Reflections From a Murky Pond

Whenever anything is dying the vultures start to circle, looking to garner to free meal off the carcass of whatever animal or person that has died. Many times, if the victim is weak enough, the vultures don’t even wait for their victim to expire before feasting upon it.

Here’s a YouTube video showing these horrid but necessary scavengers in action: Feeding Vultures

As gruesome as that is in nature, it’s even worse in the American political sphere. The vultures there don’t just feed on the victim; they feed on the victim’s damaged position to gain a free political advantage - most often at the expense of decent American citizens across the nation.

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s political career - and hopefully his life as a free man with full enfranchisement as a US citizen - is coming to a painful and bloody end. Blagojevich’s demise is self-inflicted; his rampant, open and unrepentant corruption and criminality has caught up with him.

Much like political “suicide bomber” though, Blago intends to take a bunch of people with him.

Call The Vultures To The Feast

The Democrat controlled US Senate has boldly, plainly, and surprisingly succinctly stated that they will not seat whoever Gov. Blagojevich appoints to replace Barack Obama as the junior Senator from Illinois. Originally Blago seemed to accept that, but the vultures - blackfaced vultures in this case - in all their reeking and foul glory were already circling the doomed Governor.

Blagojevich saw the nasty possibilities of these vultures and quickly reversed his decision to not attempt to appoint anyone to fill the IL Senate seat recently vacated by President-elect Obama.

So when Roland Burris expressed an ongoing interest in the Senate appointment, despite the taint that Blagojevich’s appointment would smear upon it, Blago saw his chance to attack the Democratic party that had wisely abandoned him.

Using Burris much as jihadi would use an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), the Governor appointed him to the Senate seat, putting the Senate in the position of having to surrender to political terrorism or deny Burris the appointment and thereby de facto exclude any Blacks from the current Senate.

Burris isn’t so much an agenda driven political operative as he is an opportunist. After a long political career that stalled out unexpectedly, he has realized that this is his last best shot at regaining political power.

Remember, this is the man who’s had a mausoleum built for himself in a south side cemetery with his accomplishments carved in stone under the words “Trail Blazer.”

The next vulture to come winging in to the feast was Rep. Bobby Rush - a particularly vile political scavenger. Rush, co-founder of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, was quick to demand that Obama’s vacated Senate seat must be filled based on racial criteria. In his limited view a Black must be given the seat no matter what.

It took Rush no time at all to start squawking about race.

The aging radical immediately took center stage in the circus that Blagojevich created and began playing the race card for all it was worth. The former army deserter and convicted criminal, Rush started with the ever popular lynching reference:

I would ask you not to hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointor. Separate, if you will, the appointee from the appointor. Roland Burris is worthy.

Nice. There’s nothing quite like having ranting Black politician trying to stir up race hate by using such charged terms as “hang” and “lynch.” But Rush is much like syphilis; he’s the unwanted gift that keeps on giving. He continued…

This is a matter of national importance. There are no African- Americans in the Senate, and I don’t think that anyone — any U.S. senator, who’s sitting in the Senate, right now, wants to go on record to deny one African-American for being seated in the U.S. Senate. I don’t think they want to go on record doing that. And so, I intend to take that argument to the Congressional Black Caucus.

So the “Deputy Minister of Defense“‘ for the Black Panthers, Bobby rush, made an explicit attempt to recast the situation in solely racialist terms. And then he added a threat, as is so typical of his sort.  He tries to say that any senator who opposed Burris’ seating as the junior senator from Illinois — for any reason whatsoever — desires an all-white body in the US Senate.  His mouthings claims that the Senate  are racists or, at the very least, uncaring of the supposed need for diversity ,and are no friends of minority Americans.

And yet this vulture still wasn’t done spewing his racist, Black Power filth across the media. This morning, Dec. 31st, 2008, on CBS, Boby Rush  compared the possibility of the U.S. Senate refusing to seat Burris to Orval Faubus, George Wallace and Bull Connor blocking the progress of integration and civil rights.

MAGGIE RODRIGUEZ: Yesterday we heard you say they shouldn’t hang and lynch the appointee to punish the appointor.  But do you believe this is the way the only African-American senator should be seated, tainted rightly or not by a scandal, and against the objections of most of his own party?

BOBBY RUSH: Well, let me just say this.  You know, the recent history of our nation has shown us that sometimes there can be individuals and there can be situations where schoolchildren, where you had officials standing in the doorway of schoolchildren.  I’m talking about Orville Faubus back in 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas.  I’m talking about George Wallace.  Bull Connors [sic]. And I’m sure that the U.S. Senate don’t want to see themselves placed in the same position.

Oh yeah - the vultures are circling and looking to feed of of Blagojevich’s political corpse. Sadly, some of them are a particularly disease-ridden variety of scavenger who want to feed off of a lot more than just Illinois’ felonious soon-to-be ex-Governor.

Republican National Committee (RNC) candidate Chip Saltsman’s Christmas greeting to RNC committee members included a 41-track CD along with a note to national committee members.  The candidate the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee’s gift has garnered him the “focused attention” of the drive-by media and the anger of the Left.

The CD mocks the Liberals with songs such as: John Edwards’ Poverty Tour, Wright Place, Wrong Pastor, Love Client #9, Ivory and Ebony, and The Star Spanglish Banner, amongst other works of satire and parody.

Of course none of the tracks listed above are what has drawn the ire of the Left. The media has focused the Liberals’ attention and outrage on a single track on the CD, Barack The Magic Negro. A parody of Puff The Magic Dragon made somewhat famous - or infamous - by conservative radio host, Rush Limbaugh.

In their now usual manner the MSM has painted Mr. Saltsman and the Republican Party as racist due to this ditty. What they’ve - of course - failed to do is provide either the lyrics of the offending song or the context within which it was created. They felt that sensationalizing the title alone would suit their purposes better.

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President-elect Barack Obama is drawing a fair amount of flak from various and disparate single-issue groups over his Cabinet appointments. Multiple special interest groups are complaining that they’re not appropriately represented in Obama’s incoming Cabinet.

The Feminists - in the form of the National Organization of Women (NOW) - are bitching about President-elect Obama’s Cabinet choices. They’re complaining that he only appointed five (5) women to his Cabinet.

The Blacks - in the form of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) - are ranting about President-elect Obama’s Cabinet choices. They’re complaining that he only appointed four (4) Blacks to his Cabinet.

The Latinos - in various informal forms since they don’t have a central or primary PAC - are railing  against President-elect Obama’s Cabinet choices.  They’re complaining that he only appointed three (3) Latinos to his Cabinet.

The Homosexuals - again in various informal forms since they don’t have a central or primary PAC - are whining about President-elect Obama’s Cabinet choices. They’re complaining that he didn’t appoint any openly queer people at all to his Cabinet.

Now, as any regular reader of Reflections From A Murky Pond already knows, I’m fairly close to the last American one would expect to defend Obama from his detractors or praise his actions. But just because I think that electing Obama was a horrible - and possibly nationally suicidal - mistake doesn’t mean that I’m going to side with special interest groups who are attacking him for no good purpose.

There are fourteen (14) Cabinet Secretaries. Of that 14 Obama has selected: 5 women, 4 Blacks, and 3 Latinos. That’s a quite diverse grouping of gender and races. Of course there is some overlap in the demographics of Obama’s Cabinet selections, cases such as Obama’s new Secretary of Labor, Rep. Hilda L. Solis, who is a Latino woman.

What I see is a bunch of single issue, self-serving enemies of American democracy and American meritocracy who are puling about not getting enough of their respective sorts into key positions in the US government. President-elect Obama has drawn their ire because he has apparently made a certain amount of effort to place the best qualified - for his agenda at least - people into the Cabinet positions. In other words, he’s doing something right!

Don’t get me wrong; I dsilike most of Obama’s Cabinet picks as well. They’re mostly from the Far Left and many seem to be Global Warming dupes.

So Obama has turked off a lot of people in the US with his Cabinet selections. Conservatives are unhappy about- but unsurprised by the political ideology of his Cabinet, and various groups who identify themselves solely or primarily by gender, race, or sexual proclivities are unhappy because Obama didn’t seemingly meet their expectations for increased power under his regime.

I hate to say it, but anytime a Liberal President declines to appease these groups in favor of appointing who he thinks is best qualified for the job he’s probably doing the right thing.