the bells sound and soon one side
or the other must stand up to the showdown or step aside in shameful cowardice.
An old-time western? Nah, it’s
tomorrow’s opening session of congress!
The President has made it very clear that he’s not going to back down
on any of his agenda. He will either
have his way, or he will abuse his executive powers to get it. And as for compromise, it's doubtful his ego could ever endure it. So, while the
American people have voiced their desired direction – which curiously hints at sending this administration out the back door on a rail – the new congress doesn't
take office until the first part of January, leaving a long few weeks for Reid and Obama to stir up mischief.
Of course, this still depends on the Republicans resolve to resist, and
that’s something ever lacking when balanced against offending the public’s tender
sensibilities. So for the sake of
staving off any offense to the uninformed, they usually cave on
anything smacking of populism. And you
must admit, the Democrats do spin a popular message. Just hold out your hand, and they’ll give you
a handout … trying desperately to hide the fact that at some point, somebody
has to pay for it. Recently the rising
costs of Obama’s policies have shown clearly who’s going to pony-up, and that’s
exactly why the electoral wave crashed as it did.
None-the-less, if the Republicans do clarify their message
and calcify their vertebrae, it may have a rather interesting effect on
congress as a whole. Nobody, except possibly
Bob Beckel, Juan Williams and the entire MSNBC (pseudo) news corps, is
oblivious to the message sent last week.
The public is not amused with Washington, and the balance of power was
decidedly set into more rubicund hands.
Thus, any who dare to hang with the President may well hang again in November of
2016! And that premonition alone could sway congress during
this lame duck session. Granted, there
are those who have already been ousted, and as Dick Morris pointed out in a
recent editorial, have nothing to lose by voting from the far left. But even then, if they wish to return home
with any sort of political future, they will still have to temper their ideals, or explain themselves to their rather unsympathetic constituents.
So Obama may not have full support toward pulling off his
threats, with the hope that the whole oligarchy has taken careful note of what
we expect, and that it’s high-time to remove the uber-left’s grasp on the nation’s
jugular. While there are plenty of us
who wish the political winds would suddenly surge from the far right, the truth
is, most Americans prefer a gentle breeze down the center. Either way, what they don’t want is
the gale-force blue typhoon to which we've been subjected for the past six years.
Generally Americans are not extremists.
They will tolerate strong opinions about who’s on target for the Super Bowl
or whether “blade runner” Pistorious got off to easy, but still want politics
and religion to stay quietly underscored.
And while they love the idea of helping the disadvantaged, they won’t accept
becoming disadvantaged to do it.
Obamacare, alien amnesty, IRS bullies, ACORN offshoots and a laundry
list of scandalous civil servants have infuriated them to the point where they
really are throwing out anyone connected with the President. Which calls to the Democrats remaining in
office, “Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin!” Loosely
translated, if they choose to give Obama and Reid that last gasp of power prior
to the new congress, during the next election cycle they will likely join the most
recent flock of unemployed legislators.
Of course, that too depends upon if the Republicans heed the call. If they don’t stand firm and stay in this proverbial
Hadleyville, We the People will toss them aside too for more purposeful legislators.
Either way, it won’t be too long before
we figure out whether John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are any measure of Gary
Cooper.
