originally published 1/31/10
Too big to fail? First, the
world's largest automobile brand
went bankrupt. Now its heir
apparent, in spite of ever-gushing
media approval and the widest distribution of green
technology, is in jeopardy of a
major consumer revolt and subsequent
financial meltdown as a
result of a deadly
design flaw.
Too big to fail?
Coincidentally, a flawed accelerator
pedal is also responsible for the
meltdown of the largest political
brand in history. Consumers
are turning to competitors of the
Obama brand in large numbers in an
attempt to salvage what is left of
their financial and personal safety.
In the process, voters have begun to
shun the rushed, ill-conceived
manufacturing of a
larger-but-less-effective Prius
government. Consumers have
suddenly realized that their
familiar gasoline-fired capitalist
engines are being used to re-charge the
hybrid's electric
batteries; that
they are being co-opted to propel
the greenmobile down the Socialist
Freeway at top speed.
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Of course, this old
America-hater had nothing to do
with exposing Toyota's
deadly design flaws.
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A recall is what the consumers in
Massachusetts, New Jersey and
Virginia have voted for and, while
they may not choose to return to
brands of the past, they have
nonetheless expressed their overwhelming
desire to find a political
product that is both safe and
effective. For most, thinking
green is more about wondering
whether they will continue to have a
paycheck and much less about wondering how
soon all of those pie-in-the-sky green
jobs will be created.
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Suddenly, in an effort to overcome
its deadly no-star crash rating,
the Obama brand will be allowed to
stand for nuclear energy, deficit
reduction, spending curtailment,
terrorist treatment flexibility and
non-sanctioning of lawyers who OK'd
"torture".
Suddenly, after totally ignoring
non-Democrat legislators for a full
year, the Obama brand has embraced
bi-partisanship.