Doing the Obama Hustle

The American Thinker ^ | August 07, 2009 | J. Robert Smith

[Scanian]

It's becoming clearer day by day. The President and Democrat leaders have been doing the Hustle. Not only hustling voters from the get-go, but hustling all year to push their statist legislative agenda through Congress. And, most often, they're attempting to do so in the still of the night.

Why? Because undemocratic Democrats understand better than they're given credit that a solid majority of Americans occupy the center-right. Democrats, especially party liberals, well appreciate that last November's election wasn't a resounding mandate, but, rather, a small window through which to squeeze massive leftwing measures.

Wasn't it the lighthearted Rahm Emanuel who said: "Never let a big crisis go to waste?" And, he might have added, if the crisis isn't big enough, gin it up.

As we are witnessing, the window is now closing on Democrats' fingers more rapidly than they could have suspected. Their blithe leader, Barak Obama, with a glance, a smile and a lot of helium-inflated rhetoric, was suppose to dazzle Americans -- dazzle them long enough to complete the stealthy process of transforming the nation into a reasonable replica of a European socialist state. Whether modern France or Russia (circa, 1950) is your call.

Now to finish the nation's transformation from red, white and blue to institutional gray, they may have to use a crowbar to pry open the window. The crowbar is also known as "reconciliation." ()

The Disco Democrats' mad rush to the finish line has produced some startling results. Co-opting the nation's financial and automotive sectors is no mean feat. Mussolini must be smiling from somewhere.

The absurdly named economic stimulus would be better coined "The Democrats' Pig Trough.") Didn't pig troughs get a bad rap when Republicans ran the show?

Cap and trade,

[livius]

Now to finish the nation's transformation from red, white and blue to institutional gray

That's a good image. That was always my mental image of the Soviet Union, as "institutional gray," gray in its buildings, its clothing and its daily life.