Suppose you have a race between a magnificent runner and a truly crippled plodder. There's no way to make it equal, so you start handicapping the better man. You throw everything you can at him, boulders in his path, slime on the path, anything to slow him down, you know, just to make the race even. But it's not working, so you have to do more. So you put the cripple in the Palin 2008 scooter and he begins to pull even, maybe just a tad bit ahead. Oh, no, the Palin scooter appears to have some real functional problems that are too obvious to ignore, so the cripple falls back. That damn magnificent runner is going to win the race, no matter what you do; people love him and believe in him and there's no way to stop him. So, okay, I guess the only thing left is to send somebody ahead to the trophy box and switch out the trophy real quick, so that when the magnificent runner finally gets there, he doesn't really win anything.
Suppose you have a race between a magnificent runner and a truly crippled plodder. There's no way to make it equal, so you start handicapping the better man. You throw everything you can at him, boulders in his path, slime on the path, anything to slow him down, you know, just to make the race even. But it's not working, so you have to do more. So you put the cripple in the Palin 2008 scooter and he begins to pull even, maybe just a tad bit ahead. Oh, no, the Palin scooter appears to have some real functional problems that are too obvious to ignore, so the cripple falls back. That damn magnificent runner is going to win the race, no matter what you do; people love him and believe in him and there's no way to stop him. So, okay, I guess the only thing left is to send somebody ahead to the trophy box and switch out the trophy real quick, so that when the magnificent runner finally gets there, he doesn't really win anything.
And that, my friends, is the story of the 2008 election. I knew all along that the powers that be wouldn't allow power to slip from their fingers, that there was no rotten dirty trick that they wouldn't pull, even though THEY were handicapped by having a truly uninspiring candidate. But I guess I really believed that ultimately, if Obama prevailed, we would have a chance at the fairness that we deserve. Yeah, maybe he'd have to work harder and be better than any candidate in the world, but, that's okay, because he's up to the task.
The emergency session that has so convinced Congress that these emergency measures MUST BE TAKEN, does not convince me of anything. They inform me that not being able to win the prize honestly, they are taking the ball and going home. They are demanding the money that would have funded so many programs in America that would have rescued us from this terrible economy and they're asking... no, demanding it to pay the same bastards that got the economy in this terrible mess. Not only that, but they're gutting the Constitutional protections of checks and balances by putting this enormous monetary power in the hands of the Treasury and making it NOT subject to review, not ever being able to be litigated in a court of law. This is NOT socialism, this is facism. And if you think this is a hyperbolic statement, you need to Google "Plot Against FDR" and see how once before a Bush, along with other business leaders, sought to overturn the government. Now, they don't have to do anything so dramatic and obvious. By stealth and cunning they are staging a bloodless coup, putting the power of this Country's economy in the hands of the executive branch with absolutely no oversight or control. They win either way.
So our magnificent runner has now been well and truly hobbled in the race. If he drags himself over the finish line, bruised and bloodied, the prize that they hand him will be a mop and a bucket to clean up their mess. And he will be vilified from day one if he can't do it.