My take: Congratulations Mr. President, but It's really over for all of us

The only thing right today is that moderate Republicans 

don't win presidential elections.

Well, the people have spoken and I'm genuinely surprised — and shattered. Everything I believed was utterly wrong, beginning with that sure as hell "Romney victory" factoid. And if Obama won - he really won - there's isn't much we can do anymore since this is the best we can do. The republican electorate wasn't motivated — it was fired up at its utmost. The despair was at the other side. The positivism for a better future was Romney's, not Obama's.

Well, the people have spoken and I'm genuinely surprised — and shattered. Everything I believed was utterly wrong, beginning with that "polls are wrong" factoid. They were pretty accurate. And now I believe that all what pundits and experts talked about time and demography against Republicans and conservatives is completely true. The left has won its long-term battle. Don't expect big changes in the future, since the european welfare state is what people really want.

And if Obama won - he really won - there's isn't much we can do anymore since this is the best we can do.

Well, the people have spoken and I'm genuinely surprised — and shattered. Everything I believed was utterly wrong, beginning with that "common sense will prevail" factoid. Paul Krugman (Paul Krugman!) wasn't a deluded fool in this case. Elizabeth Warren won her Senate race. Apparently, Massachusetts still owes big time the late Teddy Kennedy and doesn't really care about making up your background and plagiarizing as a lifestyle pays big as long as you're progressive enough. Todd Akin got his just desserts and that's pretty much it. Having half of one of the branches of public power is not enough to stop anything. Kagan and Sotomayor will be known in the future as the "moderate faction" of the new Supreme Court.

Well, the people have spoken and I'm genuinely surprised — and shattered. Everything I believed was utterly wrong, beginning with that "Benghazi will sink Obama" factoid. The MSM won this round, too. They are now entitled to get away with everything they feel they can do. They are not paying the price for their dishonest misdeeds. Why should they? 

I'm giving the political punditry for a long, long while. I might be still right but the electorate said I'm wrong. And I don't want to be right for what it might be coming. Now Obama has all the flexibility he really wanted  — Russia can rush to make that phone call again. Israel is now officially isolated and  Iran can finish that little nuclear program — and any other nation feeling entitled to it, too.

If there's anything we have learned in the past four years, it's that the United States of America can survive a long time without a proper budget. The fiscal cliff and the trillion deficit are still awaiting for an answer that didn't come these last four years. The investment climate is non existent — except for cronies. Obamacare will really take place, America will make full transition to european social democracy (Greece, make some space for America, please) and John G. Roberts has nobody to thank for that but himself.

Yeah, I was wrong when I expected a Republican to win this time. But that won't make the actual problems disappear. People have chosen to made them even worse. 

Brace yourself, Mark Steyn. This is what you were talking about.

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You didn't build that: An old lady with new clothes

Wonka is one of us...

Progressives and liberals of the world were embracing themselves with pure joy when Elizabeth Warren and barack Obama uttered their "Nobody gets rich on their own" or "You didn't build that" theory. The argument sounds so righteous, so true that these central-planned economy, government lovers never realized that the fundamental cornerstone of this sophism is that working people would necessarily have to use always the exactly same effort and have exactly the same skills (and have exactly the same intentions) to make this plausible.

In other words, individual talent could not create wealth on its own.

As a matter of fact, Karl Marx occupied himself (pun intended) with this particular wealth creation conundrum. And found the answer in ridicule: he labeled the individual wealth creation notion as a "Robinsonade", i.e., he found the Robinson Crusoe novel utter ridiculous as it was a silly fantasy to think of an organized man using the rests of a wreckage to organize himself in a deserted island.

Up to this day the term "Robinsonade" still lives in the marxist lexicon. Just google it.

Obama and Warren just found the way to make the old meme more fashionable, since the most that the current pop culture can bear about castaways are "Gilligan's Island" and "Lost". Robinson Crusoe would have made them... so unhip.

A marxist, a liberal, a socialist and a progressive can cover their ears and sing "lalalalala" at the top of their lungs, but they can't deny that as species, individual humans learned to use the fruits of nature to store them and create wealth. Stones were turned into axes and knives, fibers and wood were turned into arcs and arrows, and so on. 

The same way it could be done today.

Now talk about me about how centrists are those modern Democrats. "You didn't build that"? Please tell me more about how this has nothing to do with marxism.

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GOP’s own EMP and the Eleventh Commandment

Every politician is an egotist (duh). Barack Obama is famous for taking himself in very high regard. But Newt Gingrich has raised the bar. Obama’s infatuation with himself is dwarfed by the way the architect of the 1994 Republican Revolution sees himself. Never timid with the use of grandiloquent statements (sample quote: “we helped defeat the Soviet empire”), Newt is the Republican answer to Obama’s “fundamental transformation of America.”

That said, Gingrich’s second surge in the Republican primaries has hit a very delicate nerve in some GOP sectors, enough to provoke an all-out attack against him in order to derail his presidential candidacy for good. The instrument for this assault is none other than the Gipper, Ronald Reagan, the most beloved Republican president of the 20th century. According to sources, in the 1980s, the candidate repeatedly insulted the Great Communicator, never afraid to predict that Reagan’s policies would fail. Even Viagra spokesperson Bob Dole decided to pile on Gingrich, hours before the 19th debate at the University of North Florida.

It is not risky to assert that Gingrich is driving his detractors insane; otherwise Ann Coulter, The National Review and a long list of pedigreed GOPers wouldn’t be so unambiguously breaking Reagan’s eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. I don’t need to be a conservative or register myself as Republican to see where this absurd game is leading: the Republican nomination winner will emerge so weak and disminished after this slugfest that he won’t stand a chance against a full-of-internal-support Barack Obama. This in-house dispute (I refuse to call it civil war) is a Democrats’ dream come true. Like Christmas in January.

Gingrich’s many weaknesses are for all to see now, but absolutely nobody recognizes his true strength. Nobody’s praising his moon base plans, or his immigrant policy, but his followers sure dig the way he fights the biased media and his willingness to pin Obama for every wrongdoing of his tenure. Next to him, Romney is the android that SNL and countless others like to portray. Ron Paul’s foreign policy is way wackier than any Gingrich proposal could be (His EMP warning is not a delusional one, like it or not, it could really happen). Santorum is the only true social conservative of the bunch, and because of that, no matter how well he performs, he’s considered unelectable, because of his perceived “extremist views.”

But like Gingrich, he’s for big government and therefore more akin to the GOP elite, forever disconnected from the base, in fear of having to dismantle spendthrift federal agencies and stopping for once the derail-menacing gravy train of government runaway spending. So many sinecures and crony businesses opportunities lost forever…

The “United States of Greece” is derided as an exaggerated, silly boogeyman, but the spending party has to end. Europe keeps walking on the tight rope, and nobody wants to face the music in the first world.

In the meanwhile, the GOP detonates its own EMP device against itself and smiles pretending to know exactly what it is doing.

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Is Obama feeling the heat now?

Dr. sipmac doesn't really know by now. But the far left is enraged because Obama, their anointed one, decided to back up the Bush tax cuts for two more years (talk about heresy!). Some people think this is another clever and democrat ruse, but the democratic congressional caucus already said "F&% the president". The shockwave hit so hard, that Saturday Night Live couldn't resist sending Fred Armisen to make the cold opening:

Why Obama suddenly realized that a growing economy is the best job creation policy? Why does he favor now the Bush tax cuts as a way to stimulate the economy? Why does this tax break have a duration of only two years? Why did he leave Clinton talking in *his* podium like he were still president?

Stay tuned next week, same bat-hour, same bat-channel.

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