Big
surprise. Despite record high
unemployment, a desultory economy, sky-high gas prices, and scary levels of
national debt Barack Obama was re-elected yesterday going away. Go figure.
Not only that, a number of far left Senate candidates were returned to
office and the Senate remains firmly in control of the Democrats.
Millions
of words will be written about this election and I have not read a single one
of them. Too discouraged. Let me spout off with a few thoughts and then
I’m done with politics.
My first reaction
is: What the Hell are the people who
voted for Obama thinking?! Clearly, for the majority of voters performance had
nothing to do with their vote. The first
clue for me should have been the popularity of Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift. Neither can sing worth a pinch of coon shit
yet they are the most popular singers out there. Likewise, the Kardashians. Why are they famous exactly?
During the
election Obama did appearances on John Stewart’s show, Letterman and with other
celebrities rather than interviews with serious news outlets. Famously, he had no time to meet with
Netanyahu when they were both in NY for the UN meetings but he did find time to
go on The View and smooze with the fawning blowhards that host that show. His handlers obviously knew which were the
important appearances to garner the votes.
This election reminded me of one giant playing of one of Jay Leno’s bits
called “Street Walking” where he asks basic third grade level questions of
people on the street. Natch, they
probably pick the dumbest ones but you are left shaking your head at the end of
the bit thinking, “My God, these people are eligible to vote!” Apparently they voted in large numbers last
Tuesday.
While that may
offer some amusement, the real issue is the changing demographics in the
US. Blacks voted 95% for Obama and
Hispanics were not far behind at 75%.
Women (inexplicably) went 55% for BHO.
(I guess free condoms are important after all.) Those groups are growing.
Romney’s candid comment that 47% of the people
would never vote for him because they receive direct benefit from the
government is, unfortunately, true. Many
receive food stamps, welfare, Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. Additionally, government employees are not
going to vote against the party promising bigger government. Nor are union workers, teachers, environmentalists, lobbyists and trial
lawyers who believe that the Democrats will keep the money flowing and some of
it will drift their way. A lot of people
don’t want less government spending no matter how irresponsible.
So
in a larger sense, Americans are voting themselves into the same hole enjoyed
by a number of European social democracies…. Bankruptcy. Apparently the metastasizing national debt
means nothing to the majority of voters.
Let the next generation worry about it.
Gas
prices and unemployment did not matter either apparently. The rogue EPA was of no concern to New York
and New Jersey voters who overwhelmingly elected BHO and Democrats. Many of those voters have been out of power
for a couple of weeks courtesy of Sandy.
Given four more years of Obama’s EPA when they get done with outlawing
fracking and shutting down all the coal fired electrical generating plants and
the lights go out in the North East for lack of capacity, maybe they will think
again.
The
Obama guys knew they could get away with blaming Bush even as the election
approached: “…Go back to the policies
that got us into this mess…” That massive lie was never refuted or even
attempted. Yes, it’s complicated but it
had to be addressed. Think about
it. The current recession is the fault
of the unprecedented prosperity we’ve enjoyed since the Reagan era? Or something else? Clue to my liberal friends: It’s the policies of easy money by the Fed
and lending money to people who could not pay it back.
This election
proved once again that negative campaigning works. Massive numbers of negative commercials in
key states early in the campaign painting Romney as a corporate raider and
greedy capitalist and that proved effective.
The first debate overcame some of the negative image but not enough.
The media played
its usual role in cheering on the Democrats and ignoring stories harmful to
Obama, particularly Benghazi. This is
malpractice but a fact of life. The
media and Hollywood wanted Obama and now they have him. Congrats.
After the euphoria
of the Obama supporters subsides the hard reality will set in. This election insures that ObamaCare will
survive and be implemented and the substantial tax increases and policies
associated with it will kick in. The
electorate will certainly not appreciate the result. Taxes are surely going up. The Republicans who still control the House
will not be able to resist the Democrats in their desire to impose a tax
increase on the “rich”. The only question
is how far down the income scale they deem the wealthy to be. Clue:
The Rich don’t have enough money to make a difference so the middle
class will get hit eventually. Creating
massive inflation is the only way to corral the runaway debt. I’m certain that’s the Democrat’s hope and
plan. Gee, this is going to be a lot of
fun.
Unemployment is
probably going to limp along. The young
people who voted for Obama better be prepared to live in their childhood
bedrooms for a few more years. Or maybe
for a long time.
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For a little extra amusement, you can see this reinterpretation of the debates. American Idol, indeed.
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For a little extra amusement, you can see this reinterpretation of the debates. American Idol, indeed.
