George Rebane

The chronicle of the young but mighty Tea Party Movement (TPM) has been started and is being presented as a multi-part series starting in today’s 29oct10 WSJ (here).  Because the TPM is truly an American grass roots phenomenon, the recounting of its birth and today’s adolescence is a bit of a mish-mash.  The article goes into some detail on the internal mudslinging that inevitably arises out of a multi-factioned and effectively leaderless movement.  Some of this has even spilled over to RR (here and here).  What we tea partiers are still looking for is those big oil (or substitute your favorite) company checks that will turn our simple heads and march us lemming-like off the ideological cliff.  Ain’t America great?!

The nation’s CCO in the White House is now also being referred to as “Hey Dude!” – that’s dude like in dude ranch.  Has anyone noticed the real reason why no progressive wants to talk about the Dude’s landmark legislative achievement Obamacare.  Recall that this triumph was to reduce deficits, lower the national debt, let you “keep your healthcare provider”, not lead to rationing or functional ‘death committees’, lower healthcare costs (if you’re not indigent), reduce insurance premiums, not destroy the health insurance industry, not drive medical care providers out of the industry, … .  As the bill was going through the sausage factory (aka Congress), these were known as blatant lies to everyone in the country except those following socketpuppet Pelosi’s pie-eyed admonition for us to wait until it was passed before anyone could really tell what was in there.

Well, it’s been out for some time now and we’re still discovering new landmines and their ripple effects.  I predict that Obamacare’s stench will continue growing until it is (hopefully) repealed.  Today only the Republicans want to remind us of this atrocity as they continue to put the damn thing back into the Democrats’ trophy case after every time they sneak it out.  Not even the duped acolytes in the lame stream media want anything to do with it.

More of the same can be said about the economic Viagra that was foisted on the nation.  Again the Dems don’t want to handle this limp willie, and the few who can, now loudly remind everyone that they didn’t vote for it.  Remember the cold panic of what would surely happen to the country if the Chief Dude didn’t stimulate right then and there? Of the $871B, or was it $814B, or …? that was allocated over that winter weekend, the monies have dribbled out ever so slowly in dribs and drabs to fund “shovel ready” projects that even our President later admitted were then non-existent?  (This President is really going after FDR’s record on the truth meter.)  I’m not sure whether Nevada County qualified for a drib or a drab, but the nearby chart shows how the county has fared by its own accounting.  Regardless, our unemployment remains firmly well north of 10%.

 
Let’s see now, 100K people live in the county, 306M live in the country.  That figures to 100K/306M = 0.0003.  And 0.0003 times $814B is about $266M.  Can you possibly imagine $266M dropped on Nevada County?  Getting that much OPM, we wouldn’t sober up for two weeks.  But to date we have received only about $5M, which is a little less than 2% of our pro rata share.  Any way you look at it, we got screwed, blued, and tattooed.  But that seems to be the national norm and what next Tuesday’s election is all about.