Take a Lib to Lunch Day

Joy Tiz

©2010

Who picked up the tab for lunch at yesterday’s health crimes summit?  If the Republicans didn’t they certainly should have.  They finally got a  long needed image makeover, courtesy of the Democrats.  Team O could not have teed this thing up better for the opposition.  For months, all we’ve heard is barking  about the Republicans being the Party of No.  We actually like them better when they are the Party of Hell, No.  Republicans, we’ve been told over and over again, are obstructionists, refusing to let Soros-Obama  go forward with their can’t- fail utopian designs.

It never made any real sense,  since Obama has unstoppable majorities in both houses of Congress.  The Democrats so lowered expectations of the Republicans that all they had to do was show up properly groomed without mowing down any unicorns to improve their prestige with the public.

Once engaged in the flapdoodle, those wily Republicans drew facts into the debate; commencing with the pile of polling data showing that Americans are unrelentingly opposed to the health crimes atrocity.  The president, utterly clueless, responded to irksome questions by alternately asking his Democrat comrades to respond or making believe that it’s “already in the bill.”  The Narcissist in Chief didn’t welcome confrontation.

The Republicans stooped  to using the classic Conservative trick of presenting fact after fact,  buttressed by research.  Facts to a liberal are like daylight to a vampire.  Perplexed by this strategy, they did what they always do:  countered factual information with sob stories.  Like toddlers, liberals can never modulate their behavior, which is why they abandoned what little credibility they had left with the daffy drama about the woman wearing her dead sister’s dentures.

It’s pretty hard to get your bearings back after a boner like that.

Once the seven and a half hour ordeal was over and the hostages freed, Obama delivered his closing arguments which were as maundering as anything Nancy Pelosi has ever said.  Buried in there somewhere was a cue about going nuclear;  that is, using reconciliation to force health crimes on the American people in a month or six weeks, or something.

The Republican position on that should be: we double dog dare you.  Bring it.

Sure, it will be painful for awhile, but will end liberal rule in this country for a generation or two.

Obama knows a thing or two about the benefits of lowered expectations.  Thus, it was astounding that  he would arrange a forum virtually guaranteed  to advance the Republican agenda.  We knew at CPAC that plenty of Republicans had gotten the Tea Party message.  The Obama- orchestrated coming out party turned out to be a fine apparatus for some new stars to emerge, including such luminaries as Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan.

It was darned sportin of the Democrats to reintroduce conservatism to America.