"You've got to grab your friends, you’ve got to grab your co-workers, you know, don’t just get the folks who you know are gonna vote, you’ve got to find Cousin Pookie. He’s sitting on the couch right now watching football, hasn't voted in the last five elections, you’ve got to grab him, and tell him to go vote.”
The big question, President Obama, is why is Pookie on the couch in the first place? Come on, you nuanced the comment with the "football" game, but those are played on weekends and late weekday nights, it would never interfere with going to the voting booth in the daytime. The miscalculated comment is not unlike the miscalculation of what happens when you take away the will and need of people to work, replaced by scores of programs delivered like clockwork.
Voter turnout for last Tuesday's election was the lowest since 1942.
It's a shocking reality of indifference toward a process that is the cornerstone right of each American. In his first press conference after the massive defeat, President Obama referenced the light turnout intimating that the vast majority of those voters would have cast their ballots for him... if they had bothered to get off the couch.
This entire episode, and what I've watched over the past six years, reminds me of the HG Wells novel The Time Machine, written in 1895.
In the year AD 802,701 two species of man share the earth. One on the surface called the Eloi: child-like and frail and lead a life of ease provided by the second species, the Morlocks who work beneath underground and provide the Eloi with food and shelter. The thing is, Morlocks tend to the Eloi because they eat them. We are currently turning large swathes of Americans into Eloi.
You might remember on the eve of the first Iraq War when Colin Powell told President Bush "you are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people... their hopes, aspirations and problems. You break it... you own it.”
Well, President Obama maybe those were your voters that stayed home on the couch, but you broke them and now you own them.
Do elections really have consequences?
In a last ditch attempt to push through his ideological agenda, President Obama is on the verge of releasing a torrid of regulations that will entangle businesses and crush economic growth like the mythical Kraken attacking a ship at sea.
The onslaught of rules begins next month into January:
- Smog-causing ozone
- Coal ash
- Interstate pollution
- Greenhouse Gas limits on Future Power Plants
The ozone rules alone would cost $270 billion a year, but it doesn't matter to the President.
There isn't a lot Republicans can do, other than slow down the process of holding up the continuing resolution or going for impeachment. The fact is, the former is off base while they rehabilitate their image and the latter would be the only thing that gets Pookie off the couch.
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