America is tranforming. Six weeks! In only six weeks, Obama has brought Congress to the world of Twitter and Facebook. Makeover is here. It's happening. It's now! Your ticket for this ride comes with citizenship, so don't get left behind. There is a new President, and a new Congress. There are new infrastructure programs that are not just dreams; they are real and for once, funded. There is a new capitalism; note that capitalism is not dead, it is being repaired and readied to proceed with new freshness and vigor in a better, more coherent, global economic context with an updated American insfrastructure and new industries.
Despite what anyone might say against President Obama, he is very much on the job. Obama is taking care of business no matter what kind of off-the-wall cant comes from the GOP. New Financial Rules are on the way. There has been a heavy investment of energy and time and it is already brnging benefits.
Six weeks! Even Sen. McCain, who last November could not press the buttons on a Blackberry, is now tweating. The weatherization of America is underway. Green Energy programs are starting. The country is changed and emerging from a long tunnel of complacency, self-neglect, lack of innovation and paralysis to a new era.
Showing posts with label GOP transformation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GOP transformation. Show all posts
Friday, March 13, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
GOP Morphing: The Child Krohn - More to Come?
Today, for first time, I saw and listened to the GOP child-political-"expert", Jonathan Krohn (JK), via HuffingtonPost. 13 years old?!??! JK spoke at last week's Conservative Political Action (CPAC) meeting. One does not like to disrespect children who should evoke nurturing and similar positive responses, but JK comes off like a Bible Belt child preacher at a revival. Lingering weirdness after the vid. Regret peeking through that fence hole. But since I didn't put up Jonathan for adult examination, and considering the seriousness of the subject he speaks on, the economic crisis and conservatism, I have to desribe his effect as wonderment akin to listening to a trained parrot. Others write the same with better phrasing.
More the issue: is this how "unusual" (bad, strange,...) things are in the GOP? Are we to listen to and equate a sharp witted child to a George Will? Hardly. Are we to equate this child to a Russ (Limbaugh)?...Hmmm, well...maybe this works, indeed,..reversal of this logic leads to 'Limbaugh is just a witty child', am apt label, imho. But to be serious, are we to believe the depths of conservative political philosophy pondered over historical spans by learned adults have emerged in a child's voice at a revival tent venue, the CPAC conference? (Hmmm..Limbaugh the child again.)
(Miles of symbolic blank space here to transmit a loss for words, but here's a try.)
I think my unsettledness comes from suspecting the new GOP base takes this child seriously? It seems they do. I believe in and enjoy child prodigies in music, but life is not a set of instructional or compositional rules. Life is complex and subtle, at least to me, don't really know about you or others but I suspect you're all with me. Never heard of a child philosopher but i am not a student of philosophy. Name one child prodigy in oil painting...maybe there is one which raises the issue of what is art vs technique..on the other hand even elephants paint nowadays...let this go.
A clue to the JK appearance is as I posited in an earlier blog (Feb 26, this blog): to the GOP the child represents not a child but a label, in this case a label announcing the rural GOP tradition of the a religious spirit channel through the biblical voice of a child.
What further demonstrations: of spirit speaking, channeling, calling out, ....might come from GOP morphing contortions? Probably some prize winners will emerge, but to guess what's coming ....the cost to travel to that land of the imagination is too high(hangovers, etc).
As I posited in an earlier blog, the GOP is likely to take on unusual shapes as it morphs along to where ever it will end up (Feb 26, '09).
A third ring to the GOP circus is bound to come...maybe more...it's only March 1, '09.
More the issue: is this how "unusual" (bad, strange,...) things are in the GOP? Are we to listen to and equate a sharp witted child to a George Will? Hardly. Are we to equate this child to a Russ (Limbaugh)?...Hmmm, well...maybe this works, indeed,..reversal of this logic leads to 'Limbaugh is just a witty child', am apt label, imho. But to be serious, are we to believe the depths of conservative political philosophy pondered over historical spans by learned adults have emerged in a child's voice at a revival tent venue, the CPAC conference? (Hmmm..Limbaugh the child again.)
(Miles of symbolic blank space here to transmit a loss for words, but here's a try.)
I think my unsettledness comes from suspecting the new GOP base takes this child seriously? It seems they do. I believe in and enjoy child prodigies in music, but life is not a set of instructional or compositional rules. Life is complex and subtle, at least to me, don't really know about you or others but I suspect you're all with me. Never heard of a child philosopher but i am not a student of philosophy. Name one child prodigy in oil painting...maybe there is one which raises the issue of what is art vs technique..on the other hand even elephants paint nowadays...let this go.
A clue to the JK appearance is as I posited in an earlier blog (Feb 26, this blog): to the GOP the child represents not a child but a label, in this case a label announcing the rural GOP tradition of the a religious spirit channel through the biblical voice of a child.
What further demonstrations: of spirit speaking, channeling, calling out, ....might come from GOP morphing contortions? Probably some prize winners will emerge, but to guess what's coming ....the cost to travel to that land of the imagination is too high(hangovers, etc).
As I posited in an earlier blog, the GOP is likely to take on unusual shapes as it morphs along to where ever it will end up (Feb 26, '09).
A third ring to the GOP circus is bound to come...maybe more...it's only March 1, '09.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
In Soberness: Michael, Joe TNP, Sarah, Bobby, Michele
In soberness, PerchedEye is keenly observing the quintet icons of the current GOP. Comical as they might appear to some (DEMS and sane people), they do represent what is happening right now in the GOP. They catch attention. Are they truly leaders, or are they "just" leaping, grinning,cheerleaders at a time when GOP has lost a lot of ground? Whatever symbolism one attaches to them, the quintet are reaching out, sometimes "out there" to far and strange shores, but neverthless reaching out at a time when "traditional" GOP leadership seems paralyzed, lost, missing or just stunned.
What we seem to see is change-process, which in GOP style can take the form of awkward disjointed steps like a put-together Frankenstein trying to coordinate unfamiliar body parts that haven't met before. But be careful, DEMS, the quintet is morphing the GOP base. Are these guys serious? PerchedEye personally feels they have to be laughing at themselves, but the fact is they are loose, energetic and the base is swinging right into line. Perchedeye feels the quintet will not survive the long haul to 2010 but they will have helped the GOP to transform itself to.... something different.
What we seem to see is change-process, which in GOP style can take the form of awkward disjointed steps like a put-together Frankenstein trying to coordinate unfamiliar body parts that haven't met before. But be careful, DEMS, the quintet is morphing the GOP base. Are these guys serious? PerchedEye personally feels they have to be laughing at themselves, but the fact is they are loose, energetic and the base is swinging right into line. Perchedeye feels the quintet will not survive the long haul to 2010 but they will have helped the GOP to transform itself to.... something different.
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