Will the Left Stop Yelling?
November 11, 2008 at 11:22 am | In Politics | 2 CommentsI posted the following as a comment on the story “Silence to Be Deafening as Left Stops Yelling” on the Pajamas Media blog this morning. If you’d like to read the story, stick the following in your browser. (Um…the blog leans a bit to the right.)
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/silence-to-be-deafening-as-left-stops-yelling/2/
It seems that the right is so upset by the fact that the people chose a liberal—an intellectual, competent liberal at that—that conservatives resort to shrill attacks when they should be trying to redefine their ideology and helping to get the country back on track.
McCain got defeated because he threw out his principles and ran a campaign based on political expediency. Obama got elected because he represents an honest attempt to change the policies that got us into the horrid mess we’re in, and to change the viciously partisan atmosphere we’ve experienced for the past several years.
Obama is not perfect. He will be chided when he makes a mistake, as will the Congress. But one of the things he hopes to do is to put aside the shrill attacks your post decries (with equally shrill sarcasm), and which conservatives have launched on anybody who disagrees with them. I hope he will succeed.
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Well, you certainly have a consistent opinion. It’s no secret we differ greatly. I can only hope that the disaster I see in having both Houses and the Executive controlled by the extreme Left will not come to pass.
It will be interesting to see what The Media does, and how long the love affair with Obama lasts. Some have already admitted that they could have dug deeper into who Obama is. Too late now.
One parting (shot) question: Did your parents caution you about who you associated with? Mine did. They didn’t want my potential successes jeopardized by who I chose as friends and associates. I’d better stop with that.
Comment by hoarsepucky — November 13, 2008 #
Consistent opinions? Yup: I’m no flip-flopper!
Only if you think anybody to the left of Bill Orally is an extreme liberal can you say that the Congress is controlled by extreme liberals. In fact most members are fairly centrist, and most upcoming issues are far too complext to be defined in such terms anyway.
The next four years will be taken up by an effort to get out of the swamp the Republicans, in part by kowtowing to Bush, have gotten us into. If the effort is to succeeed it must be a cooperative effort. “We’re not Democrats or Republicans, we’re Americans!” Who was it who said (approximately) that?
That said, I agree that we ought not, usually, to have a strong majority in the Congress with an executive of the same party. Unfortunately, the Republican party came apart at the seams because people simply would not put up with the way it was operating and governing, so many Republicans were replaced.
We’ll get the chance, in two years, to put some more Republicans in office. If the Congress doesn’t do what it ought, and if the Republicans reconsitute themselves, we probably will.
Your parents may have cautioned you about who you associated with, Hoarsepucky, but judging from your political bedfellows their cautions were ignored!
Comment by The Curmudgeon — November 14, 2008 #