Reflections on chicanery, the enthusiasm gap and toilets

  It doesn't really matter that the leftists were proven completely wrong and specious last weekend. 
  It doesn't matter that the politicians continue to cast aspersions on tea partiers, to call them hateful names and accuse them of all sorts of mischief, chicanery, racism and vileness.
  It doesn't matter because we aren't monolithic. 
  As "diverse" as that crowd was supposed to be last weekend, it wasn't. 
  At all. 
  Because diversity isn't about color of skin; it's about thought. 
  And as we've seen time after time, leftists seek to make everyone conform to their way of thinking. In environmentalism, in education, in how we run our lives, in government...on and on and on.
  Investors.com has a great perspective on the rally, also noting Gateway Pundit's observation that c-Span used a Beck rally flag to advertise the commie rally on Saturday. Read it here:

Election '10: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but in the case of the "One Nation" rally it was also the sincerest form of futility. Despite the usual media puffery, this cycle's enthusiasm gap was clearly visible.

  Note also that Trumka, one of the speakers and the head of the AFL-CIO, who is bidding on class warfare to make his points, makes a quarter of a million dollars a year himself. 
  Students were offered class credit to attend the rally on Saturday. No wonder everyone left early. That seems like a legit use of class time.

  Meanwhile out in Nevada, a suspect tea party candidate secretly taped Sharron Angle asking him to drop out, like that was a bad thing or something, so Harry Reid wouldn't win.

   Of course, the White House could offer a guy like Joe Sestak a plumb job to drop out, but that wasn't wrong.

  And the media is up to their old tricks, conspiring with the democrat party to convince our side (not REPUBLICAN) not to show up to vote hoping to demoralize the folks who haven't usually been activists. Read about it at Red State:

The New York Times ran an article over the weekend that the House of Representatives is still not in the hands of the GOP. A Newsweek survey came out with an oddity of a generic ballot answer. Gallup has been jumping all over the place.

Had I a show, I’d say “roll the tape.” Instead, you’ll have to settle for this.

  Last and for a laugh (however maudlin), Powerline dissects liberals' need to control our lives through the types of light bulbs we can buy, the amount of water our toilet flushes (Thanks a lot, W., that we have to flush TWICE), and the types of showerheads we can buy. 
  They can't pass a budget, but they can write 2,000 page bills that shape our lives without anyone even reading the whole thing. 
  They can spend $400,000 per job and claim that it was a great bargain. 
  They can talk down their noses to us, commit crimes and laugh about it and put the screws to us "small people" out here and ridicule us when we get angry. Read it here at Powerline. It's one of their best:

Actually, the time to take a page has come. The administrative state has inserted its big paws into our houses, from the toilet bowl to the light socket. Now if it would just stretch those paws from the one to the other at the same time, we might begin to recapture the spirit of '76.

                ~So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.