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Gorbamastein: The Political Monster Turns on Its Creators
Creation of Gore and Obama turns on Bayh, Kennedy, Dodd, Dorgan. Air America breathes its last.
Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
—
John
Milton,
Paradise
Lost
(X.743-5)
It’s alive! It’s alive!
From Indiana to Connecticut to North Dakota to Rhode Island to the radio airwaves, with reminders of its looming presence appearing in everything from the ending of political careers to snowstorms to bad polls to sub-basement cable ratings and an angry vanishing talk radio network, the monster lurks. Shape-shifting to materialize in forms as varied as a bureaucracy-laden health care plan, a climate change scam, massive debt, a New York trial for 9/11 terrorists and the Mirandizing of the underwear bomber, a political terror of hideous proportion stalks the land.
Like the classic 1818 Mary Shelley tale of Frankenstein, long-ago launched into modern popular culture with the iconic1931 film featuring Boris Karloff as the monster created by Victor Frankenstein, the combined policy obsessions of former Vice President Al Gore and President Obama, aided and abetted by congressional Democrats, are terrifying the electorate. Stirring a furious response — even as the monster now turns on its creators and the various Igor-like assistants who eagerly went along with the ideas that created it.
Frankenstein, of course, referred in the original Shelley novel to the creator of the monster — not the monster itself. Yet the powerful visual impact of the movie re-launched Shelley’s tale so graphically the name of the creator began to be applied ever-after to the now universally known image of Karloff as “Frankenstein” — the once innocent monster turned evil, stitched together by an arrogant, corrupt and quite mad scientist from the parts of dead bodies. Including, in one memorable scene, a specimen from a jar labeled “Abnormal Brain.” With help, of course, from “Fritz” — the Igor of the piece.
Thus repackaged, “Frankenstein” became the very symbol of an out-of-control, sinister and frighteningly powerful dehumanized creature, its creator a man of arrogant intelligence who knew no boundaries as he went about the business of creating a monster synonymous with bringing horrifying death and destruction wherever it went.
So too is it the case with the political monster that must surely be called “Gorbamastein” — a terrifyingly out-of-control political creature stitched together from parts of dead ideas, concocted out of the abnormal brain that is the combined intellectual arrogance exhibited by both Gore, Obama, and their allies. The resulting monster let loose on the American political landscape is now relentlessly destroying both political careers and credibility in one terrifying political disaster after another for Democrats, with voters furiously turning on the monster even as the monster turns on its creators.
Sightings or reminders of Gorbamastein are now being reported almost daily, along with increasing reports of the furious response from angry villagers —- that would be voters — as well.
Here are but a few of the Gorbamastein sightings as reported since January of 2009.
• Climategate: The monster has appeared in the global warming debate, as it refuses to answer questions challenging the science of global warming, responding that it’s “kind of silly” to keep debating the science.
It later emerges that the scientific data on which Gorbamastein wants to launch massive government spending programs is “flawed.”
• Healthcare: Gorbamastein snarls that Americans who oppose the monster health care plan are “un-American” and compares them to Nazis.
• The Economy: Gorbamastein insisted that if its $787 billion stimulus plan were passed, unemployment would not go above 8%.
It is now officially at 9.7%, with many Americans giving up their search for a job, and unemployment hitting record double-digit rates in many states, California being but one. The flow of seemingly unstoppable red-ink — trillions of dollars worth — becomes the signature trail of the monster.
• Terrorism: Gorbamastein announces the mastermind of 9/11 will not be tried at a military tribunal in Guantanamo but rather at a civilian trial in New York City, to the applause of the Fritzes at the New York Times.
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Ret. Marine| 2.16.10 @ 6:51AM
Great piece. Yes the torches are lit, the fire is hot and the monster will slowly move backwards of it trail of death fearing the townsfolks who have moved in a circle around this dangerous animation of the loathing types. All the kingsmen are praying for a reprieve but, have had their day only to reconize the hate they have created is turning about to devour them whole.
The obamanation is heavy with waste, fraud, lies and moral degradations. It too will turn on him as he is no more than a mere mortal with less than stellar aquaitenses. Fear not this obamanation, it is merly a ruse to focus the unrulely child back to his room where he will get a time-out for his sully games. An all points bulletin has been issued for the third rail of the consensus of settled science, algorble. Nowhere to be found, this one little man can be seen in the southern hemisphere lapping up the sun-god rays with the fevor of a once revered token establishment. Good riddence punks, you deserve it.
kestrel| 2.16.10 @ 6:58AM
Yes, just more good old, failed Liberalism in action. It seems those on the left side of life are incapable of learning, especially from History, but perhaps that's because they are so wise and Intelligent.
Stephanie| 2.16.10 @ 7:24AM
Kestrel,
the are incapable of learning from History because they don't know it. And as the beast Machelle ma bell said, "we will rewrite history".
And the worst is that it isn't taught in schools. The little minds of mush need to know how to put on a condom, not who our founding fathers were and what they stood for.
Deborah D | 2.16.10 @ 6:59AM
This is simply excellent and a perfect metaphor. They are all monsters and monsters create monstrosities. That's why the villagers are coming -- we're taking back the village.
bombsaway!!!| 2.16.10 @ 7:16AM
duuuude!! #1! ...with a bullet
Don L| 2.16.10 @ 7:24AM
So where are the pitchforks and torches? The monster has been discovered perhaps, but it is still running loose and is terrorizing Hillary's proverbial village where the children are being raised. A monster this evil must be comnpletely done away with lest it rise against from the ashes and cause grave harm with its hammer and sickle.
Louis Jenkins| 2.16.10 @ 7:27AM
I smell a sequel. Return of Gorbamastein, Bride of Gorbamastein, Gorbamasteen, etc. I don't think this monster is as easily killed as we want to believe. Let's check and see if we have the needed weaponry. Silver bullet, check, wooden stake, check, Constitution, check, holly water, check, Conservatism, check....
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 2.16.10 @ 8:53AM
Do you remember Abbot & Costello & Gorbamastein go to Las Vegas, but then think better of it, pissing off the Mayor again? It's a classic!!
Jim Hlavac | 2.16.10 @ 4:03PM
I think we'll need the tar a-warming, and plenty of feathers, too. Plus some rails to ride them out of town on. Or do we put them in the pillory or stocks?
Let us not forget the biggest class action lawsuit of all time -- We the People v. Gore & Obama, and named and unnamed co-conspirators.
And we are the judge, jury and executioner.
Oh, what a movie to be made! With a cast of millions!
Bill Hussien O'Stalin| 2.16.10 @ 7:52AM
Al Gore is the Al Roker version of Bernie Madoff.
m lyster| 2.16.10 @ 8:00AM
To the castle! To the castle! Burn the creature in its lair, so it terrorizes the townspeople no more.
saleboter| 2.16.10 @ 9:01AM
Gorbamastein - cute
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Noir| 2.16.10 @ 10:07AM
All I could think of was Gorbamastein saying:
Healthcare - GOOOOOD
Cap n Trade - GOOOOOD
Tea Party - BAAAD
.....if you remember the scene from the old black and white film
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Hardcard| 2.16.10 @ 11:02AM
Monsters ? Do you mean obamasoros or just pelosi ?
davelnaf| 2.16.10 @ 11:20AM
The magnitude of the backlash against Obama and the dems has been both surprising and heartwarming. The slowness of its coming says that a substantial core of decent and intelligent people in this country wanted to see if Team Obama could sensibly change course in the face of mounting opposition. But the monster could not and now the backlash has set in and it is of the proportions of a tsunami coming at the dems—it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch…or gang. At this point the remaining (or surviving) dems must be pondering whether or not to throw Obama under the bus. Gore, sadly, is safely out of their reach.
George S| 2.16.10 @ 11:40AM
Dr. Frankenstein is... us. We stitched the parts together out of hope and change and whatever else we wanted to see in our political monster.
But in the novel, the monster destroys his creator before the town folk destroy him. That may very well happen to us, depending on what happens this November.
wwwexler| 2.16.10 @ 6:41PM
WRONG! Dr. Frankenstein is the DEMOCRAT PARTY!
The monster is the democrat's creation, and with our help, we will both destroy them.
Tomas| 2.17.10 @ 11:09AM
No, George S is right. The American people DID create this monster when they dumped their brains and voted with ther emotions.
The many people who voted for this charlatan - despite repeated warnings - are now moving quickly to the right in order to assuage their guilt. Especially Republicans who pulled the Black Lever because 1. their white guilt overcame their better judgment, and 2. because they were pissed at Republicans and wanted to "punish" them.
Witness the quickly vanishing Obama bumper stickers.
The American people have a lot to answer for in this monster they created. I think the light is dawning, and we will see a wholesale Democrat slaughter in November. Those Dems who also see this are - like Bayh - heading for the exits.
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wwwexler| 2.17.10 @ 8:44PM
WRONG AGAIN!!
Speak for yourself, Tomas--Conservatives like me did not vote for Obowmao and we will not take responsibility for his disastrous presidency.
But, go ahead, be my guest--YOU can be liberal 'Frankenstein' if you want and take credit for the monster's reign of error.
BTW--was one of those vanishing Obama bumper stickers yours?
Стас | 2.16.10 @ 12:03PM
Al Gore is the Al Roker version of Bernie Madoff.
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Dean| 2.16.10 @ 1:04PM
Of all of the loathsome people on the left, I can think of few more loathsome than that fatuous ass Al Gore. How sweet it would be to kick him out of his Nashville mansion and force him to life in a crude cabin like that in which the Unabomber lived. No electricity, no running water, and no connection to Gore's greatest creation, the Internet. Surrounded by the trophies of his fraudulent career, Gore could continue to write his idiotic screeds and slowly lose what little mind he ever possessed.
Big Bad Jack| 2.16.10 @ 1:44PM
All well and good, folks, but there is a long time to go before November, and a lot can yet be engineered by these lice. No matter how easy November looks at the moment, do not believe it. You and I must get off our collective derrieres AND VOTE! Bet your burka the left will...that's how we got the disaster we have in the White House. Assume nothing good yet, and get the vote out. Take ANYTHING for granted, and we will get our clocks cleaned, perhaps for the last time ever.
Dean| 2.16.10 @ 2:34PM
If Obama's approval ratings continue to decline, he might end his political career like Franklin Pierce. Pierce was elected in 1852 with high hopes, yet four years later people were so disgusted with him that he failed to win renomination by his party for a second term. Hopefully Obama will suffer the same ignominious fate.
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Colin Foy| 2.16.10 @ 10:53PM
Good article however, Mr. Lord is only half right. This monster never would have seen the light of day without help from the ineffectual and gutless, go along to get along, republocrats ensconced in the looming political nightmare from Sacramento to Missouri and Maine to D.C.
The most infamous progenitor of this hideous national creation would be, IMHO, Sen. Kit Bond, R, Missouri.
He, along with Sen. Byron Dorgan, D, ND, worked diligently and effectively to remove any trace of wrong doing by another set of monsters, the Clintons of B&H Inc. It seems that during the long investigation and subsequent conviction of one Henry Cisneros, Clinton Inc. HUD chairman, it came to light that B&H Inc. had used the IRS as their own personal gestapo to go after anyone, especially the women, who accused the horn-dog in chief of, shall we say, monstrous behaviour when it came to the opposite sex.
Bond and Dorgan had any reference of this tyrannical, typical B&H Inc. behaviour removed from the official record of the case.
How else, but for the help of republocrats, do you think we ended up with a sexual deviant as the school safety czar, and an idiot unqualified "Latina" on the supreme court? And what of the scores of brave and valiant American service men and women coming home in body bags, with many more mangled beyond repair, as they fight not one but two unconstitutional and undeclared wars? All this while the country is being surreptitiously invaded and gutted from within by illegal aliens and insane foreign debt. Surly you can't believe the feeble and salacious demarxistcrats where capable of doing it all on their own? Cheers!
FTM| 2.17.10 @ 3:52AM
Colin Foy is Wise.
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jfmoris| 2.17.10 @ 12:50AM
On the subject of not underestimating those monsters: They have hundreds of billions to spend. Remeber before Obama, when hundreds of billions seemed like a lot of money? It still is.
And they are the party of career political hacks, many of them studied sociology and linguistics and law. They are expert at standing the truth on its head, and making it seem reasonable. They have a huge rhetorical advantage, with passing out benefits.
I'm sure glad the villagers are mad. I just hope they stay mad for a long time. Conservatives need a reliable core of people who vote every time, and are determined to never let democrats be in charge of anything. Their whole philosophy is to loot the government to buy popularity.
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Gerald Stephens| 2.17.10 @ 1:15PM
We the People have to date never failed!
One of the people| 2.17.10 @ 4:33PM
The left elite progressives know their policies work for them but not for the people. Progressives, aka liberals, are intelligent, organized and zealous. They know history. They know that their policies will make the people serve them instead of serving the people. Progressives' true agenda is to seize power to decrease the lifestyle of the people in order to increase the Progressives' lifestyle. If anyone doubts that, then look at the history of societies that were not ruled by the people.
wwwexler| 2.17.10 @ 8:46PM
You're right; Progressives are evil--they push eugenics.
Platon | 4.20.10 @ 12:10PM
fascinating article! Respect the author!
tanatos | 8.4.10 @ 11:52AM
I smell a sequel.
Cs1.6 | 10.1.10 @ 9:38AM
The left elite progressives know their policies work for them but not for the people. Progressives, aka liberals, are intelligent, organized and zealous. They know history. They know that their policies will make the people serve them instead of serving the people. Progressives' true agenda is to seize power to decrease the lifestyle of the people in order to increase the Progressives' lifestyle. If anyone doubts that, then look at the history of societies that were not ruled by the people.
Puma x Alexander McQueen | 8.13.11 @ 12:01AM
is good