It’s True, Every Cloud Does Have a Silver Lining

The past couple of months have seen a lot of bad news for America. The “change” promised so loudly and triumphantly by Barack Obama while trying to capture the presidency has landed with a resounding “whomp” creating discomfiture all over the horizon. The economic news is more than disappointing, it is catastrophic not only at first glance but even after an in-depth examination.

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Our banks and lending institutions are as shaky as they have been in the past 80 years.  The automotive industry is uncertain as to whether to plan for a full funeral or long-term hospitalization.  And that area, hospitalization, is shuddering with the incredible tremors of uncertainty on whether, what type, how much, how little, who gets and who does not, and who will be allowed to just wither on the vine.  The new administration boldly selects new personnel for positions of power within its framework without seeming to care about their personal faults or infractions of being above the law.  It has been almost a clean sweep of people who have very casually ignored the laws or at least the customs of personal checks and balances in relation to their obligations to pay their fair share of taxes.  But on close analysis, it should have been expected and really was to a high degree predictable in that a large percentage of those chosen were at one time a part of the ‘loose-with-the-law’ group known as the “Clintonistas” who served in the unsavory Clinton Administration.  Our national governing body is growing uncontrollable with the ecstasy of nearly unstoppable power pangs as defecting turncoat minority party members unashamedly bootlick to gain favor with the majority party in hopes of getting a few crumbs of personal favor while ignoring what is best for the country.   On occasion these toadies do vote with their own political party, but it is mostly symbolic to allow them to say that they are not totally bought off. But while these abnormal and almost unheard of by traditional American standards which significantly held sway to make this the greatest country ever in the world, have darkened our vistas and clouded our survival as the leader of the world, there has been at least one bright glimmer of hope that sanity has not all but disappeared. On March 27, 2009, David A. Patten writing in Newsmax. com reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s popularity has fallen to a new low for the year.  According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll released on that date, claiming that a whopping total of 60 percent of likely voters now view her unfavorably, of which an astounding 42 percent consider her job performance as “very unfavorable.” Patten also states that just two weeks ago those numbers for Pelosi were 53 and 36 indicating her “popularity is in a serious tailspin.”  Blame for some of this decline asserts Patten is “the bad economy and the fallout over AIG bonuses.” Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid is not immune to weaker numbers either.  In a poll taken a few days before Pelosi, Rasmussen Reported Reid’s unfavorable number to be 45, somewhat better than the Speaker but still not the kind of public support a major leader desires.  And only 23 percent of those polled gave him an assessment of favorable. Patten concludes his report by saying that while those Democrats were losing ground with the public, the Republican House and Senate leaders did not show any increases, remaining relatively constant, which in my opinion is probably attributable to the fact that neither of those two legislative bodies have allowed full consideration to any of the Republican financial plans to date. Republican President Abraham Lincoln was quoted as saying, “You can fool some of the people ALL of the time, and ALL of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool ALL of the people ALL of the time.”   Words of wisdom like that are in short supply these days.