Obama’s Last Chance, by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #199

December 6, 2010 Mike Gold 28 Comments

In December 1995, the Republican Congress shut down the federal government because President Clinton wouldn’t cave into their demands. It was popularly seen as a childish stunt, one that wound up helping Clinton get reelected.

Clinton waited them out for 22 days and then agreed to submit a seven-year balanced budget plan that was seen as his greatest accomplishment in the White House. Republicans conceded his budget would eliminate all deficits over those seven years. Of course, that budget went up in smoke four years later when the Republicans seized the White House.

Today the Republicans are threatening not to permit any bill to pass in the Congress unless President Obama agrees to a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest two percent of Americans. They can wait the President out, since they’ll have a majority in January. Of course, Obama can then veto the bill and the Republicans don’t have the votes to override.

This would require Barak Obama to possess balls that are roughly the size of Bill Clinton’s. Thus far, we have yet to see any evidence of such testicular magnitude. This might very well be Obama’s last chance to hold on to his constituency, and I’m hoping for the best.

The fact is, our president is looking like a fool. For two years now he’s been bargaining against himself, offering unasked-for concessions to the Republicans who therefore gave nothing back except petulant obstinacy. Then they stuck Obama with the blame for their economic mess, managed to eek out a majority in Congress, and make that look like a mammoth victory.

That’s because the Democrats are a bunch of paranoid cowards who would rather get reelected by not standing for anything than do their duty.

By the time this sees print, the grandstanding might very well be over and Obama might already have caved in. I hope not, but I don’t see the Republicans going along with the middle class tax break without getting serious sugar for their suzerains. They’ve got two years to convince white middle-income male voters that those homosexual non-Christian Muslim Mexican socialist niggers that call themselves Democrats are responsible for taking their jobs. As recent history has shown us, they are very good at that.

Barak, you are my lantsman. We are both community activists from Chicago. Our worldview is hardly dissimilar. Your man Rahm grew up in my neighborhood. Hell, we were both born on August 4th and we’re both left-handed and some of the music on your iPod is also on my iPhone.  But I’m twelve years older than you and I’ve been around the block a few more times than you, so please think about this.

Ecclesiastes tells us everything has its time. That noted Republican philosopher Alice Cooper tells us “No more mister nice guy.” Barak, my lantsman, my brother, it is time.

Fellow-traveler, anarcho-syndicalist and www.ComicMix.com editor-in-Chief Mike Gold performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking bizarro music and blather radio show on America’s pop culture channel The Point, www.getthepointradio.com, every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, replayed three times during the week (check the website above for times). Likewise, his Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mind political and cultural rants pop up each and every day at the same venue.