When the Going Gets Tough: "These People Need an Enemy!" [View All]

Chimpy's problem is you can't shoot at Mother Nature.

When Chimp first made a faint noise about Iraq, Helen Thomas was there battling Ari Fleischer (who kept insisting he really hadn't said anything about Iraq). I wrote to her to thank her, saying I was afraid Iraq was on their radar.

She wrote back that she'd keep trying to find out what they were up to, and added this: "These people need an enemy!"

That is their MO. Apologies to those who hate Nazi comparisons, but it's the same thing: villifying SOMEbody to cast themselves as warriors. It's the Russians. It's Saddam. (It's bin Laden -- scratch that, it's Saddam.) It's Liberals. It's anti-Christians. It's feminists, it's gays, it's Michael Moore, it's always SOMEbody or they have nothing to stand on. Their whole political platform is about a crusade AGAINST something.

So here they are fighting who -- Nature. Poverty. Thirst. Hunger. Death. Desperation. Anger. Fear. They don't like THESE enemies. They can't appear tough, they can't pound the podium with red faces, they can't use guns, they can't "fire up their base." Without an enemy to villify, they are lost -- humanitarian effort is just NOT part of the "tough-guy" costuming and posturing that's become their political stance on EVERY issue.

Political gain is everything to them, and they're clueless now, looking for a way to make this work for them. They're on their own -- there's nobody else to blame. The accountability is all theirs, their greed and incompetence is showing, and they don't have ANYbody to rail against.

It's time to call for repealing tax cuts, for conservation, and for real compassion and sacrifice -- they won't do it, and they have nowhere to look for blame. So if there comes a time when we stop yelling and crying at what we're seeing on TV right now, watch them. Imo,they are OUR enemy -- and it will be interesting.