Conservative Refocus

As the political tide continues its arc into a more perfect Conservative solution, the words which are being brandished by those on the Left, and even within the Media, have taken on a nearly somber tone.  The Democrats seem to be sounding more and more like Republicans, while more and more moderate Republicans are sounding like Conservatives as each day passes.  Even while many staunch Liberals are now sounding their shrill media alarms as if a final collision with brutal reality is imminent--and it is.  The Media around the Globe have begun expressing their dismay at a US Presidency which has seemingly run its course as being now spent and ineffective at best.

The Bush tax cuts have fallen under heavy political scrutiny as most "outer beltway Americans" now know what will most likely occur should those tax breaks be allowed to sunset and tax rates again soar.  A double-dip recession with sprinkles on top would be the "best" that we could actually hope for in a world of incrementally dimming economic hopes.

In fact, the simple truth is that many Economists are not even certain that a continuance of the Bush tax cuts will actually be enough to jolt the economy into a consistent job producing mode.  And yet, we now have word of a Democratic Party mutiny against Obama as it regards these tax cuts, which the Media comically refers to as a tax cut for those who are "the rich."

A Mutiny for The Bounty

Thirty-one members of the Democratic Party have signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi wisely urging that the Bush tax cuts must be continued across the board, as opposed to a Presidential cherry-picking of those who should receive the cuts according to Obama's Messianic judgment.  While we applaud these so called "Rebel Democrats," we cannot help but wonder if this stampede back to the center would be happening if not for the upcoming elections.

It appears that what we, the civil society of Americans, have long known concerning the quantum shift currently happening in America,  is only now beginning to be recognized by the self-absorbed Democrats. This sudden realization by these Liberals seems to speak to a particular fact that many Americans have not yet recognized, that being, either the Democrats are painfully imbecilic or even worse, tragically disingenuous as it regards their constituents.

All of this while we all now pragmatically survey the effects of this, our longest ever season of  never-ending anti-Capitalism.  Many are now surmising that the Liberal Democratic agenda, which we have been suffering through, has actually crippled our economy even worse than the financial meltdown of two years ago--a fact that we have maintained for about the last 12 months.  What the "Messianic Economic Troupe" increasingly fails to understand is that a large part of what runs a successful economy is the "feel good" factor of its denizens, otherwise known as the "Consumer confidence level," which has been running at historic lows.

Admiring a Shining Play-Thingy on a Hill

In fact, the collective "feeling" of an economy's inhabitants can be just as important, if not more so, than the pushing of buttons, pulling of levers and manipulations of quantity that the liberally avowed Keynesian economists have been touting for so long.  While we try to our best to view and understand what it is that America's Government is trying to accomplish with their seemingly clever manipulation of our vast financial network,  we more often than not are reminded of a toddler seated in front of a vast, colorful control panel.  The child obliviously playing with the multicolored levers, switches and shiny buttons has not the foggiest notion of what he or she is actually accomplishing, if anything, and who cares?  It's just fun!--to them.

And yet, when we survey the scenic debris trail of our disastrous economy, which virtually everyone wishes to look away from after only a fleeting glance at the grotesque, we can seen a glimmer of hope, a small bit of light that refuses to be extinguished.  This ray of hope lies solely within the fact that we can thank both God and the stars above that 2010, and not next year, will be "our time" of  renewing elections.  Can anyone actually imagine the economic carnage which we would be facing if all remained "as is" for another whole year in America?  This is the question which many Independents and even a number of Democrats should be asking themselves as November looms around the corner.

The President, perhaps knowing that his fallacious mandate has been wasted on a fruitless and damaging ideological binge,  has of late, embarked on a tour of attack against anything or anyone who either appears Republican, Conservative or even Independent and has a countering opinion to his own.  This even while defiantly maintaining a defense which appears more like Custer's Last Stand than a clever argument refuting deterrence-- if there actually is one.

When 'The One" Turns Out to Be the Worst Migraine You Ever Had

All the while the battered Officers of the President's Academian Brigade appear to be increasingly resigning their positions and bloodily limping back to the comfort of their ivoried towers, resuming their days of intellectual exercise rather than the brusque and telling pace of Executive action or paralyzed inaction--take your pick.  What we now know is that the inaction seems to have fallen on the side of actually improving American's lives and and the action has been a design on extinguishing Liberties while massively growing the size and scope of Government, this can no longer be ascribed as the passive by-product of a wounded economy.

The world, indeed, the Academians have now found, is a different place when a massed aggregate of misplaced decisions can bring  pain and suffering and even poverty onto those whom have blindly placed their trust on the illusion of good will and professorial knowledge that yields less than nothing.  This unfortunate fact can be seen in the faltering America which we all seem now to find ourselves in.  Many of both the President's and the Democrat's adherents appear confused, even dismayed, that "The One" turned out to be just "Another One" as we all now suffer through the ramifications of a singular bias against Free Market Capitalism where a painful conclusion had long been foretold, if only they had listened in earnest.

The Speaker of the House has virtually if not satsifyingly disappeared, knowing also that her time has been measured and found wanting, even while her Senate colleague appears beyond haggard and exhausted from trying to defend and indefensible position.

Critical Blaming Skills

The "soon to be" Majority Party of Republicans, in current latent power, although many having fought a brave and bruising battle, are also suffering the haunting effects of their own ideological shortcomings.  The Elites among them having been found out--and to them belongs an even newer battle with an uprise of  powerfully mandated Tea Party Members who are publicly sworn, in fidelity, to the Charters of Freedom.  The many Republicans who might count themselves among the elite, being crafty and seasoned, now think to peruse and eventually turn these newest Constitutionally bred Tea Party members onto a course which might continue the Republican's faltering dominion.

The President, seeing his precarious positioning, knows only to fall back on his oldest and most worn trick-- that being a Keynesian inspired infrastructure stimulus, yet again.  Arrogantly showing off a severe and yet sincere, even proud, lack of imagination and critical thinking skills, relentlessly dredging up item after item of impotent corrections.  The President's answers think only to increase an already staggering National debt and a monetary promise to other Nations in the form of the sale of more Treasury bonds, which even the President's  own Secretary of State has denounced as being "damaging" to our national security. The President, meanwhile, continues  stubbornly insisting that a corner is being turned despite foreclosures having  reached their highest point in our history.

Giving Us the Thoroughly Immoderate Willies

The subsection of Civil Society Moderates, seeing their once proud and popular leader unmasked and faltering in his limited judgment, can only shake their heads and hope that something positive might happen to curtail the menace of failure.  A failure that promises to eventually drag the severely immoderate President down under a stealthy riptide of recognition  borne of his actions.

All of this while a Congress of the Nation's Democratic leaders have only proven themselves to be a morass of followers adept at suspending common sense, while being either unwilling or unable to provide their own brand of independence and leadership.  Piously, these hapless Lieutenants of Quasi-Socialism have followed their Messianic leader, along with an entire force marched Country, onto a narrow and harrowing redistribution trail which winds precariously over the verges of an economic chasm which need not have been.

This is where America has now found itself after two of the longest years that many of us can remember.

The resultant confusion as a result of the seemingly conflicted poll data, in many cases, coupled with both primary and voting irregularities that many "experts" simply did not foresee, has the Old-Guard of both Conservatives and Liberals within the Media wondering exactly "what in the world is going on?"  Some have even embarked on an effort to attack those who exactingly represent the ideals that they, themselves,  actually stand for.  Christine O'Donnell has been attacked from members of both the right and the left, while being vilified incessantly.  The charges leveled against her, approaching such a level of inane ridiculosity, that we would be non-plussed if told that she had maneuvered an iceberg in front of an approaching Titanic.  These reactions by various politicos and pundits are not entirely unusual.  When such individuals are  faced with the mystery and sometimes even terror of unfamiliar territory, as we now find ourselves in, they can often react in bizarre, even counter-productive ways.

When Every Action Results in an Equal and Opposite Scream of Defiance

The entire landscape has changed, and many, if not most, are bewildered beyond their capacity for understanding the atypical when everything is incorrectly assumed to be fairly typical.  But things are not at all "typical" in America right now, and the political nature of America itself must react--every action in politics, as in nature, produces an equal and opposite reaction.

This phenomenon of a confused, indeed, hysterical response can most easily be likened to the old theoretical political equations being inoperative or dysfunctional, as of now.  The old standards that many had relied upon can no longer be used, which is because of a quantum shift having occurred in our spectrum of political ideologies --a reaction to a severe shift in our Governance.  This quantum shift is, once again, a natural reaction to an imbalance that exists within our "political environment."

Within this quantum shift, The Energy that we have seen displayed has seemingly been multiplied by the masses, We the People, who have now reached a swift awareness of what is being done within our time, our age in this time of our Country, the tipping point having been finally reached and recognized.  The resultant invigorated energy multiplied by these masses has then been multiplied yet again, a speed of awareness culminated. The environment around each individual continually undergoing severe alterations which are massively unfavorable and only promises to get worse as time moves forward.

The people then cast about, in search of the one thing that has changed their lives, the one catalyst that can be found which is producing a pronounced ill-effect within their lives, their families, their workplaces  and they need not look far --at all --to find where this massive and negative change emanates.

This "change"  which has been shouted from every venue from day one can easily be found--and they, the people,  now tragically understand that all change is not neccessarily a good thing.

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"~Barack Obama

Barry Secrest