George Rebane

Justifiably giddy with their fundamentally transforming victory Sunday, the Administration is opening its kimono.  The Reverend Al Sharpton has been elevated into the White House circle, and after conferring with President Obama, he went before the cameras to declare, “… the American public overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected Barack Obama.”

The Reverend is no dummy, and the Administration is clearly using him as the bait fish to see what kind nibbles it will get from TV land in showing its true colors.  They seem to think, perhaps correctly, that this is the time to go ‘All In’ and run with the momentum of healthcare.

The fuzzy lefties have been denying Obama’s true colors for almost two years now.  Their position has gotten so silly that some of the more mesmerized have even claimed that identifying someone backing socialist policies as a socialist is actually “name calling”.  I think it’s now time to cut this crap from debates in the public forum.  If you consistently back collectivism and collectivist policies, identify with the self-declared progressives and socialists, then stand up and be counted, you’re a socialist.

Now is the time to take pride in your ideology and acknowledge what everyone already knows, because of you, our country has again arrived at that nexus in its history where the debate must answer which fork of the road we take.  And as one reader of these pages keeps reminding us, ‘Elections have consequences.’  Well, of course they do.  But the important thing now is that most of the majority that voted for Obama is saying, ‘Holy s#@t!, did we do that?’

So we need to decide on which fork to embark.  Taking Yogi Berra’s counsel on the matter brings us to the alternative some of us have labeled as The Great Divide.