The Superior Exhaustion

There comes a time in every game, regardless of the sport, when the losing team has tried everything it could, as hard as it could, to come from behind to win, and they've failed.  You can see it on the face of the coach, as he stands stoicly, arms folded, looking up at the clock and the scoreboard.  You can see it on the faces of the players, mimmicking their coach or sitting dejectedly with heads down beneath towels.  There's still some time left on the clock, but the game is out of reach.  Defeat is inevitable.

This phenomenon manifests itself a little differently in politics, where appearances are a part of the game, but it's just as unmistakable:

It's almost like they have no plan at all to fish the economy out of the toilet. Instead, the story will be the Tea Party, which...racist!

The DCCC Chairman leads:

In a speech this morning in Washington, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.) will offer a rebuttal to House Minority Leader John Boehner's remarks earlier this week in Ohio -- making the case that it is Republicans, not Democrats, who would move the country backwards economically (and otherwise) if put back into power.

 

The speech will hit Republican for pursuing a "destructive agenda" and call out the tea party for moving the GOP to the "extreme right", according to a committee official briefed on the remarks.

Van Hollen's speech, which is set for 10 a.m. at the National Press Club, is part of a broader push by national Democrats to suggest the tea party has taken over the GOP -- and set the stakes for midterm voters.

That "broader push" is already on. Here's civil rights activist and former Democratic congressman Walter Fauntroy:

"We are going to take on the barbarism of war, the decadence of racism, and the scourge of poverty, that the Ku Klux -- I meant to say the Tea Party," Fauntroy told a news conference today at the National Press Club. "You all forgive me, but I -- you have to use them interchangeably."

 

Fauntroy attempted to explain the comparison to white supremacists by saying that organizers behind the "Restoring Honor" rally are the same people who cut audio cables from a sound system the night before the historic March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

It almost seems....unsporting to have to point this out, but this is the vile, disgusting, despicable, defamatory, incendiary, and yes, RACIST propaganda line the Left has been flailing away with for over a year.  And yet the Tea Party movement remains stubbornly....popular.  Largely because the Tea Party movement is....Us, The People.  It's typically never a good idea to piss in the faces of people whose votes you still do need to get to a majority, and a majority is still what you need to win elections.  The Donks have rammed a lot of garbage down our throats the past year and a half, but I don't think they got to that one.  It's almost as if they're hanging their dejected heads beneath vicious, angry sneers.

The rest of why the Tea Party movement remains stubbornly popular harkens back to another old saying: "What you are speaks so loudly, I can't hear what you're saying."  The Batman corollary is "It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me".  And what Democrats have spent the past year and a half doing is attempting to systematically destroy the United States from within as we have known it for over two centuries, against the will and over the top of the American electorate, while guffawingly flipping us all off.  No amount of tired, wheezing, bitter, power-clinging, slanderous vituperation is going to obscure that fact.  IN fact, it's only going to add to the ass-kicking comeuppance that's headed their direction in two short months.

As if to prove the point (and that he hadn't gotten the DCCC memo), guess who seconded anticipated Speaker-designate John Boehner's call for The One to consign his economic disciples to the outer darkness:

Embattled freshman Representative Tom Perriello (D-VA5) called for President Obama to fire Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on August 7 during a town-hall meeting in Ruckersville, Virginia, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The call gained attention this week after House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH8) made a similar one in a speech Tuesday on the economy.

A local Tea Party group confirmed Perriello’s stance in a press release.

“In calling for Secretary Geithner’s firing, we support Congressman Perriello’s sentiment, with the hope that by replacing our nation’s chief economic policy makers we can begin the path to economic recovery,” it said in a press release Thursday. 

He won't admit it in the national spotlight (yet).  But heck, Perriello's not the only drone ducking Politburo memos, even about sentiment TPers don't actually share.

Exit question: Yeah, the respective messages are meant for diametric opposite demographics, but aren't members of BOTH demographics going to hear them?  Doesn't such incoherence discredit the messages and the messengers in the eyes of both audiences?  Or are either even paying attention anymore?