Dakota Beacon

We've just seen the Obama inner circle, and everyone else in the Capital who matters, gird on sword and shield and sound the trumpet, and suddenly it became impossible to call your congressman on account of the multitude of other callers who beat you to the phone -- and all but a tiny handful were apparently calling to put the brakes on our unbelievably small response.

Who's to say how many of the people calling were angry Conservatives? We'll never know and it really doesn't matter. What matters is this government has been stunned. Ceausescu's heard the angry mob.

I can imagine the argument I'd get from the people who managed the Romney campaign and from all the financial analysts I've seen discussing stocks and bonds with Larry Kudlow. The public's level of dissatisfaction would have to be far higher than it is to manifest a threat to those in power. Yet how do you measure the level of despair in a town, let alone a state, let alone a country the size of ours?

Do you feel we're experiencing a slow recovery or do you think we're in an economic downturn? If it's the latter how temporary do you think it is? I keep hearing how this is all is the new normal and from what I gather that's not meant to be regarded as a fixed point on a graph. The new normal is the long slide to somewhere we could not be made to go directly. It's the slow decline by increments we're expected to get accustomed to.

Presumably we're idiots. If you're out of work and can no longer hope to find a full time job, don't blame the government for making it impossible for anyone to hire you except for part time work where entry level is the only level now and forever. If you own any kind of business and you haven't yet gone broke, my guess would be you've not expecting quite as many customers as you had last year. Who's going to have the money to buy whatever you're selling?

If things weren't bad enough, along comes the Republican establishment with their amnesty proposals. First the people who've lost their jobs are assumed to vanish in order that the unemployment numbers not negatively impact the delicate sensibilities of the graduate school alumni who now call the shots in the Democratic Party. Then we get the country club Republicans tossing what's left of the middle class into Mexican ghettos -- presumably so the people in Dana Perino's Rolodex can finally feel like third world oligarchs.

Now, having mistakenly been given an opening, the peasants have snatched the sabers from the Lindsey Graham Fusiliers and snapped them in half. This, I submit, is what Robespierre would call a promising start.