There is the old folk tale about the problems to be experienced when one employs Beelzebub to drive out the devil. We used Stalin and the Soviets to defeat Hitler and it took us almost 50 years to end that particularly troublesome partnership, which at the time, was judged a necessary evil by all and sundry.
Recently, in New England, the horrifying yearly bugaboo of Old Man Winter has set poor people's nerves on edge, pulled the liberal politician's acute snouts out of the Boston Globe's political pages, sent them on a search for commodities that they're sure somebody else should pay for and led Hugo Chavez to a loosening of his purse strings and an opening of his stop cocks to badger George Bush, garner kudos from his brothers and sisters in the Democratic Party and the never ending thanks from a fawning Cindy Sheehan.
Beginning last November, Representative Bill Delahunt, in a move to outdo his outsized liberal pal and political competitor, Joe Kennedy and his popular Citizens Energy Corporation, decided he'd better square himself with the socialist forces afoot in the Commonwealth and work out a deal with that people's paragon, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
Hugo, as we are all too well aware now, is quite a lad and is the proud leader of a country that can afford to shovel whatever amount of largesse northwards that's necessary to discredit George Bush. With 73% of his country living on two dollars a day or less, Hugo, as the absolute robber baron, can afford to be generous with their lamentable wealth, especially when it's going to Massachusetts, one of the wealthiest states in the richest country on earth.
after so many years of big liberal government, combined with ludicrously high taxes, you'd think a little thing like energy management would've been solved long ago by the surplus of Socrates-like solons in the Massachusetts statehouse, who are so adept at finding the most minute of temporary revenue streams to tax. But sadly, it appears that there's no such thing as a rainy, or in this case a snowy, day fund. So turning to a dictatorship which brooks no dissent and operates labor camps for the troubled and firing squads for the disaffected was as easy for old Bill Delahunt as leafing through the yellow pages and looking under energy and finding oil, then seeing Chavez, Hugo, cheap, no strings attached, dictator, socialist.
So the deal is cooked, Delahunt preens, Kennedy sulks, Cindy hugs herself and Hugo takes a bow in The Boston Globe and on CNN for making inroads in america at the expense of his hated nemesis, the enemy of all honest working folk and terrorists alike, George Bush.
Then in early January, we had the Harry Belafonte and Hugo Chavez sing along, where Hammerin' Hank let fly with the epithets and called President Bush the world's greatest terrorist while flying high on the collective farm.
Before the unsavory images of the former calypso singer in the company of the homey dictator, now firmly in league with the Terror from Tehran in both money and goals, treasonously bullyragging the President could even be relegated to the third section of the paper, it was time for yet another bold Democratic bigwig to announce his turn for the nurse.
John Baldacci of Maine jumped on the Chavez bandwagon before the echoes of the Belafonte song fest had even faded away, seemingly undeterred by its imbecility and its vindictiveness. The Downeast Guv cooked a deal netting a hundred bucks each for the 48,000 Down Easters on fuel assistance.
John Richardson (D-Brunswick) Maine's House Speaker put it best, explaining it all to the press by saying that President Bush's "disagreements" with Chavez were no reason not to do business with Venezuela. It depends, of course, how you perceive or define business, what that business supports and what those disagreements really amount to.
Of course, the Baldacci administration is busily hiding the recent photos taken during a wonk session held with Castro, now demanded under freedom of information acts by a number of groups, and are keeping quiet on the actual topics discussed, although a growing number of folks in Maine are curious about what a heck a Maine governor, now that he's sucking oil from one vicious dictator, could be doing chatting it up with the murderous Fidel — selling him lobsters?
Not to be outdone in the New England race into ignominy, Democratic New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, a decided rookie at the political game in his state, sent out feelers to Hugo for a similar deal in late January. However his graceless pursuit to garner cheap oil from the bloody hands of the murderous strong man did not go unnoticed by his constituents nor by the US Senators representing his state.
Of course, right in the middle of these tender and fragile negotiations, anti-war activist and leading liberal candidate for sainthood, sporting the latest in stigmata and all, Cindy Sheehan, as is her wont, had to visit Hugo, where she explained the vast hanky-panky associated with the criminal activities of america and dreamily snuggled up to the South american strong man on camera. Sadly, for the sake of Governor Lynch's ongoing consultations, these actions may have thrown a bit of chilled water on the heated discussions and rapturous promises of both parties.
In the meantime, however, Lynch's office was found to be both singularly inept in the handling of individual queries, where the much publicized and vaunted statewide hot line was down for hours on end, and abysmally prepared for the massive statewide outcry. US Senator John Sununu, son of a former Republican governor, called the Chavez program grandstanding and a disgrace. and within a few days the Governor was backpedaling and putting the program on the back burner for further study. at least in the Granite State, the people had spoken against this same Beelzebub, so openly embraced by other, perhaps more forward-looking and open-minded New England leaders.
Finally, now that it's officially the warmest winter in quite awhile in the Northeast, eager to join the liberal socialists on the exclusive and oh, so chi-chi progressive bandwagon and with a chance to thumb a nose at the inelegant rubes in neighboring New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders (I-V) has announced that Vermont, the former bovine playpen of the outlandishly inane Howard Dean, has finally signed on with Hugo Chavez, and is eager to get the Green Mountain State's newly sharpened meat hooks into this cut rate oil pipeline.
ah, New England. Which once stood shoulder to shoulder against the tyranny of England and was nearly bled white in the Revolution, has now had its once staunch members lock elbows in support of the lawless mayhem of a tin horn and malignant dictator to curry favor with the progressive press, under the guise of garnering votes, and to out do each other in the game of skewering a bold and protective President — and all in the warmest of winter weather in memory, or so we're told by the hacks in the global warming department.
I shudder to think what nefarious plans and preparations these fair weather patriots might concoct and which additional fascist and communist autocrats this association of nincompoops might feel the need to hustle if the weather turned unmistakably cold.
But in the lengthy liberal war against america, oil is a tool, the poor are pawns and Old Man Winter is the latest Beelzebub to be employed to drive out the devil, however that devil is defined by the current progressive cabal.
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