Strange visions of the latest plans for a return to the utopian work farms, salted and spiced with a dash of Stalin, are combined in the effete utilitarian mixing bowl, and served up as if it's an entirely new bit of warm compost — ready for another mass distribution.
as the sheer brilliance of the new Democratic plan begins to swim into focus and crystallize in the dissipating heat haze of its hatching, Mr. John Kerry's habitually offered alternative for a quick defeat in Iraq is again laid before us, courtesy, this time, of UPI, rather than his usual mail order press and a byline from the likes of the Boston Globe or the NY Times, which he subscribes to and grimly reads, searching endlessly for his name, his small accomplishments and a mention of his complicated cognitions.
Having found his repetitive proposition in the newspapers carrying this abridged UPI opus on his omniscience, Mr. Kerry will cut it gingerly from the page and tenderly place it among his growing pile of trophies, medals, favorite caps and other private treasures — the trail markers of a diminutive life. and somewhere in the pile are those tiny few bills and amendments this renowned political savant has carried to his brethren in the US Senate.
Yes, the plans have come to those who wait with an exactitude as those once delivered by a God fearing Moses, though the liberals of today eschew all mention of any god, save those worshipped by those who are currently beheading us.
and the long awaited Democratic plan has been designed to woo the hardened farmers, to seduce the nubile collegiate set, to sweep the soccer moms off their sneakered feet and render them helpless, to bring the capitalists to heel, to reap trillions in new streams of unheralded revenue, to force us all to pay as they would have us go, and to begin to entwine all elements of our once private lives with the roots of a larger central bureaucratic, though friendly Democratic, state.
Like the burning bushes and the towering flames of the distant past, the plan is best viewed by wearing sunglasses or welding goggles, such is its inherent power — the power to convert, to move and to hypnotize — much like the storied dynamism hidden in the ark of the Covenant.
The Democratic plan, stripped of its raiments, which will lay low the Republicans with a surety not seen since the collapse of the Tsars, the fall of Weimar, or the triumph of liberalism over the evil forces of McCarthy and Nixon, finally consists of a return to the basic liberal food groups in these obese Republican times — increasing the minimum wage, cutting the costs of prescription drugs, reducing rates on student loans, cutting subsidies for oil companies, pay as you go budgeting, and deeper restrictions on lobbying activities.
For a handy translation, one can use a handy conservative Rosetta Stone and read it this way:
Increasing the minimum wage will put the squeeze on those dreaded small business Republicans, a great move for the left, and maybe wipe more of them out, putting some on the street and on the dole and turning them into Democrats.
Cutting the costs on prescription drugs will be a sop for the disappearing blue hair bloc and for the rabid anti-capitalists of the party, and get back at the awful drug companies, who still insist, in this progressive century, on making a profit, of all things.
By reducing the rates on student loans, the Democrats hope to snare more college students, continuing the great Howlin' Dean outreach program, a pet of Mr. Kerry's, and reduce the revenue flow which will have to be made up by the 51% of us still paying an income tax.
Cutting the oil company subsidies makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and is simply vindictive. The subsidies enable the both big and little to look for more supplies and to research alternative fuels, but, with the Democrats, hate sparks proposals all the time, and hate is a good internal salesman.
Pay-as-you-budget is simply the old time tested thick cloying white phosphorous smoke screen for a big tax increase coming our way in fancy gussied up Harry Reid back talk, if they can just get the numbers to do it.
and the lines about lobbyists are just window dressing and useless pap, because without the rakeoffs from the Indians, big business, oil, pharmo and all the rest, which make the liberals as two faced as everybody else, they'd fold in a minute and decamp.
as for John Kerry's latest plan, simply see every other plan he's floated lately, save for the commas, the one semi-colon and the addition of that one cedilla. also note that he's learned a lot from that late pseudo-scientific treatise coughed up by RFK Jr., who did so much to make Mr. Kerry's last White House run seem so meaningful, valiant and completely purloined.
Now that these two towering plans of conquest are on the table, the bickering among the Democrats has already begun, as they search for the key to the heartland's ballot boxes. The great factions, the Deaniacs and those who believe the party should stand for something, anything, are squaring off for a decisive go at each other's throats.
and only time will tell who the winner will be.
Meanwhile, america stands agog at the pettifoggery.
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