Posted on 03/14/2015 9:09:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A while back I observed the contrast between the modern leftists’ self-image and the actual political reality of the policies they support.
[T]he media and Hollywood types have always convinced themselves, as George Lucas did, that their villains were metaphors for George W. Bush or a cautionary tale about the evils of the right. But here we are, the Old Republic is being dissolved, and it’s their hero who is doing it. They find themselves on the side of the Empire.
In effect, they have become the Party of Palpatine. You never thought that a fictional dictator, such as the emperor from the Star Wars franchise, could gain and hold power all on his own, did you? He would need the support of ambitious bureaucrats, he would need slavish hacks running interference for him in the press—an army of Lois Lerners and David Brocks, respectively—and he would need a political party that rationalizes ever-expanding, unilateral executive power. The Democrats have become such a party.
We got another big reminder of this over the past week, when Democrats basically decided that Palpatine was right to dissolve the Senate, because those squabbling legislators just get in the way of the emperor’s wise plans.
Hence the hysterical overreaction to an open letter signed by 47 Republican senators, led by Tom Cotton, warning Iran that the deal President Obama is negotiating with them will have no legal force because Obama hasn’t bothered to consult with the Senate or seek its approval for any part of it....
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
The republic is dead. A lot of people don’t seem to realize it, but the whole government is rogue now.
The congress dissolved itself a while back, but it has yet to even realize it.
better image would be Palpatine who was evil to the core. Darth Vader redeemed himself somewhat toward the end in the Revenge of the Jedi.
So this is how liberty dies, to thunderous applause...
“......But how will the Emperor maintain control?”
Am I the only one who things Harry Reid with his dark glasses looks like Dr. Strangelove?
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