George Rebane
‘Propaganda in the mornin’, propaganda in the evenin’, propaganda all the live-long day.’ It’s been a full time job, going on two years now, to put lipstick on this pig. And it’s not over yet as the President prepares to depart on a cross country campaign to sell Obamacare. This is the new law for the peehpul, their representatives had to be bribed to pass it, and now they need to be told how much they like it. Kool-Aid now has a new flavor. I predict these mid-term elections will be the most watched and eventful in the country’s history.
Reading NCWatch, I learned that Former Union Editor Jeff Pelline’s blog will join the new Sacramento Connect network of blogs started by the Sacramento Bee. Jeff has been assiduously reporting and interpreting foothill news for months. And his Sierra Foothills Report blog will now receive traffic from the Sac Bee website. I agree that the format of Sacramento Connect is a good one for newspapers, and a great match for like-minded satellite blogs.
This new relationship should lay aside any continuing claims that Mr Pelline offers centerline and balanced reportage. The Sac Bee is an established MSM liberal voice of California. It has been one of the media stalwarts supporting the Democratic California legislature over the years as that body passed law after law to impede, halt, and destroy the state’s economy. That job is pretty well done, and California will now choose to become either a federalized or dysfunctional state. Federalized if it intends to maintain its skeletized services while surrendering control and its fisc to the Beltway. And dysfunctional if it continues to reduce services and raise taxes as it chases balanced budgets with its shrinking revenue base. (The Arnold has now become the nation’s epitome of the girly-man governor.)
The Sac Bee, and now its online minions, will implement the plan to bring coastal county politics to the Sierra. Much is ballyhooed by the local left that Nevada County has already abandoned its traditional conservative values and outlook. Looking at what’s going on in Grass Valley and Nevada City, it’s hard to dispute those claims. And conservatives in Nevada County are the most laid back bunch of do littles I have seen. They can still claim some traction in our ‘non-partisan’ Rood Center, but that too is shaping up to be the Sierra version of the Alamo over the next couple of elections.
Meanwhile news outlets like the Sac Bee, joined by folks like Mr Pelline, will be able to trumpet their promotion of Obama’s version of the 1930s WPA. All that economic development funded by the good people of Ohio may now be coming our way. All we need do is write some clever grant proposals, look destitute enough, and promise to be greener than thou. Case in point, tonight the Green Team will again meet in Nevada City’s city hall to consolidate their good ideas for bringing in some of that Other People’s Money.
Be that as it may. Democracy is an unstable form of governance, and a republic is marginally better when both are headed by professional politicians whose job one is Job One. We congratulate Jeff Pelline on the advent of his new journalistic megaphone. As one of the lone conservative voices in these mountains who is not a journalist, I will continue offering my commentary on the progress of our march toward hope and change.
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