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Nancy With the Laughing Face by PITT DICKEY “Your Direction Is Our Direction” • Pick Up • Delivery • Courier Service • Mobile Notary •Transportation Personal and Business Service Available! R&J Rip N Run Errand/Courier Service LLC Proudly Serving Fayetteville, Ft. Bragg, Spring Lake, Hope Mills and Surrounding Areas CONTACT US TODAY TO FIND OUT WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU! 910.578.1855 It’s offi cial. The Democratic party has changed its symbol from the donkey to the lemming. The Democrats are heading off the cliff following the orders of lead lemming Nancy Pelosi as she devolves from Speaker of the House to House Minority Leader. Assuming that lemmings squeak as they jump off cliffs, that would make Nancy the the Squeaker of the House. Sixty Democratic members of the House were swept into the dust bin of history in the recent election under Nancy’s leadership. The remains of the House Democratic caucus elected her their leader once again in their smaller, purer and more distilled cognac of a political party. If you keep doing the same thing and expect to get a different result, then by defi nition you must be a Congressional Democrat. President Obi’s party could have used some more of those patriotic multiple voting dead voters from Chicago in the last election. Unfortunately the Zombie voter bloc must have all been in the crypt watching The Walking Dead. They forgot to vote this time causing a Republican sweep. The President’s speech the day after the election reminded me of Offi cer Barbrady on South Park, “Nothing to see here. Move along.” Colorfully, history repeats itself. Nancy, the former Speaker of the House, is a charismatic political leader from San Francisco. Homicidal religious nut, Jim Jones, the former leader of the Peoples’ Temple, was a charismatic cult leader from San Francisco. Take a ride in the Way Back machine with Sherman and Mr. Peabody to November 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana. Mr. Jones tried to create a workers’ paradise in the middle of the Guyana jungle. When things didn’t work out so well at Jonestown, Big Jim ordered his followers to commit suicide. Nine hundred parish members drank the arsenic-laced Kool Aid® and receded into the dark depths of the hereafter. Add three decades to Jim Jones’s November 1978 experience and Nancy’s leadership seems to take on the same outcome for the House Democrats in November 2010. Nancy tried to create a workers’ paradise in Washington, D.C., and it didn’t work out so well. Big Nancy ordered her 6 UCW NOVEMBER 24-30, 2010 followers to commit political suicide by drinking the arsenic laced Kool Aid® to keep her as their leader. She apparently has the same ability to cloud the thought processes of otherwise sentient human beings that Jim Jones possessed in the depths of the jungle. Nancy is the gift that keeps on giving to Republicans. She united Republicans the way George W. Bush united Democrats. As a Republican told me, Nancy gives Republicans someone they already know they are supposed to hate. Remember the “two minute hate” in George Orwell’s classic laugh riot book, 1984? As party discipline, Big Brother’s followers had to watch a daily two-minute propaganda fi lm featuring the leader of the opposition and then yell their hatred at the screen. Does this sound like something viewers of Fox TV might being doing with Nancy Pelosi every night until 2012? The Democrats choosing Nancy to lead them out of their recent Swamp of Shellac seems a bit odd. Did the Trojans choose as their leader the genius who convinced them to bring the Greek’s Trojan horse into their city? Did the Confederate Army chose Pickett to lead another charge after the Gettysburg debacle? If Custer had survived Little Big Horn, would he have been chosen to lead the 7th Cavalry again? Would Promise Keepers pick former Presidential candidate John Edwards to lead a seminar on marital fi delity? The non-Republicans will have to rely on the Republicans to once again shoot themselves in their right foot. Led by Sarah Palin and South Carolina Senator Jim DeMented, the Republican Anger Grizzlies may well make being a Democrat respectable again. The R’s will overreach like they always do. They’ll take the country into double plus ungood areas that will scare the independent voters back into Democrat land. Then it starts all over again. It turned out that hope may not have been much of a plan, but anger as a plan doesn’t seem very likely to succeed either. PITT DICKEY, Contributing Writer. COMMENTS? Editor@upandcomingweekly.com. WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM NEW COMPANY!