Well Whose playing Chess now?

I TOLD you So! Is such a annoying phrase both to use and to hear. In spite of this fact, I can not help but say "I told you so." to my friends within the Democratic Party who have their panties in a bunch that the Tea Party is gaining on them and that the Republicans may overtake them in the November Congressional elections.

While I was predicting this gloom, my more insider more well connected would be beltway dwelling friends were telling me to SHUT UP! That I was stupid, that Rham and Obama played Chess and I only played Checkers, and that opposing Obama meant that i had unrespolved buried below the surface racism in my pea picking little heart. Uh huh... I kept telling them pass REAL EUROPEAN STYLE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE and SCREW the INSURANCE INDUSTRY and you will have a electoral majority for forty years. Fail to do that and you won't see yourselves hold onto Congress in two years.

I said "Hey dont sell Chrysler to Italy, bail her and GM out", oh Noooo I was playing checkers. I said don't bail out the banks without relief for the underwater unemployed homeowners. Oh Noo I was playing checkers with Bull Connor in my heart...I said no no no more breaks for corporations, rebuild the bridges, the roads, the electrical grids and the national parks. Build a nationwide railway/streetcar system. I was playing checkers on a cracker barrel.

Well whose playing chess NOW ? The Democratic Party, and hello to my friends on the State Committee has been so smart, so confident that the voters had nowhere else to go, so delusional about the depth of love the average voter had for Obama that they managed to lose a mid term election. They could have won. They could have taken both houses. They could have done a major generational shift that would last for thirty years by standing tall for the interests of the 95% of the country. They could have had such a deep loyalty from the American People that they wouldn't need corporate dollars for a decade.....BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Alas. They wont get the message the People are sending them by staying home. They will sit at the expensive lunches in the expensive restaurant where some corporate shill  is paying the bill and fret about how much they wish they could really do some little thing for the People and be appropriately loved for it....

When I was young I would read Abbie Hoffman railing against liberal politicians and what total limp schmucks they were. I could not then, but clearly do now appreciate his viewpoint.