Which Way Is The Wind Blowing?

Not Al Gore’s way. Remember how George Bush brought Katrina on New Orleans because global warming, for which he was responsible (much as Ronald Reagan killed people with AIDS and crack), was causing more and worse hurricanes? Well, as with so much else in the canon of the Carbon Cult, that turns out to be so much hot air.

Not Newt Gingrich’s way. He chose to ride a RINO, but the message is getting too clear to miss for those on the front lines: more people are demanding an actual opposition to the current regime in Washington than will tolerate “Democrat Lite” as they have in the past. If the Republican Party declines to answer the demands, it will not be tolerated.

Not the way of the feather-bedders in Congress. People are learning, and may remember, that each “stimulus” job, even the ones allegedly “saved”, cost $160,000, and each “clunker” $24,000, in future tax money that will have to be paid with interest. This is a reminder of the true purpose of such handout schemes: to provide excuses and cover for putting political allies and operatives on the payroll in administrative positions that become entrenched feather beds, stuffed with comfy perks and benefits and protected by powerful union patronage.

Not Hillary Clinton’s way? The prevailing wind remains squarely at her back, putting her on course to mount a powerful primary challenge to President Obama in the (allegedly apocalyptic) year of 2012. Still, she may be failing to notice the import of the preceding paragraph, if her remarks as reported from Pakistan are any sign. Paraphrasing one of Ronald Reagan’s classics may be OK, but not if you are praising what he so effectively mocked.

Not the trial lawyers’ way (speaking of Hillary)? They’ve had a 2,000 page bill written and rewritten specifically to remake the entire health care system for their benefit, but those who actually treat, save, and cure folks may not be willing to keep playing second fiddle to a profession that’s earned a reputation as parasites and con-artists.

Not the way of the Aristocratick Combination in general? That remains to be seen; a year is a long time, and people may remember the contempt they have been shown by the czars and Marie Antoinettes, and the absurdities that seem almost to require drugs as an explanation - or they may not. They may instead, yet again, be narcotized by bread and circuses, by the Mephistophelian lure of something for nothing, grab now and make somebody else pay later.

Neither Al Gore, nor James Hansen, nor indeed Horatius can tell which way the wind will be blowing in a year’s time, but truth will out, and it is an ill wind that blows none any good. More cynically, if the dwindling and threatened number who produce wealth and pay taxes fail to “throw the bums out” next November, one might as well eat, drink, and make merry, for tomorrow we may face the Death Panel…

Horatius