Make no mistake about this bickering, partisan atmosphere which has engulfed the political landscape in the United States of America – it is part of a larger plan.  The “attack” on liberalism has been no accident.  This was part of the larger plan which was spawned during the 1980’s under the guise of the “Reagan revolution.”  And, make no mistake about this either, “these guys are good.”  Whoever is behind this move for a “permanent republican ‘majority'” knows how to control the media – and, they FULLY understand the word PROPAGANDA!  They also understand the word PATIENCE.  They’ve been at this for over 30 years and were OH SO CLOSE until they screwed up and chose George W Bush as their “ringleader.”

As much as the progressives such as myself despised Bush (and Cheney) I’m convinced, at this point in time, that the financiers of this “republican revolution” – who choose to remain anonymous for all intents and purposes – despise Bush even more.  I’m guessing these people were among the cheerleaders, for example, when Bush/Cheney virtually destabilized the entire world by intruding into Iraq – only, they too expected the American troops to be “greeted as liberators.”  I’m guessing what they would have preferred to avoid was all the publicity surrounding the inhumane torture America became notorious for under the Bush/Cheney regime.  Additionally, I believe they just assumed that Bush/Cheney would have had at least a modicum of a post-Saddam strategy for keeping order in Iraq – something that would have appeared as if it was well thought out.  Something which would have headed off the barrage of books – both from “liberal” and “conservative” reporters all saying the same thing – the Iraq invasion was an incompetent, ill-advised, STUPID mess!

And, of course, whoever these people are, I don’t doubt for a minute they were in favor of the so-called “Bush taxcuts.”  I mean, it saved them TRILLIONS of dollars over the ensuing 10 years (well, it’ll be 10 years soon).  Also, I don’t think they were all that upset with ANY of the deregulation OR the MELTDOWN that followed.  It’s just the timing of it all.  I’m sure they feel Bush should have been able to put off the crash until a democrat had taken office – at least, as long as they had to “temporarily” give up the White House.  In fact, I believe they think to this day that had the “meltdown” come 6 months later, we’d be looking at a McCain/Palin administration – which would be even MORE MONEY for whoever these people are!

I don’t question that these people blame Bush’s incompetence on the FACT they couldn’t get Social Security “privatized.”  That would have created even a greater opportunity to FLEECE America than they had during the 2008 meltdown where they only had the non-social security funds to abscond with.  It’s still not clear in my mind if these people realize the American public isn’t going to fall for privatizing social security, or if they simply think it didn’t happen because Bush’s bumbling nature was becoming more readily apparent by the time he took on that endeavor.  However, despite his weaknesses, Bush did come through in some important ways for these people.

For example, despite the FACT Bush/Cheney was the result of a Supreme Court 5-4 decision these “unknown” people were still very concerned about the makeup of the court.  GW came through in a mighty way!  I really don’t think “Citizen’s United” (If your head’s been in the sand, that’s the recent Supreme Court 5-4 decision which has opened the “floodgates” to corporate money’s dominance of our future elections) would have made it without the STRONG RIGHT WING leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.  Both justices violated their pledge not to be “activist” judges in a decision that can only be described as the result of careful planning by – again – whoever is behind this push for the “permanent republican majority.”  (Can you even picture Sarah Palin in the White House?)  These guys knocked over 100 years of judicial precedence in one felled swoop – and, getting that decision overturned is going to be more difficult over time because of the very nature of the decision.  Come on now, do you think the large corporate board rooms are going to spend their money trying to overturn the decision which gives them extraordinary influence on the politics of this nation?  That’s like expecting our members of Congress to vote in term limits which would put themselves out of jobs.  It just aint gonna happen!

I honestly believe the part of all this that causes these “behind the scenes” people to despise Bush the most is the fact that his blundering led to a BLACK president.  And, one who is a formidable opponent.  Barrack Obama goes about his job completely different from Bush/Cheney (I put those names together because I was never certain who was really in charge).  For one thing, not only can Obama put a complete sentence together, he can give one heck of a good speech.  Also, he can do a press conference where the press actually asks him intelligent and relevent questions.  I’m not sure if the American public has picked up on this difference yet, but despite my differences with Obama, I find that just a bit refreshing.  A President with a high level of intelligence.  I realize Clinton had a high intellect, I just had issues with his personal behavior – which I agree has little to do with the job – unless you’re spending countless hours answering republican accusations. (most of them false)  So, Bush/Cheney opened the door to a Black president who might succeed – despite every effort these republicans and their “secret admirers” will “throw” his way in an effort to make sure he doesn’t – and, that – I believe – will be the lasting legacy of disgust these people put on Bush/Cheney.  Had they shown any level of competence at all, the republicans would have been in for good!

Just think of this.  President Obama has already nominated TWO Supreme Court justices.  Now, most people are thinking that the two he nominated will keep the court at its present right wing 5-4 majority.  But, just think where we’d be for the next 30 years had McCain/Palin prevailed.  You’d be at a 7-2 majority – which is what I believe all these republican “secret admirers” were counting on.  Most people have no idea what that would have meant for this country.  And, if Ruth Bader Ginsburg retires – that would have led to an 8-1 majority.  I guarantee you if a republican was in the White House, neither Elena Kagan nor Sonja Sotomayer would have been considered for a spot on the court.  We’d probably be looking at someone like David Addington or John Yoo!

Bush/Cheney were systematically politicizing the justice department during their administration – they just weren’t subtle enough with the process to get away with it sans negative publicity.  What they were counting on, however – and the democrats came through for them – was a weak democratic party.  The republicans have figured out how much more power they can wield by uniting like a bunch of thoughtless robots (and taking their directions from this invisible force I’m trying to get my mind around tonight) while the democrats squabble amongst themselves over how much corporate money they can take before it starts to look as if they are on the take like their right wing brethren.  The problem, as I see it, is that the democrats don’t “get” that they’re not very good at playing both sides of the fence.  I’m sure they spend moments watching these republicans in admiration as they take money from special interests in one hand and then proclaim they are against the same special interests with the other (of course, with their fingers crossed!)

All of this leaves us voters (at least the ones who are thinking along progressive – or LIBERAL lines) with an “issue.”  We know how bad Bush/Cheney were and that the arrogant republicans are still proposing the same CRAP that got us in this economic, militaristic, diplomatic, industrial, and on and on MESS that we’re presently stuck in.  We also are seeing more and more how many democratic lawmakers in the senate and the house of the Untited States of America are on the take.  OK, I know what you’re thinking – but, just for a moment, let’s not say that because all the republicans are bought and sold by the corporate special interests that means the democrats have to do the same to “keep up.”  In fact, the “tea party” idea of getting rid of ALL OF THEM is sounding better and better all the time.  However, the problem with that is the people the “tea party” (I was going to say “nut-jobs” here, but let’s just say I have a problem with all the racist rhetoric – and SIGNS – I’ve seen and heard from “tea partiers” – despite that I “get” their frustration) would replace them with – are even further to the right than these republicans who’ve already nearly sunken the ship.

Here’s the quandry – at least for me.  There’s a LOT I like about President Obama.  However, there’s some decisions he’s made which I believe are almost un-American.  For starters, he looked the other way from OBVIOUS, PROVABLE War Crimes – simply because they were authorized by our previous president and vice president and carried out by our CIA!  To me, THAT’S NO EXCUSE!  In fact, it’s my belief that when we start saying our leaders, who take an oath to defend the laws of the land, are above the laws of the land – we are in danger of losing our civilization as we know it.  That was a dangerous and UNACCEPTABLE precedent to take!  There are other decisions which have been “weak” – just as republicans would describe democrats – because the democrats can’t get it together to stand for something.  For example, regarding health care – 70+% of the population wanted a “robust public option,” – with 53% (or more by some polls) favoring a SINGLE PAYER insurance system and our democratic congress could come up with neither.  And, in the process, they turned off millions of would be “progressive” voters with their back-room antics.

I could go on, but the sad reality of all of this is it’s bound to lead to a lower turn out at the polls for the “progressives.”  There are more than myself saying, “why keep supporting these people when they’re going to do the bidding of their corporate masters anyway.”  And, I believe that is a legit complaint – despite the FACT that President Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel called people like myself “f___ing retards.”  That’s more a compliment I’d expect to come from someone like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, or Lars Larson, but I still take it with pride.  At some point Obama and his entourage will wake up and realize that they can’t win by turning off the people who voted for them.  THERE’S NOTHING THEY CAN DO TO GET THOSE RIGHT WING VOTES THEY’RE PANDERING FOR!  I really don’t see the likes of Limbaugh, Beck, Savage, or Larson joining the Obama “bandwagon” anytime soon.

Just as Osama bin Laden must have celebrated when Bush/Cheney chose to allow him and his followers to go free and to reconstitute themselves while the US was invading Iraq so must the republicans celebrate every time President Obama “throws” an overture their way.  Not only does it give them another opportunity to STIFF HIM but it gives them another opportunity to create dissention in the democratic ranks.  And, as a famous republican once said (I can’t remember his name right off the top of my head) “the fewer the number of American voters, the better chance for repulbican success.”  So based on that theory the Obama administration is playing right into the hands of the republicans.

The republican’s benefactors (those secret minions I’m struggling to identify) are out in great force these days.  “Citizen’s United” has opened the doors for a barrage of “swift boating” which will make what happened to John Kerry in 2004 look like child’s play.  And, the democrats will probably be trying to decide whether their best course of action is to solicit the available funds (and support) from the corporate “donors” themselves or to stand up like courageous leaders and put a stop to this deplorable, corrupt, course our government is on which has led to the two indefinite occupations in Iraq and Afganistan, the economic meltdown which we may or may not be recovering from, the reputation of a nation which tortures, a coastline bathed in oil while “right wingers” like Sarah Palin keep shouting “drill baby drill,” the reality of a globe with melting polar ice caps which we are apparently content watching melt, and a democratic president and democratic party which is dead set on creating an atmosphere of bipartisanship with people who should be thrown out of office. 

This all fits neatly into the “master plan” of the “right wing machine” which is dead set on that aforementioned “permanent republican majority.”  Yes, Bush/Cheney has set them back – but, they’ve got lots of money, and as I said earlier in this post – they’re very patient.  They’ve been after this for over thirty years for heaven’s sake!  The “minions” pushing  this permanent republican majority?  Take a look at the United States Chamber of Commerce!  I believe by looking there you might find a group of corporations who are willing to undermine the fabric of this nation to increase their bottom lines!  They have a HUGE investment in this last thirty years of corporate greed being accepted as “normal,” while they’ve been breaking unions, shipping jobs overseas, and making GIANT profits while paying NO TAXES!  Until we have an opposing party to the republicans willing to say ENOUGH ALREADY – and FIGHT BACK – matters will get worse.  As of now, it’s the democrats we’re depending on to “carry the torch,” but it’s really looking as if too many of them have succumbed to the money for this to happen.  All I can say is that it seems to me if the democrats don’t figure this out by Novemeber it might be too late.