The Superior Despair

Yeah, I know, Teacups doesn't really come across as being in mourning of his and his party's imminent cashiering from Congress.  Here he comes across as being really, really, really confused:

If Grayson is saying anything here, it's that when Beltway Bob rehearses his lashing out at The One's base for its ingratitude for all he's done for them, as opposed to all they think he hasn't, Grayson is the guy showing up in the mirror like in those old Right Guard commercials:

Is it a mirror or are you soaking in it?  Only your hairdresser knows for sure.

Know why Alan Grayson isn't sweating The Wave?  I think deep down he knows his election to Congress was a pure-d fluke and was inevitably going to be REALLY short-lived, so he's enjoyed his fifteen minutes of infamy to the fullest extent humanly possible.

And, you know, the chance to use C-SPAN to put in a two-year audition for a host slot on MSNBCCCP.

***To be honest, we don't actually KNOW that Mad Maxine can't go a single sentence without race-baiting; we've just always suspected it.

Today she gave a press conference about the ethics trial she's demanded, complete with co-equal name status with Good-Time Charlie on the marquis, where she will righteously proclaim her inalienable right to be as corrupt a wretch as she wants because her remote ancestors were slaves.  D'ya think our suspicion was confirmed or refuted?

From Ace's live-blog:

-- Begins by complaining that no trial has been scheduled and may be held after the election. Claims she wants charges all resolved now. Already combative about a schedule.

-- Claims neither she or husband gained any benefit.

-- Says, inadvertently accurately, that this case is about "access." Like her access to lobby the Treasury for her husband's benefit. But that's not how she means it-- she plays the race card, talking up how she represents minorities and brings their issues to the government.

I guess suspense was too much to hope for.  But I was thinking she could at least have drawn it out long enough for me to look at my watch.  As it was, this didn't even waste much of my time.

***Dirty Harry Reid can't understand how any Hispanic could be a Republican, all right?  And who can blame him, what with fake Republicans pretending to push fake ideas like a fake constitutional amendment banning birthright citizenship.  Nobody in their right mind would actually SERIOUSLY push such a horrible, bigoted, unAmerican idea, right?

Except, um, Harry Reid, seventeen years ago:

Title X of the Reid introduced bill shows the Nevada Democrat took Senator Lindsey Graham’s, South Carolina Republican, idea on the interpretation of the 14^th Amendment and documented it into legislation:

“TITLE X—CITIZENSHIP 4 SEC. 1001. BASIS OF CITIZENSHIP CLARIFIED.  In the exercise of its powers under section of the Fourteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the Congress has determined and hereby declares that any person born after the date of enactment of this title to a mother who is neither a citizen of the United States nor admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident, and which person is a national or citizen of another country of which either of his or her natural parents is a national or citizen, or is entitled upon application to become a national or citizen of such country, shall be considered as born subject to the jurisdiction of that foreign country and not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States within the meaning of section 1 of such Article and shall therefore not be a citizen of the United States or of any State solely by reason of physical presence within the United States at the moment of birth.”

Even the summary of the bill contains language that would offend many of Mr. Reid’s supporters who are pushing amnesty for illegal immigrants in the United States:

“A bill to curb criminal activity by aliens, to defend against acts of international terrorism, to protect American workers from unfair labor competition, and to relieve pressure on public services by strengthening border security and stabilizing immigration into the United States.”

Or, in the language of the great unwashed, Reid was....right.  Until about four years ago, which just happened to coincide with both his rise to Senate caucus leadership and his party's first big amnesty push this decade.  Which put him on the wrong side of his Nevada constituents, which is why his reconquista-pandering crack was such a PR debacle in the first place.

Unlike Grayson, who knows he's doomed, and Waters, who knows she's untouchable, Reid can't escape the electoral reaper no matter which way he tacks.  And that, my friends, is despair indeed.

***I'm trying to figure out if Babs Boxer is despairing or just indignant that she's actually having to work to hold on to her heretofore slam-dunk safe senate seat.

I tend to think that she's arrogant and ignorant enough for her current ire to be entirely the latter - which means if Carly Fiorina does shoot down that dirigible-sized Boxer head over the Eastern Pacific for real on November 2nd, the latter will manifest itself that much more ferociously:

Facing the toughest re-election fight of her career, three-term U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer attributed her sagging approval rating to voters who are "grumpy" about the sputtering economy and an opponent, Republican nominee Carly Fiorina, who "doesn't have a job" and spends her time "going around the state trashing me in every way possible."

The California Democrat's remarks came during an hour-long interview with the Mercury News editorial board, in which she cast the election as a choice between moving forward or returning to the policies of President George W. Bush; suggested she would favor raising the Social Security tax on "very upper-income workers" to help balance the federal budget; and said she favors lowering the filibuster threshold in the Senate from sixty votes to fifty-five to curb what she called Republican obstructionism.

"Grumpy" as in voters shouldn't be concerned about a "sputtering" economy?  Voters should just sit down, shut up, and accept the Party Line that Godbama "fixed" the economy by wasting $800 billion in borrowed money a year and a half ago and proceeded to squander nine months taking away private American health care while economic Rome burned?  Voters should be grateful that the regime's belated answer to continuing recession is a lame fusillade of contempibly false sloganeering?

Sounds to me like it's Senator M'am who's grumpy.  Grumpy that her Senate gig isn't a lifetime appointment.  Grumpy that there are any lingering constraints on her and her party's waning power.  And grumpy that the best outcome for her may end up being a return to minority status, if she remains in the Senate at all.

Ah, well, grumpiness is part of the acceptance process.  It's somehow fitting that hers will be one hundred eighty degrees out of phase with that of the rest of us.

***Remember last year when Newsweek ran that jaw-droppingly insular, solipsistic, existentially closed "We are all socialists now!" cover?  It would seem that Chucky has maintained his subscription in good standing:

“Sour” voters reluctant to award Democrats for their legislative success are one of the reasons the party is trailing in the polls, according to Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY).

But Senate leaders will keep trying to change that with a jobs-based September agenda, the Senate Democratic Conference vice chairman said Thursday.

Asked why the Democrats are still expected to lose seats in November after passing major bills like healthcare reform, credit card reform, a fair-pay act and Wall Street reform, Schumer said voters are frustrated and don’t feel the effects of the legislation.

“It’s the world we’re in. It’s a much more negative, critical world, and people are sour now,” he said. “The thing they’re most sour about is the future, not the present. In other words, if people were sure that things would be better five years from now, they’d be less sour.

“Given that, I think people are more negative right now across the board — the right wing is more negative, the left wing is more negative, the center is more negative. That’s how it is.”

Schumer, of course, can say things this insulting, since he isn't being seriously challenged for re-election this cycle.  And in a sense you can understand why he and his fellow-travelers might draw the conclusion that the voters are just too stupid to know what's good for 'em - after all, they elected douchebags like Chucky in '08 to run the whole show, didn't they?

What he's comfortably ignoring is the tendency of people who realize they've been swindled and made fools of in the process to want - what shall we call it, restitution? - yeah, restitution.  Satisfaction.  Their money back - literally.  It's why department stores have return windows, why retailers have money-back guarantees, and why manufacturers have recalls on occasion.

In this case, the Dems in 2006 and their "some kind of a god" in 2008 sold swing voters a risible bill o' goods in exchange for their votes that the former never had any intention of keeping.  "Most open, honest, and ethical Congress ever," "fiscal responsibility," "Your taxes will be cut, not raised, if you make under $250K a year,"  a "$175 billion stimulus," "post-partisanship," "post-racialism," "lobbyist-free zone," etc., etc., etc.  Whatever "moderate" sounding, "independent"-pleasing pap Donks had to say, they said, and they said it when voters were paying maximum attention two falls ago to get the total power they craved and needed to "transform" America irreversibly before We, The People could take it away from them.

With the ramming of ObamaCare, they may have succeeded enough to hold on to that nose in the tyrannical tent.  But that's hardly a "success" a betrayed electorate is going to be pleased about.  So why is Chucky evincing his own feelings of betrayal?  Because Donks are the last ones bitterly clinging to their own self-idolatrous hype.

Exit quote from Ace:

How Bad Is It? Usually Democrats wait until after an election to begin insulting the public that turned them out as stupid, racist, ignorant, and emotionally sour-pussed.

Now they're doing it three months before one.

They're getting their hate on for the public very early.

Naw, they've ALWAYS hated us.  They're just not bothering to conceal it now because they know WE know it.  Why else are they going to try to make Ace's suggested Donk Party slogan a literal Gotterdamerung in the lame duck session?