The teabagger loonies are probably going to be energized by Republican triumphs today including their favorite, a toothy, self-righteous Bible-thumper about to capture the open congressional seat in upstate New York as a third-party candidate. It will be eerily amusing, from a primatological point of view, to watch them celebrate. Defeat could also be bracing and healthy for the denizens of the Obama White House although if past history is any guide, they will take away the message that they have been too daring and bold and need to cut more deals with their enemies. If they had behaved as true populist liberals, Obama’s support for a sleazy, Goldman Sachs Democrat like Corzine in New Jersey might have been more persuasive. But given his team’s enthusiastic collusion with the worst abuses of Wall Street, defeat in that governor’s race, if it occurs, will be richly deserved.
Obama’s weakness in dealing with the corrupt titans of finance has enabled the wacko reactionaries to paint him as a tool of the rich and powerful, and that’s one arena where they’re not crazy (although their memories are awfully short). So if his party takes a licking, will he get worse? What would that mean? At this point, how much more collusion with the banker scam artists is even possible?
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