Why Democrats Should Start To Sweat by Daniel Henninger

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If you're an elected Democrat anywhere to the right of Barney Frank, and trying to defend a competitive seat next November, you've got to be starting to sweat.

You wake up in the morning and just like every other morning as far as the eye can see the only thing in the news is the president's health-care reform. It's starting to look like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are leading the Donner Party, the snowbound emigrants who bogged down in the Sierra Nevada winter in the 1840s and resorted to cannibalism to survive.

The betting is that with raw political muscle and procedural magic, the Congressional Democrats will pass something, call it reform and hand Barack Obama a "victory." Maybe, but I think what we are seeing with this massive legislation is that the Democrats in Washington have a bigger problem: Their party is looking so yesterday.
In a world defined by nearly 100,000 iPhone apps, a world of seemingly limitless, self-defined choice, the Democrats are pushing the biggest, fattest, one-size-fits all legislation since 1965. And they brag this will complete the dream Franklin D. Roosevelt had in 1939.

The culture still believes the U.S. has a hipster for president. But the Obama health-care bill, and maybe this whole administration, is starting to look totally out of sync with the new zeitgeist, the spirit of the age.
Everything about the health-care exercise is looking very old hat, starting with the old guys working on it. Max Baucus, Patrick Leahy, Pete Stark-all were elected to Congress in the 1970s, and live on as the immortals in Washington's Forever Land. But it's more than the fact that Congress looks old. The health-care bill is big, complex, incomprehensible and coercive-all the things people hate nowadays.

It's easy to make jokes about how insubstantial the millions of people seem to be who are constantly using technologies like Twitter. But these new digital and Web-based technologies, which have decentralized virtually everything, now occupy most of the average person's waking hours at work or at home. Mass media is struggling to stay massive in a world whose people want to break up into many discrete markets.

The one lump that won't change is government. Government in our time is looking out of it. It'd be one thing if government were almost cool in an old-fashioned way, but it's not. When everyone else's job gets measured by performance, its hallmark is malperformance--whether in Congress, California or New York.

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Nice point of view. I can see the truth of it. Maybe this is part of what boils under the surface of my opinion. I am a bleeding edge techie, programmer of the latest technologies but veteran of many wars and quakes of the past. I have seen this, I know how it turns out. FAIL.

I read of a study that shows that politicians are the bottom of the barrel in every way, morally, intellectually. They have no guts, are parasites that have found a niche where they can fester. They are failures at everything but the art of manipulation, and that only enough to barely tread water for appearances sake. They cover each others asses, give each other bogus awards and prestigious seats on committees, bribe and extort others to get their way, but like fight club there is only one rule. Don't let the sheep hear you talking about the club.

It doesn't really matter any more, though. They have the media in their pockets so even if they do get sloppy and let out any truth, that outrage would be nowhere to be seen except on a few media sources; indeed under attack at this very moment by the don of the family. It is organized crime, especially committed by those who hold no values except those that are expedient to display at the time.

This has to stop brothers and sisters. Can I get an amen?

JW

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