Step Right Up Folks

James Carville is on my last nerve. Sure it was fun to watch him get on his Huey P Long at Obama for not helping the people of the great state of Louisiana save their oil-laced coast. Though I was surprised he wasn’t doing his interviews somewhere on the Grand Old Mississippi trying to get in a background shot of the Huey P Long Bridge.

He is on the airwaves again, slipping in the “problems in the past” with Gibbs, but now saying “this is brilliant”. The Carnival is back in town to remind the little people that a protest vote against a Democrat Donkey is “voting for a policy”. Step right up folks. We’ve got our guilt-trip Midterm talking point: A protest vote is a policy vote.

Little Long Junior needs to recall his schooling in Louisiana Democratic Party Politics. Though HPL did like his campaigning, Long took his populism quite seriously.

After Roosevelt’s election, Long soon broke with the new President. Aware that Roosevelt had no intention to radically redistribute the country’s wealth, Long became one of the few national politicians to oppose Roosevelt’s New Deal policies from the left. He considered them inadequate in the face of the escalating economic crisis. Long sometimes supported Roosevelt’s programs in the Senate, saying that “[W]henever this administration has gone to the left I have voted with it, and whenever it has gone to the right I have voted against it.”

I couldn’t help but notice that James presented no “policy” change in the ABC interview to take away the subsidies from big oil and give them back to the poor folk. When we hear Obama making speeches about taking on big oil and he slips and says Standard Oil instead of BP, we will know who might be fooling around with his teleprompter.

Democrats are being ushered once again to the Unity Pony Merry-Go-Round. Can anyone spare a dime?

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