The Nigh Seen Creeder

Random ruminations on the events of 4 November 2008:

● For all the B. Hussein Obama-inspired ""Kumbaya" crap that's been a topic of conversation in the mainstream media today, America remains a deeply divided country. Obama bested McCain by about the same margin that Bill Clinton bested George H.W. Bush in '92. As pissed as the electorate was in the last few weeks of the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama should've won by at least - at least - ten points.

● If the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac house of cards, which was primarily constructed by Democrats ("I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing." -- Rep. Barney Frank, 2003), hadn't fallen just weeks before this year's election, the results would've been remarkably different. That's not to say that McCain would've won ... but folks would not have gone to bed knowing who won.

●The results of the 2008 election should not be interpreted as a mandate for Obama's redistributionist schemes. First of all, the 2008 election will be remembered as an election in which voters negatively-passed judgement on the failures of the Bush Administration (some of which were real, and some of which were merely perceived and stoked by a dishonest media). Here's something for Obamaniacs to digest before they go convincing themselves that Americans are four-square in favor of their country becoming a European-style welfare state:

By 60%-20%, Americans believe lower taxes, not higher government spending, will best ensure economic recovery, according to a new Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll.

By 86%-9%, Americans believe government should focus on jobs and economic growth over income redistribution, according to a New Models/Winston Group survey.

● Democrats have a history of overreaching after winning "big" elections. For example:

The Watergate liberals of '74 not only doomed Jimmy Carter's presidency from the outset, they helped usher in Ronald Reagan's landslide election in 1980, Kemp-Roth, "Morning in America," and all that.

Bill Clinton's coterie of liberal wonks and wunderkinds convinced him to embark on a crusade to end the military's ban on gays in the military as his first order of business. Strike one. Clinton then abandoned his pledge to cut taxes for the middle class and proposed the largest tax increase in U.S. History, which passed with nary a single Republican vote. Strike two. Then he stood before Congress and brandished a silver pen and said that his wife's complicated, convoluted health-care scheme must pass lest the entire Republic perish. Strike three. (There were additional strikes when he held up traffic at LAX while he got a high-dollar haircut on Air Force One; and then his hell-bent desire to appoint a female Attorney General resulted in Zoë Baird-gate and freakin' Janet Reno.) Result? A dozen or so center-right Democrats in Congress switched parties in '93, and in '94 ... any politically-savvy sort knows what happened in 1994.

● "Fairness Doctrine." Obama was quoted in Monday's Wall Street Journal as saying that he would not pursue a re-institution of the Fairness Doctrine as president. His colleagues in Congress ain't singin' from the same choir book. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY/Television) are both on recent record saying that a debate on the Fairness Doctrine will be a first order of business come January 2009. If Obama does not come out against the Fairness Doctrine, or if he feigns indifference, he's not gonna be a happy camper when he goes to bed on Election Night 2010.

You know, I almost fuckin' dare Congressional Democrats to try to bring back the Fairness Doctrine. If the Dems want to get the center-right majority of this nation all kinds of riled-up, they'll start chirpin' 'bout how the one media entity (AM radio) that's not completely controlled by left-wing shipdits needs to, by law, sing mandated songs of praise to B. Hussein Obama, aka The Messiah, and his allies in Congress. Again, I fuckin' dare 'em.

The Dems ran hundreds of ads in '94 calling the Republican Contract with America "crazy" ... and they got their asses soundly beat. Imagine what will happen if the Dems call the folks who listen to AM radio and who oppose the Fairness Doctrine "crazy."