Hot Talk and the “New” Washington

The battle of the titans which was either hatched or brewed from of none other places than the White House, more than simply demean the office of the President. It makes apparent the overly sensitive nature of the new brain trust in Washington. What did you expect? The new administration is filled with folks who are use to swimming in the Illinois political cesspool. The chief among the skin-challenged is the chief executive himself. It seems as if he has hung around the basketball court too long, and that every move has to prove something. This is a classic adolescent side effect of a man not sure of his own masculinity. It reeks of a street war mentality. How many folks could have imagined however, before the election of the “new tone” and “change” that candidate Obama promised, would amount to a head to head confrontation with a political talk show host?

Par for the course is it to exploit any daylight that these operatives see is their enemy’s weakness. It is their modus operandi. Seeking to position anyone who stands in their way as the ogre, the troll under the bridge or the boogey man that hides in your closet, the government has exacerbated a bad situation. This is not unusual, for these guys, but this is how they define change! It means tossing out old Washington style politics and installing Chicago style politics.

The result is instead of the welcome breath of fresh air a gigantic leap in reverse which has landed our policies and politics back in the 1930’s. The populous prefers the 1980’s or 1990’s frankly, to the decade of the depression. Who would Franklin Roosevelt have demonized? The only record we have to go on is his words, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Now there’s a change. The new group in D.C. is now the perpetrator of a “sky is falling” outlook and that around every corner lurks a crisis. When they are not finding one, they are creating one; hence, the distraction of the Limbaugh versus White House controversy.

If history is any guide, the scare tactics won’t work, and neither will a massive infusion of government into where it doesn’t belong; the marketplace and a wrestling match with talk-radio. In the latter case we all are a bit poorer, but that is going to be the likely result of the polices too.