Unsound
By John Batchelor on July 25, 2010 at 2:30 PM in Current Affairs
Unusually unironic remarks from the MSNBC celebrity Ed Schulz at the Netroots NPPPation confab at Vegas on Friday 23 — and the suggestion that the insurgency of 2006 has moved toward Stand-Up and resume shopping and away from VBIED planning.
Large robust man in a blue suit wandering a stage with a corded mike does not communicate confidence and violence. This appears to be one of the stages of grief — the stage where you start to comfort the aggrieved and use this power to endorse yourself. Ed Schultz comforts the wounded Netroots ops.
Wounded how? After two years of empowerment, the young have lost the sense of mission.
Netroots is organized as an anarchist band on the web — not as a cadre of revolutionaries. NEtroots selected Candidate Obama because he resembled None of the Above.
Now that POTUS resembles Same Old Same Old, the Netroots ops are disconsolate. They can see the GOP insurgency gathering in the valley for the assault in November.
They feel helpless.
What was the point of 2006 and 2008? Obamcare and FinReg? Those are patchwork documents that will be torn apart by the GOP.
What about the stimulus? Well, it did keep the teachers employed, and the teachers do make up a third of the Democratic convention delegates.
Is that a positive?
Van Jones? Is he a success? Hey, he’s a Yale Law grad.
In fact, POTUS likes the Harvards and Yales way too much? POTUS has a weakness for the blessed establishment.
“What does it take?” It takes more than iconoclasm and herding on the web.
Mrs. Pelosi’s wrath needs a name. The Money Wreckers. The Soft Money Crowd. The Unsound Dollar Congress. Just the Unsounders.
Trillions and trillions and right back to where we started, Fannie and Freddie and no job growth.
Now Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner tells us that the government money has done enough to rescue the economy, it is time for private investors to begin again.
Can’t make this stuff up. We’ll be there, Tim, right after we get back from Vegas, cleaned out and happy, since Vegas is a much better investment than what you’ve made of the unsound dollar economy.
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