Rush and the Dreaded Gridlock Option
By Bob Patterson
Created May 9 2008 - 3:35pm
Rush Limbaugh has befuddled the mainstream media with his Operation Chaos
and he is (as heard on the opening of his program for Friday May 9, 2008)
having more fun than a wealthy cowboy on a Saturday night in a Nevada
brothel.
Rush explained his game plan to the bamboozled media by saying that he
wants
complete and utter chaos for the Democrat Party. Rush fed them the
information that el Rushbo wants the Democrats to have consternation reign
supreme until the Democratic National Convention in August.
Journalists, who envy Rush's earning power and influence, have jumped to
the
assumption that he meant exactly what he said. If Rush wants utter chaos
did
it ever occur to them that he might not mean exactly what he says?
The paid pundits are supposed to provide their readers with an *****sment
of
the most likely scenarios that could happen and, on a slow news day, some
of
the less likely possibilities. So do they see the possibility that if Rush
means exactly what he says, then maybe he and some of his wealthy
conservative pals could bankroll a third party run by Hillary? Are the
talking heads running a ditto machine for Republican Talking points or are
they thinking things through?
(Some wealthy folks call a million dollar "chump change.')
If Hillary does a Ross P*****, things could get very chaotic.
Rush would urge his dittoheads to circulate petitions to get Hillary on
the
ballot as a third party candidate and then urge folks to vote for her in
November. Remember he has said he doesn't like McCain, so if no one
candidate gets enough electoral college votes to win the election, what
happens then? The House of Representatives selects the new President. Is
that the lame duck House or the newly elected lineup? If it is the lame
duck
House that does the work, then what happens if they don't select a clear
winner by Inauguration Day? Do you suppose that the current occupant of
the
White House could be persuaded to remain in office beyond Inauguration Day
until the new President has been selected? If it last beyond Inauguration
Day, does the new House just sit around while the old House selects the
new
President?
Wouldn't the Supreme Court stand by to settle any disputes? (Gee, which
candidate would they favor?)
At that point, Operation Chaos would have succeeded beyond most people's
wildest expectations (with a few notable exceptions [such as Karl Rove?]
and
a blogger or two, who, like Col. Kurtz (Marlin Brando) in "Apocalypse
Now,"
are "really out there.").
Why would Senator Clinton agree to sabotage the Democrat Party like that?
Could she subscribe to the "So?" philosophy that is running rampant these
days?
If Rush gets Operation Chaos going "full speed ahead," then bloggers could
join in the spirit of things by injecting a totally irrelevant item into
the
middle of a column lamenting the fact that folks who died fighting for
Democracy in World War II, might feel a bit cheated by seeing the voting
process subverted for fascistic reasons.
[Why is it that Hillary can get folks to donate to a lost cause and a
sincere blogger can't get a source for Ford Cobra replicas [1] to lend him
one of their vehicles for a few weeks of blogging and opinion-gathering?]
While Senator Clinton and Rush collaborate on subverting Democracy (in the
name of racism), some folks (called mainstream media) seem fixated on
useless information [2].
The thought that some highly paid professional journalists permit
themselves
to be sidetracked by the Reverend Wright "red herring," and leave it to
bloggers to give America a heads-up about the horrible implications of
Operation Chaos is sickening.
What good will a flag lapel pin do you if George W. Bush is still
President
(while Congress wrangles over electoral college matters) on the day after
Inauguration Day? Did the Germans ever get to vote on changing from a
democracy to a chancellor-for-life?
Some years ago attempts were made to engage Hunter S. Thompson into
betting
on a third term for George W. Bush. Since Hunter has gone to the great
press
room in the sky, being able to say "I tried to warn you" will be a very
ferric victory, if it comes to that.
Write to someone (public editor at the New York Times?) and demand real
analysis and not recycled Republican talking points.
Aren't the ground rules for Operation Chaos the same as the rules for a
knife fight? I.e. there are no rules!
The selection of the Democratic Party nominee is approaching gridlock. The
Congress has been very unsuccessful in taking back the power to wage war
from the President. It isn't difficult to imagine that letting President
George W. Bush's term in office "go into extra innings," while Congress
deals with a gridlocked electoral college solution next February, will be
an
appealing alternative for some well known conservative talk show hosts.
If the 2008 Presidential Election unfolds in this manner, expect to see a
great many more columns here about s****ts car races, beatnik travels, and
photography because if electoral college gridlock occurs, strict press
censor****p won't be that much more of a stretch for the dittoheads.
Col. Kurtz said it best: "It's impossible for words to describe what is
necessary to those who do not know what horror means." Ditto for those who
do not ken what "chaos" means.
Conflicted? The disk jockey wants to play the Frank Zappa and the Mothers
of
Invention song "Take Off Your Clothes When You Dance" song for Mother's
Day,
but he also wants to note that Eddie Arnold passed away this week and play
one of his songs. Earlier in the week, the disk jockey came across the
information that on Eddie Arnold's last album one of the folks who got a
song writing credit was Audie Murphy. Murphy won the Medal of Honor in
World
War II, became a leading actor, and wrote some country songs.
At press time the WLJ fact checker was still working on the name of the
song
(or songs) which Murphy helped write. Unfortunately the WLJ home office
doesn't have a Research Department as big and efficient as the one Playboy
does. (They not only have a research department, it is prominently
featured
in a new book [3].) You do the best you can with whatcha got.
The disk jockey will play the aforementioned Zappa song and (just for
Senator Clinton) Eddie Arnold's "Shame On You."
We'll dance our way out of here. Have a gridlock free week
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"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their
spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their
government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are
suffering deeply in spirit,
and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public
debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have
patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an op****tunity of winning
back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are
at
stake."
-Thomas Jefferson
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