03.30
Did You Miss the Swap Out?
Man, if you are a freedom loving American these days you just have to shake your head and stare sometimes. Some days it just feels like it’s coming at you from all sides. But, you know, there’s just something really odd about some of the things going on right now. It’s not just the whole, racing down the road to socialism, thing. There has apparently been a little slight of hand going on at the top of the political playing field, and it seems that not a lot of people are noticing it. I’m talking about this article on the district 20 race going on in New York right now between Jim Tedisco and Scott Murphy. The article explores an issue that I’ve only heard Rush mention before – how the Democrats have now become the big money party and the Republicans have morphed into fighting for the little guy.
The stereotypes we’ve grown up with in American politics just aren’t playing by the rules any more. We all grew up knowing that the Democrat party was fighting for the little guy, and the Republicans were the party of big money and big business. Republicans always outpaced Democrats in campaign donations because of their corporate, big business donors. And usually by a large margin. Things are oh so different now. Obama obliterated McCain in campaign money. And don’t fake yourself into believing it was all coming from small $20 little guy contributions. No, it was coming from Wall Street, Labour Unions, Energy, Foreign, etc. You name it, he got it. I already mentioned before how the top two recipients in congress of Wall Street donations are both Democrats.
And this is on display nowhere better than in the New York D20 race:
The special election in New York Congressional District 20 has emphasized a strange political irony.
The Democrats, who for decades have run a class warfare strategy of attacking Republican Wall Street fat cats, have nominated the very personification of what they have been saying is the worst America has to offer.
Scott Murphy(D) is a wealthy Wall Street mortgage banker who paid himself and his executives big bonuses, and he has outsourced jobs to India and lived a life of wealth and privilege.
By contrast, his opponent, Jim Tedisco(R), is a former school teacher and a Republican.
This really was inevitable though. Politics, as it is today, requires money. And you can’t get lots of money by appealing to the little guy. What you have to do is say the right things, then blackmail the right fat cats. This is exactly what the Democrats have constructed. A party that promises Joe the coal miner that they want to take care of all his needs, then go in the back room and blackmail his boss by threatening him with Cap and Trade. Joe probably loses his job in that deal, but he thinks his boss is evil and the Democrats still love him. Of course, it’s a willing media that makes this all possible to cover up, but eventually the truth will find it’s way out into the light of day. You can’t live a split personality forever. In the mean time we’ll just have to live in the twilight zone.
