Victory Totally Blows, Man!

As further evidence that the liberal establishment doesn't quite know what to do with the country, now that it has been handed to them on a (somewhat tarnished) silver platter, we have the spectacle of -- right here in Pittsburgh! -- President-for-life Bill Clinton admonishing an assemblage of liberal on-line activists not to relax -- no, not even for a moment! Because all of those gains, fought for with such exertion for so many years, could be lost! (No mention of why Obama has brought great new hope to the land, whereas his administration didn't, you'll notice.) This pow-wow was held in the same convention center where the G-20 meets next month, and I'm sure they felt they were raising the "vibrational level" of the place to the proper high level (whereas I suspect what they were actually doing was making much more work for the restroom maintenance staff). But Clinton, looking more like The Picture of Dorian Gray with each successive public appearance, sounded dire warnings about causes like health care, global warming, and the economy... and another speaker pointed out that Republicans, of all people, "have captured the energy and intensity that Democrats had in the last two election cycles" -- which is liberal-speak for "These people are fighting for their way of life and the survival of their country -- and isn't that just what you'd expect from such a bunch of 'haters'?"

To add to all of this unease, it even appears that certain members of the American left are starting to get impatient with the slow pace of Obama's transformation of the U.S. into a people's republic. Among the quotes: "We've been too polite", and "Where is our change?" (It's right there in your hand, you idiot!) But the most profound comment was as follows: "The online progressive movement is in a funny place now that its party is in power." Yeah! "Funny" -- also known as, time to take a bath, put on some decent clothes, crawl up out of your parents' basement, and start acting like an adult, now that you've been put in charge. No more taking to the streets... no more late-night cell meetings... no more "acting up"... in short, no more fun! Darn! And here I thought "activism" was all about getting up in the face of "the man". But when "the man" in the White House is our own guy, whose face do we get up in? Ay, there's the rub... and it's true, outside of the inner circle of Obamaites, who most assuredly know what they're doing and have a sense of mission, and are working as fast as is humanly possible, the rabble... the lumpen proletariat that put Obama into office... are suddenly rebels without a cause, and clueless. And I don't think that any amount of rabble-rousing by Clinton is going to change that, or give them focus.

Ah yes -- the sound of many liberal heads exploding, like bubble wrap in the hands of a five-year-old. There are people in this world who will always be on the outside looking in -- simply because that is the only situation with which they feel comfortable. Actually having to run a country is too much like real work... it involves compromise, and dealing with the unenlightened. No more protests! No more bonfires, or linked-arm circles, or "We Shall Overcome"! Ah, what a world, what a world! But that is the inheritance of the liberals, and of the left, and of even the most radical of the left -- since they have all invested heavily in Obama, and they all expect him to fulfill their fondest dreams. What they don't know... what has not dawned on them as yet... is that their hero has long-since sold out to the Regime, and that Regime considers them to be just so many squirming maggots. And, in fact, Clinton himself knows the score in this regard, since he too was made to carry the Regime's yoke, but hey, a paid gig is a paid gig, and even better if he gets to take money from the same chumps who supported all of his campaigns and got, basically, squat in return. Ah yes -- it's good to be king, even if all of your subjects make the characters in "The Wizard of Id" look like, um, Rhodes Scholars.