Okay.  Wait.  Is this a suggestion of Strong Armed Tactics from the notorious Hitlerite, Nancy Pelosi?

Political P.S.: Following the spirited ceremony organized by Protocol Director Matthew Goudeau, he was approached by a man handing out flyers.
This petitioner introduced himself as Summer Shields, a Democratic candidate for the Eighth Congressional District, which has long been controlled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Considering that Pelosi took over that very seat from the Burton dynasty, Goudeau wisely advised the would-be candidate: “I’d be careful who you hand that flyer to in this crowd.”

From one former political opponent on the ballot — Cindy Sheehan — to another one — Summer Shields, a suggestion of trolling for … support?
gkgeger on March 24th, 2010 10:38 am
Our government & representatives DO NOT work for the people of the US. They instead work for Wall Street Financial interests & shareholders. The purpose & job of our government is to care for and govern the people. It’s job is NOT to care for & govern Wall Street. Our governments job is to Govern. NOT MAKE MONEY! We MUST return our government back to the people and we must support leadership that will take us there. Please support LaRouche. LaRouchePac.comm

annoying4fun on March 24th, 2010 7:45 am
you are right about everything until you get to La Rouche.

gkgreger on March 24th, 2010 6:47 am
You agree with my ideas. Most of my ideas come from LaRouche. I give them to you and you agree. But then you disagree with Larouche? Most people in society are afraid to support leaders that would dare to disagree with the ruling class. It’s dangerous. You might be punished. Most people are afraid to go against popular opinion & just go along to get along. It’s safe. Rise up above your earthly fears & seek to live with the truth. YouTube: LPACTV Audio Preview, The LaRouche Plan

I suppose one could explain how the ideas he “picked up from larouche” are better found elsewhere, keeping your ideals better in tact.  I don’t know the implications of “rising above your earthly fears“.  That train in the guise of this person seems to devolve over this direction, actually.

LaRouche charged that N.M. Rothschild & Sons and its Inter-Alpha Group partners, including The Royal Bank of Scotland, ING, and Spanish giant Banco Santander are bankrupt, and stuffed with fraudulent assets, to prop up the value of which they are looting Brazil through a carry trade which last year netted them average returns of 25 per cent—paid out of the hides of the Brazilian people—in the same way the same gang, and for the same reason, coordinated the brutal looting of post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s through privatisation, which gutted Russia’s industrial base and reduced its population by millions.

And on around into this curious debate.  (Or is it here?)  Here we go from Larouche and Kesha Rogers against the Marxists, to Ron Paul and Peter Schiff as the Only Honest folks to… Paul Harvey against the Jewish Media???

SCLARK2112 March 20th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Both parties are 100% RESPONSIBLE for the DECLINE and FALL of America. Throw the BUMS OUT NOW
!Bush and Obama should both have been IMPEACHED. While it’s too late to IMPEACH Bush, we still have time to IMPEACH the Marxist Obama and there is a movement underway to do just that. Google KESHA ROGERS TEXAS.

hyylo  March 20th, 2010 at 10:12 am
Ron Paul is the only honest person in congress.
Peter Schiff is also honest.

gustafus21 March 20th, 2010 at 12:26 pm Paul Harvey is the only person who explained this for me…
If 14 trillion dollars vanished from the economy… the government can inject 14 trillion into the economy in the form of targeted relief … before we get inflation.
NOBODY wants us to know this… because the gangsters of business want it both ways
.they want the bailouts… if the money goes to healthcare – they grab the megaphones of Jewish media and yell INFLATION!!

I give up.
Okay.  Interlude to think up campaign ads for the trio of Summer Shields, Kesha Rogers (another story from an Israeli publication of the local party’s disowning of her), and Rachel Brown.  Maybe a jingle will do?  Something up-beat and up-tempo, like this?

The campaigns continue, as we try to figure out what media they’re campaigning on.  We know the good old Jack Stockwell program, seen in the links down here.  Apparently Harley Schlanger made an appearance on behalf of Kesha Rogers here. 
Listen if you must.  I’m curious to fact-check this release.

Very similar reports from LaRouche Political Action Committee organizers in two very different regions of the U.S. indicate the new phase of the mass strike now opened by Congress’s capitulation to Obama’s Nazi health care bill. LaRouche PAC organizers on the streets of a northern New Jersey town, and in front of a Post Office in a town just south of Detroit, Michigan were swamped yesterday, all day, throughout the day, by angry Americans, looking for leadership, and ready to act.

In Michigan, LaRouche PAC impeachment signs in front of the post office, calling on people to pull over to help stop Obama, had people standing in line, often 5-6 at a time, waiting to talk to organizers, and/or sign up and contribute. Most of the people coming around did not come to the post office, but came to talk to our organizers. People continued to line up after the post office was closed. Organizers asked people: “Do you want to get Hitler out of the White House?”, and told them “There is no one else but LaRouche who is saying that this Obama and his health care are fascist.” Democrats and Republicans alike were furious, considered the health bill unconstitutional, agreed that the Republican Party hadn’t done a damn thing that worked to stop the bill, and wanted to join us in fighting.

It was the same in New Jersey, where a LaRouche PAC table turned into a constant mini-rally throughout the day, with people crowded around, talking to organizers, calling others on the cell phones to tell them to come over, too.

In other news.

No, let’s ponder the stories for a minute.  Why, these were reported in the mainstream media as well.
“This is nothing but hateful,” one woman said to the two representatives, a man and a woman manning the literature table. “You are just inciting anger!”
The two said nothing in response. When a reporter asked for comment, the woman referred the reporter to PAC headquarters.
Margaret Betts of Birmingham was so rankled by the posters, she went home to get her camera and returned to document the scene for her blog: birminghammarge.blogspot.com.
“I’m just a senior citizen, but I find this highly offensive,” she said. “Just seeing the picture of our president with a Nazi mustache absolutely disgusts me. I told them they should be ashamed of themselves.”
Pretty soon a Birmingham police officer, Cpl. Jerry Hall showed up. He said residents had “tweeted” the police department with complaints about the malicious nature of the posters. “As much as people may not like their lovely literature,” Hall said, “they have a right to be here. I’m trying to quell people’s suspicions that they shouldn’t or couldn’t be there. They are protected by free speech.”
But for many, comparing our president with the man responsible for the extermination of six million Jews was reprehensible. After talking with the two LaRouche representatives, Birmingham resident Greg Thrasher said was enraged.
“I wish I had the courage to toss their table over,” he said. “Then I got into an argument with a couple of residents who signed their petition. They were saying how they felt Obama was socialist. About five minutes into the chat, the words ‘you people’ and ‘n—–‘ finally emerged. Rather than coming together, we’re yelling nasty insults at each other. I guess that’s where we still are in 2010.”

No.  Seriously.  Then again:

Although Obama’s overall attitude and behavior have grown no less arrogant, even as his approval ratings sink lower with each daily poll, what has grown is his fixation and his terror, every time Lyndon LaRouche opens his mouth, a fact that has led a number of Washington insiders to comment that the only thing Obama seems to fear is LaRouche.

The line is that every mention of extremists from the Democratic Party will be shown as a sign of this obsession.  Just as well.  Supposedly the tenor in Larouche headquarters is getting a little weirder.

We can’t tell you who, or why or where, but there is a document circulating which is very disturbing to read as well as funny. Disturbing because it seems to indicate that as Lyn nears a funeral, the deadenders and LYMsters are hallucinating about Lyn to the point that it could be seen as a severe sickness by those who study cults and hillarious by us who know this cult. The mechanism which is taking place is very similar to what Chator has reported in that members of the cult see Lyn in virtually any article, media or web source and will prove to themselves that there are secret messages written or said where the real point of the piece Lyn! This often takes the shape of someone wishing to be the first to find hidden messages or to indicate that the whole point of the article is to stop the universe from turningto Lyn to be saved.

I think some things are cyclical here, but maybe there is some item in the find cycle, that the essence gets distilled, fluff is thrown out of the personality cult and the name is simply chanted in unison.  I suppose it’s true the cult is not falling apart (never knew what the metrics for such an idea would be anyway), but Phase Shifts are always possible.

[Pause].

And Keep your eye on this program on Jeremiah Duggan.
I was meaning to revisit the history of the figure of “European”, but it doesn’t seem worthwhile.  Maybe I’ll post it in the comments here over the next week.

Illuminati=ET kin aka gods, Annunaki, Ea, dragons, angels/demons, Satan, Pepsi, naga, vampires, bluebloods, Al Gore, Windsors, Rothschilds, Rockefellars etc who rule cults like Freemasonry. Their agenda: repeatedly cull/victimize people via vaccines/other poisons, Codex Alimentarius, carbon taxes, internet 2, WW3 then stage an alien invasion to get a fascist world government/religion with us chipped. Support Dr Deagle, Stewart Swerdlow, Oracle Broadcasting, gardeners and free-energy technology!

In my humble opinion, The Oregonian managed to mis-headline a letter.

Bush Knew has a specific meaning.  Type “Bush Knew” into google and it comes out “9/11”.  Weirdly enough, there are two non 9/11 specific items on the first page, and one of them correlates to the letter by Dennis Kenny of Southwest Portland — Iraq, Saddam, Weapons of Mass Destruction.  The other, oddly enough, has nothing to do with War and Peace — “1 Billion Dollar Student Loan Boondoggle”.

Actually, it’s interesting to go through what “Bush Knew”, according to the google search.  #1, and this dominates the search.:  Bush Knew about 9/11.  #2:  Bush Knew about WMD.  #3:  Bush Knew about Student Loan malfeasance.  #4:  Bush knew about how bad Katrina would be.  #5:  Bush Knew Names of Irishmen.  It gets more obscure after that.

When I’ve seen graffiti years ago, around about 2002 — saying “Bush Knew”, I knew what it meant – it was a political comment from a 9/11 Truther.  It just has an affixed meaning in my head now, such that I cannot abide by an Oregonian headline writer in the Letters section affixing a letter with “Bush Knew” to a letter saying Bush Knew about something entirely different.

In case you’re curious and as an aside, a search of what “Obama Knew” reveals no particular and specific item.  It is headlined by a website entitled “Obama Knew” which is a conspiratorial website that hinges Obama as the source of all that is bad and evil.

Also interesting in the same letters column, worthy of note.

Feeling rebellious
Democracy died and cannot seem to be revived. The monarchies (oligarchies) are back and behaving just as badly as before the two revolutions (American and French) that were supposed to change all that.

KAREN ALEXANDER-BROWN
Hillsboro 

Yeah, you go do that.

This is rather familiar.

House Democrats make an impulse decision Sunday to walk back from the caucus meeting outside and through a throng of protesters.

A leadership aide said the Caucus made the decision right before wrapping up their meeting in the Cannon House Office building.

The move threw the Capitol Police for a loop, as they had to scramble to bolster their security wall knowing that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was about to put herself within arms reach of an angry crowd that just a day earlier shouted racial and anti-gay slurs at Democrats. One protester was arrested for allegedly spitting on an African American Congressman.

The march across Independence Ave. back to the Capitol went off largely without a hitch.

A Democratic aide said a protester shouted “Dennis Kucinich you’re a traitor!” Kucinich this week announced his support after voting againt the House bill on the grounds that it was not progressive enough.

The crow of anti-healthcare protesters had been separated by police from a group of bill supporters.

It’s a bit of a Team Building Experience, somehow akin to something that might be done as a Retreat Exercise.  But it’s political purpose is something along the lines of, oh — Texas 1960 with Vice Presidential candidate Lyndon Johnson.

On Nov 4, 1960, campaigning hard in what appeared to be an uphill effort to keep his own state of Texas from going Republican, Sen Lyndon B Johnson and his wife found themselves in the midst of an incredible scene in the lobby of the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas.  The Democratic vice presidential candidate and Lady Bird arrived for a noon luncheon barely an hour after Dallas Republicans had finished whooping it up for Richard M Nixon at a rally in the same hotel.  Several hundred persons, including Dallas’ then-congressman, Republican Bruce Alger, were waiting for the Johnsons.  The mood was ugly.  Alger carried a sign saying: “LBJ Sold Out to Yankee Socialists.”  Other placards called the seantor a “Judas.”

Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird were engulfed by the crowd, and for more than half an hour, were reviled and jostled as they slowly made their way across the lobby.  Johnson refused offers of police assistance, telling an aide that “if the time has come that I can’t walk with my lady across the lobby of the Adolphus Hotel, than I want to know it.”  The incident blazed across the nation’s television screens and newspaper headlines.  The effect was remarkable.  As Rowland Evans and Robert Novak recall in their book [], the mob scene in the Adolphus “outraged thousands of Texans and … southerners … Sen Richard Russell , who had not campaigned for his party’s national ticket since 1944, telephoned Johnson that evening to offer his services . . . and Russell campaigned through Texas with Johnson.”  While no one can prove the proposition, these Johnson biographers conclude that it is a “credible hypothesis” that the Adolphus incident swung Texas, and perhaps other closely contested southern states into the Democratic column.

The rest of this January 1968 article is absurd, of course, from a historical context.   But Nixon grabbed the mantle of the “the other side are kooks” sentiment, and protected various political grabs like this one.

So, that’s part of the Democratic Party Political Theater of the moment.  What of the Republican Party’s Political Theater?  Well, the Republicans are offering Amendment after Amendment to change the Bill so as to get it back to the House for ratification.  The one that’s receiving the most attention is from Doctor Tom Coburn, to … reduce the cost of providing federally funded prescription drugs by eliminating fraudulent payments and prohibiting coverage of Viagra for child molesters and rapists and for drugs intended to induce abortion.
What else? Defund ACORN!

Then there’s Michelle Bachman’s Repeal bill.  It’s simple.  And not going to happen.  We’ll have to keep tuned in to see who co-signs.

Then there’s their current strategy of signing out at 2 pm.
Perhaps the Democrats should walk past them very slowly and film it, make the crazies the opponents.

This is, I guess, Barack Obama’s version of “The Works”.

Okay, try this one.
In response to:

I spent some time yesterday talking on Canadian radio, explaining health-care reform to our neighbors to the north. They were a bit puzzled at what’s been going on down here. Why, they wanted to know, was there all that talk about “socialism” when the reform left in place the private insurance system? And why were people so angry? I found it a little hard to explain without going into an hour-long history of right-wing populism in America.
We get.:

Waldman, I pity the poor Canadians whom you subjected to your left-wing populist spin justifying the toxic stew of WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION that is also known as health care “reform.” I’m sure you could have gone on to enlighten our northern neighbors with your take on the “history of right-wing populism in America” and for their sake I am glad you spared them additional lies and distortions.

So you perceive that the “small group of Tea Party activists” are angry, eh? Just them? Not the vast majority of the American people? Could it be that there is great widespread anger because the American people were deceived into voting for a “transformational” candidate for president who would “change the culture of Washington” and work in a bipartisan manner on his signature issue with open hearings televised on C-SPAN? Now everyone sees the soothing lies of the race-baiting spin doctor Axelrod exposed for the utter deception they were as the administration continues fixed on their agenda of WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION, with it’s planned sequel of AMNESTY for the illegal invaders (you and your ilk prefer the euphemism “undocumented workers”) to turn millions of mostly Mexican peasants into grateful voting Democrats.

So, we have LIES on a breathtaking scale, considering that we’re talking about the future of the United States. We also have stupendous HYPOCRISY. People remember LBJ and the leftist mandarins of 1965 determined to transform the party of Jim Crow, police dogs and fire hoses (Bull Connor, Democratic National Committee member) into the freespending behemoth “friend” of the black, poor, and otherwise oppressed peoples. Never mind that it did more to destroy the strengths of the black family than any other factor and created a generational cycle of dependency that greatly decreased the quality of life for every resident of our large cities. Now the glittering prize of millions more Democrats to turn American completely blue forever beckons. To sordid apologists for continued American degradation like yourself, it doesn’t matter that these masses of mostly low skill Mexicans have shown a great disinclination to learn enough English to properly assimilate into American society, a prediliction to form and join violent criminal gangs, a propensity for drug trafficking and a palpable contempt for American law enforcement. You have tremendous chutzpah to talk about the “thuggery” of a few catcalls and insults directed at House Democrats sashaying and strutting into the Capitol to finalize their WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION when the current administration declines to do anything about the club wielding terrorists of the New Black Panther Party who terrorized a Philadelphia polling place or the ongoing pernicious street actions of ACORN. You are the essence of what many Americans loathe, a “progressive” elite mandarin gated community hypocrite who desires only to perpetuate and strengthen the socialist welfare state that America is fast becoming. Yes, we’re angry, Waldman, and we clearly see who is on our side and who is not

Posted by: Harry Flashman | March 23, 2010 11:31 AM

Huh.  It’s like, he’s never heard of the Canadian Health Care system and it’s… system of “wealth distribution”, lower case or upper case as circumstances warrent?  Skip a beat and the “Sordid apologist for Continued American Degredation” is — apparently, a job description.

Look at Waldman, the sordid apologist for continued American degradation, for example. The liberal chattering classes, as embodied by the regular denizens of this site, are mostly quite dangerously employed. Perhaps some might find it refreshing to hear from a point of view that is different from their “raelity.”

Maybe he should go back to filling out his NRSC brackets?  I don’t quite understand how the party can fit the categories of “Have No Shame” against, oh “Rubber Stamp” — but the actual NCAA tournament has no geographical significance in slotting “West”, “East”, “North”, and “South” brackets.

Turn to the Conservapedia for more coverage.

The betrayal of Christ comes a week early this year, as more than a dozen so-called pro-life Democrats vote to open the floodgates to taxpayer-funded abortion tonight. Judas betrayed with a kiss; these fake pro-lifers betray with the fig leaf of an Executive Order that can be rescinded in a heartbeat and will not stop the funding anyway.

Conservapedia is keen on some rather odd court cases.  They’re taking to championing the various states’s attempts to repeal the new law.

South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Louisiana, Alabama, Michigan, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington, Idaho, South Dakota and Florida have filed suit in northern Florida to overturn the health care bill. Virginia has filed a separate lawsuit in Richmond, using a state statute that blocks the federal mandate. “It really is nothing more than a wholesale takeover of large portions of state institutions and programs.” [6]

And, puzzlingly and curiously, a Conservative Cause I’d never heard about.:

Our own Andy Schlafly takes over as lead counsel for the Committee to Recall Robert Menendez from the Office of United States Senator. This will be a precedent-setting case, because no Senator or Representative has ever been recalled before. [32] NJ Tea Parties United and the Sussex County Tea Party are seeking to force the Senator’s removal because of his support of health-care reform and past votes to increase government spending.[33]

Who knew?  What a bizarre cauldron of oddities this site is.
On this day in 1775, Patrick Henry proclaims “Give me liberty, or give me death.” He never did mention anything about healthcare.
Touche?

Question of the day, as I wade through pointless political commentary.

What is the most likely path to a political victory in 2010 for a Democratic politician in the Congress?  What is the most likely path to a political victory in 2012 for a Democratic politician in the White House?  (And with Obama, mind you, he has a longer time frame to consider — in how to conciliate his contradictory election winning personas.  Today is not 2012.)
Think for a second.  Think for a second of a joke — part of the conventional wisdom — “so and so percentage approve of Obama’s job performance.  So and So percent disapprove.  The other percentage — are actually waiting for him to do something.”  I will say this about Obama — I’m happy to see the demise of the “First 100 Days” window, which he and Rahm Emanuel downplayed as we wound our way to the end of his First 100 Days.
So it is that the quotations over the past bunch of time — first coming about in August with the Town Hall demonstrations, then coming out of the Massachusetts election, that the Bill is Dead and Kaput — that was a desire to create a political reality by stating it and stating it hard.  The Massachusetts election was interesting — “Elections have consequences.  The voice of the people.”  Do you suppose the Election in 2008 had a greater impact than that election?

But to win an election or two, either in 2010 or 2012 — do you do that by trying to figure out a way to appease this man, for instance — and get him to vote for you?  I note that Heath Shuler has (and I’m not even going to say this is the wrong political call) indeed followed the call — He voted NO to Health Care Reform.  Good luck to that one, I guess.
I saw an evangelical tract the other day.  On the front cover was the Obama “Hope Image”.  Open inside, and you get the bible quotes.  “Whatever your feelings may be about this historic election, there are some things that you as a human being must consider.  Obviously, Barack Obama is seen by many as a savior or messiah-like leader.  But many of those who see Mr. Obama in this light fail to realize that he cannot fulfill mankind’s greatest needs.  Many who read this tract will no doubt end up with a few extra bucks in their pocket because of this historic Obama presidency.”  It is a puzzling abomonition.  What is this thing suggesting about Obama with that statement?  “The consequences of trusting Barack Obama for your grestest needs are that God Almighty Himself will reject you, just as you rejected Him.”  Is this relatable to the Health Care bill, I wonder.  Rev. 20:15 — a Hellfire burn soul quote, and then a check list of two options.  “I hereby repent of my sins and receive Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior from Hell.”  Bad word choice — it can be read that Jesus comes from Hell.  AND “I hereby reject Jesus Christ and accept Barack Hussein Obama as my personal lord and savior.”

This National Review posting is fine and dandy enough.  I have to laugh round about here.

But in the end, even the squishiest Republican candidate chooses to be a Republican, with all of its attendant inherent hostility from much of the mainstream press, demonization by Hollywood, reflexive accusations of racism, etc. That suggests at least a little spine, or at least a certain willingness to espouse a view because of some deeply held principle independent of public opinion.
It’s hard out there being a Republican, isn’t it?  Go figure.  All these years Liberals have been glum faced about perceived liability of “Liberal” — and so we have the rise of the “Progressive” and the diminuation of any difference between the words.

Meanwhile, all but the most wildly rebellious Democrats will let down a conservative pretty frequently. Only three House Democrats voted against the health-care bill, cap-and-trade, and the stimulus: Bobby Bright of Alabama, Walt Minnick of Idaho, and Gene Taylor of Mississippi. In other words, every other self-proclaimed conservative Democrat voted for at least one piece of legislation that conservatives loathed. John Barrow of Georgia (lifetime ACU rating 36.2) voted for the stimulus. Heath Shuler (lifetime ACU rating 30.6) voted for cap-and-trade. Joe Donnelly of Indiana (lifetime ACU rating 32) signed on for health care.
And you know what?  Walt Minnick is not going to win re-election.

The Senate elections are always the easiest thing to watch as a combo.  Where are we with that?  We have that question: Will the “Tea Party”, as a ballot political enitity, give Harry Reid a lifeline?  I would say not and he can’t count on such a thing — it’s probably easy enough for the Republicans to consolidate the opposition behind oustering the Majority Leader.  (That’s not a statement about Reid coming through to victory or not, it’s just a statement about the relevance of the third party candidacy.)  Would the nomination of a Rand Paul give the Democratic candidate in Kentucky a chance?  It seems that way.  Is Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas screwed?  It looks that way.  If, by chance, J. D. Hayworth were to win the Republican nomination in Arizona and ouster John McCain — could the Democratic Party suddenly have a chance?  It doesn’t look like that — and besides, McCain now has Palin stumping for him!  How the hell did Arlen Specter gets his mojo back?  Beats the Hell out of me.

It is too bad that the “Demon Pass” manuever won’t be implemented for Health Care.  From what I can tell, it would have produced a better final bill.

Nonetheless, the “Demon Pass” has not died yet in the hearts and minds of the Critics.  Observe this chart.  Maybe it will go down in another day or two?

You’d think they were extending a fifteen minute over-night voting session until they could wrangle a couple recalcitrant voters, or something.

The thing is the Demon Pass has long been employed as a legislative tool.  It was first used by Republican Joseph Gurney Cannon near the dawn of the twentieth century.  He would not let the Minority Party proceed to any point of order until they answered three riddles.  Sam Rayburn would later add an arbitariness to the difficulty of the three riddles, creating new solutions on the fly and not accepting some standardly accepted answers.  Newt Gingrich upped the ante by throwing some Democrats into the Fifth Circle of Hades.

If the process has gotten under control, at least nobody’s promising a Nude Erection anymore.  Oh wait — they are.  Oh well.

Things that are stupid.  The wikipedia article for Kesha Rogers.  I think the article should probably be about five sentences in length, commiserate with her relevance.  I do draw your attention to the Pete Olson quotation balanced off with the Gerry Birnberg quotation –  Pete Olson is guilty of simple partisan baiting, and I suppose good for him — the Harris County Democrats should be looking around for a replacement to Gerry Birnberg for coddling a cult.

Interesting to see this item about Zeitgeist Exposed (with participants like Larouche).  There was a Zeitgeist Event Showing a week ago.  I thought of attending.  I didn’t.  I guess my mind remains un-re-melded.  Really, all I would have provided if I’d looked and posted on it is a sense of   Local color.:

Paul Glumaz, a balding middle-aged man whose booming voice carried a trace of an East Coast accent, set up a table festooned with pamplets and posters, one of which had the words “impeach now” emblazoned below a portrait of Pres. Barack Obama wearing a Hitler-style moustache. As a strong breeze ruffled the political literature on the table, Glumaz laughed and described some of the hand gestures he’d seen from drivers of passing cars.”I’ve been getting a lot of birds and some thumbs up,” he said.
Glumaz described his trip to Vashon was part political mission, part tourism.
“I have a friend here, and he’s going to show me around tonight,” he explained.

When I saw the headline blare “There is Only Thing Larouche’s Enemies Are Obsessed With: What is Lyndon Larouche Going to Do on Saturday?”, I was confronted with a question I had never considered.  This was for last Saturday, and I thought about the question.  Would Lyndon Larouche wake up early, say 6 am ish, to catch Rocky and Bullwinkle reruns — or am I transplanting my eight year old self to him?  I quickly found myself terribly uninterested in the question.  I suppose you might want to know what I did last Saturday?  No?  I didn’t think so.  I could have given you the answer, “Went to a Zeitgist Showing”, but alas I didn’t bother with that.  What did Larouche do?  I half suspect he’s dead now and the org has hired a actor to do these random monthly descents.  But, otherwise — I suppose he’d do some prep work of some variety for his roughly monthly appearance before a camera for live distribution over the Internet.  Then he’d deliver his performance.   Nobody would notice except, I suppose, for TimeForTruth, who would dutifully fill me on where his meanderings are leading.  I have no idea why he’d post there — I’ve posted three times more and once directly addressing TimeForTruth.

Whatever we can say, they’re scurrying about inserting Larouche into current events.  When they speak that Obama’s “Obsession with Larouche”, they look to the story of Rahm Emanuel speaking of “fringe groups” and assume they’re speaking about them — last time I saw them mentioned to the tea party they were pegged as at “the fringes of the Tea Party”.  (Here they are!) When they hear some Republicans speak about the “Ides of March”, it must be coming from them — or maybe not.  Hell — they’re taking credit for Scott Brown’s victory.  In the end, Obama seems rather “obsessed” with passing his health care policy.  I suppose I can speak luke-warmly on it — I would like to say we can do better than this bill, but I guess by definition we can’t.  I don’t know what to do with that Overton Window thing — every time I look around people I hear these things about “Death Panels” and a tangeant about Abortion.  Oh well.

Next election coming up — Summer Shields against Nancy Pelosi.  The most talked about political ad of the year involves Demon Sheep.  I think for their political ad in this race, the Summer Shields campaign might want to look to it for inspiration.
Of course, I already have two ad proposals for Rachel Brown against Barney Frank in my head.  I’ll put them down one of these days.