As the system on which our republic thrives – checks and balances – returns from exile, you can bet the ranch that those who have so abused dishing it out will be just as rabid about not taking it. Their new overseers will be demonized in meaner terms and in shriller tone than ever before and, in the process, conservatives will be accused of every malevolent intention from kicking old ladies' walkers out from under them to kicking the dog, when all they really want to do is kick the spending habit and kick deficits and borrowing back to their ridiculously frugal, austere pre-Obama levels.
| For the last four years the House has been dictatorially run by a hardliner hell-bent on pushing her fanatically socialist agenda at any cost... the ultimate cost to her party and especially to her own credibility and favorability was the lowest approval ratings and biggest "shellacking" in anyone's memory.
Yet, no paradigm shift can compare with the cost of the irreversible harm done to our nation during her selfish, agenda-driven tenure both before and after Obama inherited the mess she helped to create by breaking nearly every non-legislative promise she ever made, not the least of which was failure to
"drain the swamp" of leeches like Charlie Rangel. |
In reference to creating the underhanded method of cramming ObanbamaCare down the throats of a largely anti-government health care constituency Nancy Pelosi ranted...
"And I said well, we're going to pass it. And we're going to go up to the gate and we're going to push open the gate. And if the gate is locked, we're going to climb over the fence. And if the fence is too high, we're going to pole vault in. And if that doesn't work we're going to helicopter in. We're going to parachute in. But we're going to pass this obstacle."
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By comparison, the new Speaker of the House is a PR guy's dream – although, at this point, no one in John Boehner's party seems to have the preparedness or ability to capitalize on his best qualities while they are at their freshest. Good riddance to completely out-of-sync-with-the-sound-track flailing hand gestures that make the late Billy Mays look like a product consultant with a sophisticated Powerpoint presentation.
Boehner's humble, dulcet mid-western tone remains well-modulated and professionally non-emotional and, more importantly, non-confrontational. Even when the Speaker explains what the opposition would have you believe are the most controversial and radical elements of his party's intended accomplishments he offers the opposition no chance to seize on some hateful element of his presentation, as was a major formative factor of the electorate's opinion that Nancy Pelosi is not a nice person – at least not from a political standpoint.
Of course, with John Boehner, there's that crying thing that critics have been harping on. Even the conservative New York tabloids have been running front page headlines like Weeper of the House along with photos of Boehner dabbing at his moist eyes with a hankie.
What the PR guys need to realize is that the ability – proclivity – to shed a sincere tear is by far and away the Speaker's most saleable quality. It is even more appealing when you compare him with his predecessor. In the midst of an administration led by a hypocrite who could continue to portray the kind of aloof elitism he campaigned with if it weren't for those increasingly frequent moments when he amateurishly displays the reality of who he is with partisan, agenda-driven vitriolic attacks, a regular guy like Boehner is precisely what the shellackers ordered.
Not only does the Speaker's tearfulness take away Democrats' perceived exclusive hold on feelings-driven politics; not only does it take the term compassionate conservative to a higher plane; not only does it endear the Speaker to all of those new non-Democrat women (studies indicate that crying a bit is a turn-on to women) who have never seen anyone from their former political affiliation weep; not only does it make people who used to believe the first point until they started listening to liberals like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Alan Grayson, Anthony Weiner, and all of those edgy Hollywooders and MSNBC types...
...but it also makes people subconsciously return to the good old prosperous days when some of the most successful personalities were all about the shedding of tears. From Roy Orbison to Little Anthony to Bobby Vinton to Smokey Robinson to Bob Marley's Wailers crying men have always been a pretty hot ticket.
And in one of those teachable moments that Obamunists love to claim as their own, the Constitution was read shortly after the new Speaker took over. A passage was reserved for his predecessor who couldn't afford to turn her back on such a pro-American activity at this low-point of her career.
Poetic Justice was served.
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