By Barry Secrest

Conservative Refocus

In the ongoing "dark comedy" that is the current Governmental paradigm of considerable dysfunction, we are beginning now to wonder if manifest destiny has determined that each week must now be even more inspiring of increasing anti-depressant ingestion than the prior.  To illustrate, Republican "Savior" Senator Scott Brown came through "once again"--this time as the deciding vote on the Financial "Deform" Bill.  Unfortunately Brown sided with the Socialist Democrats yet again and voted yes for the 2,300 page monster bill that the Legislators, again, most likely failed to read.  After running on a Conservative platform, we naively wonder if perhaps Brown is but another RINO--if not worse.

Unfortunately, consensual disappointment in our elected officials has become so "de rigueur" that we are now nonplussed--at best--by any eventual outcome whether it be surprising or not--at least until November.  At any rate,  The Financial "Deform" Bill was indeed passed, which could have been great news, at least on one point,  for both Conservatives and the Country.  It could have meant that one of the largest problems of the financial meltdown, being the actions of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, would be forever reined in and corrected.

However, not so "again."

In fact, the two now Government-owned entities were not even mentioned in the legislation--not surprisingly.  Do I sound like Eeyore yet?  Meanwhile, there was also the fantastic news for Europe that the Euro has twittered up in value all of a sudden.  Alas....our problem in this case was that the US dollar ratcheted downward as the cause.  The dollar, along with the stock market, tanked.  The reason?  The Fed had indicated that the US may not satisfactorily recover for another 5 to 6 years in yet another case of "No We Can't."  One supposes that keeping an opinion such as that secret would have been out of the question?

Surprisingly, there was one bit of exciting news.  Apparently, a Civil Servant who works for The Bank Of Nigeria has contacted us and indicates that they are in need of a cultural Attache' in the US who will aid them in the import/export of goods along with their US banking endeavors.  This "promises" to pay extremely handsome dividends right away, so things may be looking up for America as we understand that this is happening all over the Continent!

This Is My Culpable; It Runneth Over

In other Mainstream Media unmentionables, the "Culpables-in-Chief," being the Obama Administration--in an apparent attempt to deflect attention away from an extremely racially biased Justice Department--have most recently come out in a veiled assault against the Tea Party.  First in the sequence of events, the President strongly denounced the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, for being racist in that they recruit and train Black Africans as suicide bombers without allowing them to reach positions of command within the organization.  So one must suppose that this organization would be OK in Obama's mind if they weren't racist and were allowed upward mobility within the organization?

Further, is being a terrorist and a racist worse than being just a terrorist?

The ultimate absurdity lies in the fact that accusing a terrorist of being a racist would be akin to accusing a murderer of being a bigot, or accusing an arsonist of being a vandal.  Degrees of worsening attributes of actions do not necessarily lend themselves to Individual concerns of lesser discretions.

Regardless, after ridiculously qualifying Al Qaeda as being racist, the second part of the mission of vilification began.

First Lady Michelle Obama a few days later, appeared at a meeting of the NAACP and made a speech in which she exclaimed that the NAACP members intensify their fight.  Against who?  Being our initial question--but the answer wasn't long in coming.  The following day, the NAACP, seemingly out of the blue, came out with a resolution strongly condemning the Tea Party for being Racists in that it encourages racist elements within its membership.  Coincidence?  I think not.  Further, they demanded that the Tea Party now expunge the racist elements or formally adopt them.

Quadrangled By Deceitfulness: Al Qaeda, The Tea Party, NAACP And The DOJ

So now after absurdly relegating Al Qaeda to being a racist organization, the Administration's apparatchiks have also vilified the Tea Party as being a racist organization.  Would this not, in some minds, equate the Tea Party with the abominable Al Qaeda, as both are accused of being racist at the same approximate time?  Or was this just a coincidence of sorts?  Perhaps it was simple happenstance, but if so, the timing was beyond impeccable.  Poetic Justice soon followed, however, as the back-lash against the NAACP was of such an intensity that the following day they "sort of" recanted by saying that the Tea Party was not of itself racist but rather "they just use racial epithets and issue bomb threats."  Oh, ok,  feeling much better now with that charming reversal.

The actual reason for the recant was most likely due to the fact that the NAACP, it has been discovered, was apparently operating a separate defense fund for the wrongly accused.  So what? you might say.  Well, apparently this NAACP defense fund was used to defend and eventually coerce the Department of Justice to drop all charges against the avowed, White-hating, "kill white babies" shouting Malik Shabazz  of  The New Black Panthers militant organization after he had been all but convicted of the crime of racially-based voter blocking and intimidation.

So the NAACP endorsed and defended a Black racist while accusing the Tea Party of racism while the US Department of Justice cheerily went along with the NAACP and Shabazz in dropping the case altogether just before the slam-dunk decision.   Therefore, meandering back up to where we began, the Obama Administration's seeming attempts at vilifying the Tea Party ended up vilifying the Obama Administration itself as well as the NAACP.  You just can't make this stuff up--and yet the Media continues its slumber.

The Department of Justice, meanwhile, is now being investigated even further with regard to its policy of only going after Whites in voter intimidation cases while one naively wonders if there is a White House connection here.

The Obama Drama

The one fact that we can all take from this is that, after observing the hyper-sensationalism of the continuing melodramatic spectacle that is the Obama Administration, we can all be ever more convinced of the one truth of all truths.  This is not an administration so much as it is a "reality-based TV drama on steroids" with, easily, the best ratings in the history of mankind.  The only problem being that the audience--and I do mean audience--must pay the price for each slip-up by the primary players.  This Melodrama seems to be a malodorous combination of Dallas meets Twilight meets West Wing with a little of "The Anti-Jeffersons" thrown in for good measure and a heavy dose of the X-Files flickering subliminally throughout.

Each week, the entire country sits on the edge of its seat wondering what in the world is going to happen next as the "dramatis personae" make their sweeping entrances and exits onto and off of the stage while being tensely observed by the entire world.

The first episode that really got things rolling was aptly titled "The Sting."  The story involved the Administration writing itself a check for nearly $1 trillion dollars for partial dispensation to its serfdoms (or lesser governments--those being states) in exchange for lesser obligations to these same states in the future.  Because most of the states were essentially broke, the Fed was able to carve out a sweetheart deal where, in return, its obligations to the states would be considerably less in the future and therefore the states would have to pay more in benefits to their citizens for various services.  The Administration then outrageously withheld the remaining $400 billion or so which had been intended to go to private industry for infrastructure and the like.

Nefarious Schemes, Afflictions And Dead White Guys

By being without any conventional over site, these funds, in a nefarious scheme, were to actually be used for anything at the Administration's pleasure, which was the brilliant part of the plan (this particular episode had to be a two or three-parter just to build up tension).  In upcoming episodes that will do smashingly, the smaller state governments  predictably run out of money again, the Fed at the direction of the Administration, offers the remaining $400 billion to be parceled out, but only on the condition that the states drop their healthcare lawsuits--or other such actions against the Fed--or no payola!  The audience meanwhile will be thoroughly exhausted and totally broke after these continued episodes eventually air.

All through these dramas the common thread of a theme will be two-fold. the first that the anti-hero has a spending problem.  Everyone knows it, he knows it, the audience knows it but the Man just cannot, under any circumstance, halt his extravagant spending on only the most useless and meaningless of items.

He will later come out in complete and total denial, like any true addict, and blame everyone and everything on his own affliction even while secretly thinking of his next unseemly purchase.  He will even call out his problem and vilify it, blame gambling meccas and the like, but he will be unable to cease his affliction of his own accord.

The second underlying theme will be that he has issues with the Historical Founders of the country due to their relationship between property ownership and slavery, even calling them "Dead White Guys" at times.  But this, among other issues, will continually infect each of his actions which seem always destined to run counter to the original intentions of the "Dead White Guys" and, therefore, the US Constitution.

Holy Smote Batman!

We have in one of the next episodes, titled "The Totalitarian," a masterpiece of knife-in the-back, back-door dealings which makes JR Ewing look like a freshly neutered Barney The Dinosaur.  In this episode the Administration lays the "Rube Goldberg" framework for gulping down 1/6 of the Nations economy in the form of healthcare while smoting those rich, greedy doctors--and ultimately their hapless patients--by limiting their pay and telling them what to do and when to do it.  This is a masterpiece of drama because all of the players are wealthy and need a serious comeuppance.  Boy do they ever get it!

Insurance companies,  pharmaceutical companies, huge hospitals--you name it--and they are given their due.  The viewers were treated to a spectacle of  sausage-making drama the likes of which has rarely been seen in or out of the Beltway.  The allegiances made and broken during this long episode made "Survivor" look like a "Thomas The Tank Engine " episode.

The really cool part of this episode, however, is the new control the Fed will have at the behest of the Administration.  Now any and everything may be couched under the auspices of costs controls, necessity and "individual need" at the determination of Bureaucrats, and no one is an exception.

But the next ongoing episode was a cataclysmic nail-biter of epic proportion!  In this particular one, a billion dollar deep-water Oil-Rig blows up under mysterious circumstances in the Gulf while later both the Fed and the Administration hem and haw around while conditions get increasingly worse and worse--never becoming truly involved.  This time the "bad guy" and special Guest Star is a rich  foreign oil Company and boy did they ever have it coming!

Politicians Startled By True Meaning of "Off Shore Drilling"

The Anti-hero of the Administration acts as if he is truly, gravely concerned outwardly but the audience gets to see him going on vacation after vacation, playing golf, basketball and just generally goofing off the entire time.  All of this while the viewers anger grew worse and worse which only charged the ratings higher and higher.

They saw the leading man doing things like blocking clean-up efforts, disdaining offered help from other countries, doing sea inspections, even delaying clean-ups while the audience clearly saw what our Anti-hero is up to but never knew precisely why.  We might then imagine an underlying issue at play, maybe he despises fossil fuels due to having seen a terrifying sea dinosaur movie when he was younger or wants cute little Golf carts to drive around everywhere due to a love of duffing, who knows?

Regardless, he tries his mightiest to halt the drilling, completely ruin the economy, and then take control of the entire area due to severe economic duress.  As the tension builds, however, he deftly deflects some of the anger centered on him over to the  Rich Oil Guy after his sneaky suggestion that the Rich Oil Guy go off and take a well-deserved break.  So Rich Oil Guy takes his break by playing on his yacht in Great Britain rather than tending to the disaster and ultimately gets fired from his post.  The audience went wild.

Later the Audience thunderously applauded when the Leading Man threatens the huge oil company with unthinkable horrors if they do not pay-up a $20 Billion sum to the "people in the Gulf."  But here again, our anti-hero puts his own man in charge of the funds, thereby, once again, gaining control of the situation by meting out funds to only those he deems fit and deserving and amping up his power even more while viewers suffer greater and greater damage at the anti-hero's antics to the point of his popularity dropping precipitously.

Awakenings

In a desperate need to increase those Summer ratings, a plot is hatched where the Fed outrageously sues a state for upholding the Fed's own laws.  This effort got the audience's righteous indignation seething.  The twist?  Well, the Fed sues the state for operating outside of the Constitution, ironically usurping the Fed's laws and being racially motivated while at the same time, dropping a suit that is clearly racially motivated and totally against the Constitution--even after the Fed usurps one right after another from both the states and the audience.

This got the audience boiling mad and the ratings increased through the proverbial roof yet again.

However, as this scheme was being hatched a new problem emerges for our anti-hero.  You see, as each of his actions gain power and riches for the Fed, the Audience was being further and further drained of riches and necessities.  Soon, the extravagance of his spending would require more than the Audience could supply and the Audience was so busy trying to feed the Anti-Heroes imaginary causes that they soon came to the realization that this was not truly a "reality-based" show but rather an ill-conceived, brilliantly contrived Fantasy that had absolutely nothing to do with reality.

These antithetical designs against Liberty are historically instigated for no other reason than to enrich and empower the "inflationary Egos" of Authoritarianism, along with a perpetual desire to remake any Free society via an edict of Fatwa within the loosened confines of a certain anti-revolutionary zeal.

The Quickening Begins

At this point of realizational epiphany, the Audience was reborn to become our Countrymen again rather than ingratiated and worthless viewers.  This has been an agonizingly slow journey for the American populace, as many have observed, but now both events and actions start to become "really interesting" as the tentative balance will soon be re-decided.

We are even now receiving news regarding the new legislation, that bank and credit card transactions of virtually anyone can be incrementally monitored.  We have news that the Government will now monitor body mass indexes of various individuals in order to ascertain whether they might be overweight and require "additional" attention.

There are now operational efforts to monitor and control returning Veterans, along with various politically opposed groups which are considered to be "militant" or dangerous to the current Regime.  The hand-writing is on the wall with regard to the future of true civil liberties and this writing cannot even begin to cover the plethora of details available.  Have the American people arrived too late to make a difference?

No, indeed, but the next six months, being shrouded in the mists of a multitude of swirling possibilities, may be the ones that decide the future of America as we know it.

If ever there were a time to become fully engaged IT IS NOW.

The preservation of the sacred fires of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

~ George Washington