Rush Limbaugh has befuddled the mainstream media with his Operation Chaos and he is (as heard on the opening of his program for Friday May 9, 2008) having more fun than a wealthy cowboy on a Saturday night in a Nevada brothel.
Rush explained his game plan to the bamboozled media by saying that he wants complete and utter chaos for the Democrat Party. Rush fed them the information that el Rushbo wants the Democrats to have consternation reign supreme until the Democratic National Convention in August.
Journalists, who envy Rush's earning power and influence, have jumped to the assumption that he meant exactly what he said. If Rush wants utter chaos did it ever occur to them that he might not mean exactly what he says?
The paid pundits are supposed to provide their readers with an assessment of the most likely scenarios that could happen and, on a slow news day, some of the less likely possibilities. So do they see the possibility that if Rush means exactly what he says, then maybe he and some of his wealthy conservative pals could bankroll a third party run by Hillary? Are the talking heads running a ditto machine for Republican Talking points or are they thinking things through?
(Some wealthy folks call a million dollar "chump change.')
If Hillary does a Ross Perot, things could get very chaotic.
Rush would urge his dittoheads to circulate petitions to get Hillary on the ballot as a third party candidate and then urge folks to vote for her in November. Remember he has said he doesn't like McCain, so if no one candidate gets enough electoral college votes to win the election, what happens then? The House of Representatives selects the new President. Is that the lame duck House or the newly elected lineup? If it is the lame duck House that does the work, then what happens if they don't select a clear winner by Inauguration Day? Do you suppose that the current occupant of the White House could be persuaded to remain in office beyond Inauguration Day until the new President has been selected? If it last beyond Inauguration Day, does the new House just sit around while the old House selects the new President?
Wouldn't the Supreme Court stand by to settle any disputes? (Gee, which candidate would they favor?)
At that point, Operation Chaos would have succeeded beyond most people's wildest expectations (with a few notable exceptions [such as Karl Rove?] and a blogger or two, who, like Col. Kurtz (Marlin Brando) in "Apocalypse Now," are "really out there.").
Why would Senator Clinton agree to sabotage the Democrat Party like that? Could she subscribe to the "So?" philosophy that is running rampant these days?
If Rush gets Operation Chaos going "full speed ahead," then bloggers could join in the spirit of things by injecting a totally irrelevant item into the middle of a column lamenting the fact that folks who died fighting for Democracy in World War II, might feel a bit cheated by seeing the voting process subverted for fascistic reasons.
[Why is it that Hillary can get folks to donate to a lost cause and a sincere blogger can't get a source for Ford Cobra replicas [1] to lend him one of their vehicles for a few weeks of blogging and opinion-gathering?]
While Senator Clinton and Rush collaborate on subverting Democracy (in the name of racism), some folks (called mainstream media) seem fixated on useless information [2].
The thought that some highly paid professional journalists permit themselves to be sidetracked by the Reverend Wright "red herring," and leave it to bloggers to give America a heads-up about the horrible implications of Operation Chaos is sickening.
What good will a flag lapel pin do you if George W. Bush is still President (while Congress wrangles over electoral college matters) on the day after Inauguration Day? Did the Germans ever get to vote on changing from a democracy to a chancellor-for-life?
Some years ago attempts were made to engage Hunter S. Thompson into betting on a third term for George W. Bush. Since Hunter has gone to the great press room in the sky, being able to say "I tried to warn you" will be a very ferric victory, if it comes to that.
Write to someone (public editor at the New York Times?) and demand real analysis and not recycled Republican talking points.
Aren't the ground rules for Operation Chaos the same as the rules for a knife fight? I.e. there are no rules!
The selection of the Democratic Party nominee is approaching gridlock. The Congress has been very unsuccessful in taking back the power to wage war from the President. It isn't difficult to imagine that letting President George W. Bush's term in office "go into extra innings," while Congress deals with a gridlocked electoral college solution next February, will be an appealing alternative for some well known conservative talk show hosts.
If the 2008 Presidential Election unfolds in this manner, expect to see a great many more columns here about sports car races, beatnik travels, and photography because if electoral college gridlock occurs, strict press censorship won't be that much more of a stretch for the dittoheads.
Col. Kurtz said it best: "It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means." Ditto for those who do not ken what "chaos" means.
Conflicted? The disk jockey wants to play the Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention song "Take Off Your Clothes When You Dance" song for Mother's Day, but he also wants to note that Eddie Arnold passed away this week and play one of his songs. Earlier in the week, the disk jockey came across the information that on Eddie Arnold's last album one of the folks who got a song writing credit was Audie Murphy. Murphy won the Medal of Honor in World War II, became a leading actor, and wrote some country songs.
At press time the WLJ fact checker was still working on the name of the song (or songs) which Murphy helped write. Unfortunately the WLJ home office doesn't have a Research Department as big and efficient as the one Playboy does. (They not only have a research department, it is prominently featured in a new book [3].) You do the best you can with whatcha got.
The disk jockey will play the aforementioned Zappa song and (just for Senator Clinton) Eddie Arnold's "Shame On You."
We'll dance our way out of here. Have a gridlock free week
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