Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Er, uh, we have a bit of a problem...
Indeed. When the billionty-trillionty dollar windfall goes to (envelope please, *gasp*, *dramatic pause*; "Why, wonder of wonders, the OIL INDUSTRY!"), not a peep, not a stinkin' f*ckin' peep is heard from across the aisle. This is the final straw. No one stands in opposition any longer. The Democrats have not had a clear, straight-talking voice since James Carville, and there's good reason: the Dems haven't a thing to say. What the erstwhile opposition refuses to capitulate to is the need to encapsulate their ideas into nano-sized bytes. A statement like "Democrats raise taxes", regardless of truth or context, resonates in the empty scull of the American electorate. I could go on forever, from "Activist Federal Judges" to "Covert Homosexual Agenda", but I digress, and you, if you're reading this blog, already got the point.
But to illustrate, mostly to myself at this point in time, I just surfed over to both the DNC and RNC web sites. From the right, a large picture of the Missing Village Idiot with the American Flag, a white guy in a suit, and a woman of indeterminable ethnicity, and a large caption reading "Reforming Health Care". For emphasis, in case you don't get it, there is a video monitor behind HR Bushness which displays the message "Reforming Health Care for the 21st Century". Hello. This is your brain with a drill bit in it. Middle America vibrates with resonance.
But from the left, we find a headline in a text box telling us that "Fighting Dems Take The Hill", "Ensuring the Future for the Young" (the obligatory Black History article), and notice that Governor Dean is appearing on Face the Nation. Here's what I glean from this comparison.
The RNC focused on one stupid thing, and hammered it, and it's something that Joe and Jane Sixpack care about. It doesn't matter that the only reforming going on involves funneling copious profits to the Pharmaceutical and Health Maintenance industries, but hey, what the hell, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. (Am I skewing too old here, with 1939 movie references?) The DNC site doesn't blast "Fighting for Soldiers" and hammer it (you had to read the Fighting Dems article, and Messrs Sixpack et. al. don't particularly do that), and the rest is pap. Self serving pap. It's worse than ESPN plugging, well, the shows on ESPN.
Until the un-right side of the political house is willing to get into the trenches and play Spin the Perception with the big guys, nothing gets accomplished. The average American can only concentrate on 2 things per day, and they'd better be bloody simple.
Let's stop here, shall we?
But to illustrate, mostly to myself at this point in time, I just surfed over to both the DNC and RNC web sites. From the right, a large picture of the Missing Village Idiot with the American Flag, a white guy in a suit, and a woman of indeterminable ethnicity, and a large caption reading "Reforming Health Care". For emphasis, in case you don't get it, there is a video monitor behind HR Bushness which displays the message "Reforming Health Care for the 21st Century". Hello. This is your brain with a drill bit in it. Middle America vibrates with resonance.
But from the left, we find a headline in a text box telling us that "Fighting Dems Take The Hill", "Ensuring the Future for the Young" (the obligatory Black History article), and notice that Governor Dean is appearing on Face the Nation. Here's what I glean from this comparison.
The RNC focused on one stupid thing, and hammered it, and it's something that Joe and Jane Sixpack care about. It doesn't matter that the only reforming going on involves funneling copious profits to the Pharmaceutical and Health Maintenance industries, but hey, what the hell, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. (Am I skewing too old here, with 1939 movie references?) The DNC site doesn't blast "Fighting for Soldiers" and hammer it (you had to read the Fighting Dems article, and Messrs Sixpack et. al. don't particularly do that), and the rest is pap. Self serving pap. It's worse than ESPN plugging, well, the shows on ESPN.
Until the un-right side of the political house is willing to get into the trenches and play Spin the Perception with the big guys, nothing gets accomplished. The average American can only concentrate on 2 things per day, and they'd better be bloody simple.
Let's stop here, shall we?
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