The Left’s newest meme is that our government is broken, that the way the legislative branch is setup, especially on the Senate side, makes it impossible to get anything done. Barack Obama’s agenda has crashed and burned with more debacles happening every day. So, obviously if the Obamessiah can’t shove his pet projects down our throats and up our collective asses — something drastic must be done. Something like, oh, well, how ’bout just eliminating the filibuster in the Senate ’cause everybody with a brain knows that this is just allowing the “tyranny of the minority” to keep the Democrat majority from creating Heaven right here on good ol’ terra firma.

Bullshit!

As Charles Krauthammer patiently explains in his Washington Post column today, Obama is whining like Carter instead of kickin’ butt like Reagen and Clinton.

It turned out that the country’s problems were not problems of structure but of leadership. Reagan and Clinton had it. Carter didn’t. Under a president with extensive executive experience, good political skills and an ideological compass in tune with the public, the country was indeed governable.
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It’s 2010, and the first-year agenda of a popular and promising young president has gone down in flames. Barack Obama’s two signature initiatives — cap-and-trade and health-care reform — lie in ruins.

Desperate to explain away this scandalous state of affairs, liberal apologists haul out the old reliable from the Carter years: “America the Ungovernable.” So declared Newsweek. “Is America Ungovernable?” coyly asked the New Republic. Guess the answer.

The rage at the machine has produced the usual litany of systemic explanations. Special interests are too powerful. The Senate filibuster stymies social progress. A burdensome constitutional order prevents innovation. If only we could be more like China, pines Tom Friedman, waxing poetic about the efficiency of the Chinese authoritarian model, while America flails about under its “two parties . . . with their duel-to-the-death paralysis.” The better thinkers, bewildered and furious that their president has not gotten his way, have developed a sudden disdain for our inherently incremental constitutional system.

Yet, what’s new about any of these supposedly ruinous structural impediments? Special interests blocking policy changes? They have been around since the beginning of the republic — and since the beginning of the republic, strong presidents, like the two Roosevelts, have rallied the citizenry and overcome them.

Hard-core ideologues of either stripe can’t rally the citizenry — they turn off the majority who see them for what they are and won’t put up with being bullied. As many are commenting, instead of this being a flaw, a glitch, it’s how the system is supposed to work. What’s truly pathetic is that with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, a huge majority in the House, radical Leftists controlling both of those bodies plus a Weatherman’s wet-dream of a radically-progressive President in the Oval Office they couldn’t get anything done!

Nada! Nuttin’! Big. Fat. Effin’. ZERO!

Except of course the passage of the humongous Porkulus Stimulus Package his first month in office, but hey, the country was so freaked out by the economic collapse last Fall that even many Republicans supported that nightmare of a budget buster which my kid’s grand kids will still be payin’ off when they’re my age!

What scares me just a bit is that the Carter administration was trying to figure out how to fundamentally change the government — again as Krauthammer notes, “The president’s own White House counsel suggested abolishing the separation of powers and going to a more parliamentary system of unitary executive control.” The Obama administration is going the way of Carter — who knows what political nightmares this hard-Left crew is dreaming?

It’s becoming ever more critical for the GOP to take back control of Congress this November and plan for an unbeatable bid for the 2012 Presidential race. After that, we need to hold our own guys’ feet to the fire and not let them go the way of the Grand Ol’ Party during the Bush 43 era. If they don’t do the will of the people — kick their asses out!

Do that enough times in a row and even a politician will finally get the memo!

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