On To The Next

There are two  topics I want to talk about tonight.   The nationally co-ordinated (apparently) decision to crack down on liberals camping in city parks is yet more proof that the 1% have all the power, the police work for them, and they don’t intend to give a freaking inch.

If she were a bit older, she could be the Republican candidate for President

Oddly enough, I am not terribly worried about that.  Winter’s  coming on and it’s time to try out some new tactics.  Move your money day was a great idea.  One commenter over at Huffpo suggested a series of flash mobs in high profile places like Rockefeller Center. I liked that idea.  Let the protest last until the press and/or the police show up, and then move on to the next location, tba via twitter and such.  Whatever new tactics are planned, they could move them inside, at least until April or so.  Take back the parks when it’s nice.

Everything comes to an end eventually and perhaps it’s time to just declare victory and move on.   And OWS definitely won.  It is now firmly embedded in the American consciousness that 99% of us are being ripped off by the wealthiest 1%.  And that is not going to change until it stops being true.

The other topic is Herman Cain’s excruciatingly embarrassing interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, in which a reporter asked him whether he agreed or disagreed with how Obama dealt with Libya.  First, he just looked stupid for a minute, repeating Libya and then looking at the ceiling.  Then, he asked the reporter to fill him in on what actually happened in Libya.  Then he waffled for about four minutes in a performance which made  Caitlin Upton look smart, talking about the things that are twirling in his head and how the president of the United States doesn’t really need to know anything.

He’s out.  He may not know it yet but, politically, he is as dead as Muammar Gaddafi.  As are Perry  and Bachmann.  They are all as unelectable as Donald Trump.  Newt Gingrich is moving up in the polls, filling the “anybody but Romney” niche for the moment, but he won’t stand up to scrutiny, either.  He may not be quite the blithering idiot Bachmann, Perry and Cain are, but the whole asking-for-a-divorce-while-your-wife-is-in-the-hospital-dying-of-cancer thing has not been entirely forgotten, and his tacky current wife doesn’t help his image.

Unless  somebody else jumps into the fray (Huckabee?) or the RNC opens  up the debates to include Roemer, Johnson and Karger,  the  Republicans are just going to have to decide who they hate less – Romney or Paul.