The new tactic of career politicians it would seem is “the word of the day.” During the last campaign for president, the word was “hope” or “change” but the newest word to adorn the mantle of political meaning is “transparency.” No doubt about it, our new president is true to the new mantra; it has taken precious little time to see through the gaping holes between his rhetoric and his actions.
A window to current liberal reality has been opened, not only revealing the politics of Barack Obama, but clearly exposing the true nature of Democrats in congress as well. The Democrats seem so confident in their power that they scarcely notice that the curtain on their actions is open wide and they are exposed to the public sans political cover. The zeal with which they cavalierly spend money in unfathomable amounts is breathtaking. Most revealing is that most of this tsunami of cash will be spent on little of substance and heavily on liberal social engineering programs.
In the week immediately following President Obama’s inauguration, the bulk of the mainstream media was flush with obsequious platitudes and praise to the man for whom they had sold their souls to get him elected. So too were the pronouncements by the Democrats and the media of the death of the Republican Party and especially the demise of all things conservative. In their haste and euphoria, they flung the drapes open wide on their idealism and their agenda, paying scant attention to the fact that their political slips were showing.
Now, as the media, members of Obama’s administration and most of the leading figures in the Democratic Party scramble to regain an air of decency, they only exacerbate the revelation of their hypocrisy. Without a doubt, they are all in search of the moron behind the curtain who coined the catchword “transparency.” What was he thinking? If he only had a brain.
One of the most interesting developments in the time since the presidential inauguration, as first espoused by CNBC Reporter Rick Santelli, is the rapidly growing formation of mock “Tea Parties.” This symbolic notion of probably the most notorious act of the American Revolution, in protest of the economic policies of the new Obama administration, is enormous. For grassroots America, to come together under this banner does not bode well for the continued success of the direction Democrats want to take this nation. It may also bode equally gloomy for their continued majority status in 2010.
Surprisingly, or perhaps not so, Democrats don’t seem to grasp the significance of the statement that the American people are making. For example, there was tremendous pressure on congress not to pass the enormous “spending,” aka “stimulus” bill, with a price tag unprecedented in congressional history; and yet, it was literally rammed through congress with nary a soul having a chance to fully read it. In spite of the objections of a majority of the people, the new president and a compliant congress “summarily” overruled them.
It is this arrogance and near dictatorial attitude, that has spurred the people to action. The current average for the right direction/wrong direction polls, as tabulated by RealClearPolitics.com, shows that 54.7% of the people believe we are headed in the wrong direction; hardly a resounding vote of confidence for either the president or the congress.
Many blame George W Bush for the entirety of our current ills. Many more hold him in extreme contempt. History will show however, that President Bush was fairly effective in holding our nation and our economy together through a very perilous time. It will also judge him correctly as less than an inspiring leader.
It was Barack Obama’s ability to inspire people as a true leader that gave him a very real mandate to be one of this nation’s greatest presidents. It is arrogance, selfish agenda, ideological myopia and yes, incompetence however, that will prevent it from ever being so. If Barack Obama had chosen to lead, he would be seen as a man among men. He chose instead to be nothing more than a Chicago style politician.
President Obama and the Democratic Congress, stripped of their rhetorical mask, are now quite visible. Obama’s actions and those of his Democrat colleagues, are, to use the word of the day, transparent, and easily seen for what they are through what they must certainly now consider, a pesky pane in the glass.