By Mary Lyon -- World News Trust
By George, I think we hit the trifecta. This year’s off-year election saw the Democrats going three-for-three in the big contests of the season – the governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, and of course, the misalignment Arnold Schwarzenegger (the man some now call the ONE-TERM-inator) hoped to jam down our throats here in California. We weren’t buying. Neither were the employers in the two states on the opposite coast.
Yes, employers. EVERY LAST ONE OF US here in this country – and that means voters and politicians alike, inside and outside the proverbial Beltway, in governmental positions large and small – needs to remember this fact. As voters and taxpayers, WE ARE THE EMPLOYERS. These people, from George W. Bush on down, work for US. THEY are OUR employees. They forget this too swiftly themselves, what with all the power and influence and bully-pulpits with which our votes endow them. Easy enough for all those marvelous perks to go to somebody’s head. It’s really too bad that we only have election cycles every so often to remind them otherwise.
But where does this put us as Democrats? Winston Churchill once said "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." So, where do we stand now? Is this the beginning of the end for a so-far utterly miserable GOP reign of terror? Do we boldly seize the initiative, the time, and the opportunity, and do what needs to be done to close the deal? Or do our leaders relax and let down their guard to savor the ground they’ve gained, and let the enemy recover? Do our guys get it?\ So far, it looks as though Dubya himself is helping us more than his own camp. Junior himself still doesn’t get the concept described above – that he is our employee – HE works for US, not the other way around. I doubt what his employers dictated this past week will get through to him. Last fall, he declared that he’d had his “accountability moment” and that he’d passed the voters’ test. He said the election results certified that Americans approved of what he was doing, and that he’d earned lots of political capital to spend in the next four years. He doesn’t get it. When the public has placed its trust in you sufficient to install you in public office, then EVERY SECOND you spend in that public office, you ARE accountable to the public. It’s no wonder Bush is floundering around now with coattails in tatters and the people’s trust in him in the dumpster. His allies are in various stages of panic mode all around him, trying to come up with the best strategies for him to rehabilitate himself after this debacle. But they don’t get it, either.
Granted, it wasn’t his loss last Tuesday, per se. Other guys farther down the food chain took it on the chin. Since George spends most of his waking hours (when he isn’t busily exercising) enjoying life in his little bubble, in which he doesn’t have to read or pay attention to anyone but Karl Rove, and never is heard a discouraging word from his staff, he can’t be expected to understand any of this. Especially when you also factor in such aspects as his unwillingness to admit mistakes, his staff’s reluctance to tell him anything they know he doesn’t want to hear, his conviction that he’s been anointed by God Who personally put him in the Oval Office, and his life-long track record of never having to face any serious consequences to match his many serious blunders. Because he doesn’t get it, he can’t be expected to take the steps necessary to boot back up. They’re telling Bush that what he really needs to do is get rid of Karl Rove, something as appealing to him as turning in his own Divinely-issued keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He doesn’t see any of this as having anything to do with him anyway. What, him worry?
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