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.
• The Christmas Day underwear bomber, an Al Qaeda emissary
from Nigeria, is arrested and given his Miranda warning — after
a bare 50 minutes of talk.
Already angry, the American public has
reached its limit. Fearing no
longer, they turn the tables on the monster. In the 1931 film,
the angry villagers finally turned on Frankenstein, grabbing
their torchlights and pitchforks in this memorable scene.
In the political world of 2010 America, angry voters have
turned on Gorbamastein in several ways.
• In the health care debate, voters responded to a
Gorbamastein appearance in Pennsylvania with a similarly
passionate response not
unlike the Frankenstein film, albeit minus the torchlights and
pitchforks.
• In Massachusetts, they responded to the Gorbamastein
appearance by electing Scott
Brown.
• In Connecticut bad polls drove Gorbamastein (appearing as
Senator Chris Dodd) from his race for re-election. In Rhode
Island, no less than Gorbamastein Congressman Patrick Kennedy was
chased out of his re-election race, as was North Dakota
Gorbamastein Byron Dorgan sent fleeing from his. Perhaps seeing
the torches coming, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh just gave up his
re-election, despite what his staffers said was a 20-point lead
in the polls. A lead, it should be said, that was at least 10%
less than that of Martha Coakley as she began her epic match with
the unknown Scott Brown in the infinitely
bluer-than-Indiana
Massachusetts.
• New Yorkers have forced the Gorbamastein terror trials
out of their city — making certain that the Gorbamastein monster
that was willing to treat the 9/11 monster as just one more
average American burglar was run out of the city
altogether.
• Up and down the East Coast, the credibility of the
Gorbamastein global warming policies demanding a massive growth
of government control because, among other things, we weren’t
getting enough snow, was done in by repeated blizzards. Which
caused the environmental Gorbamastein
to float the argument that snowstorms are caused by global
warming as well, giving the monster
points for scientific elasticity if nothing else. Perhaps
it’s no coincidence that the credibility of the Gorbamastein
mindset was being put to a picturesque test in a December
snowstorm that blanketed Massachusetts just as Scott Brown’s
pickup
truck began a four-wheel drive to victory. The same reminder
was dumped on New Jersey and Virginia as they prepared to
inaugurate governors elected in a rebuke to the monster. And a
further reminder was delivered up and down the East Coast,
including Pennsylvania,
where Arlen Specter trails in the polls in his
snowbound state, when he’s not spending
his time in a now very nervous and
equally snowbound Washington,
D.C.
• In the media, the all-Gorbamastein-all-the time cable
network of MSNBC is getting thrashed by Fox News in the ratings,
as Bill
O’Reilly has gleefully pointed out, while CNN’s Gorbmamastein
sympathies have made its once glorious life as the king of
cable-news miserable. Air America, the great left-wing hope in
the world of talk radio, Frankenstein-like, was finally cornered
by the free market crowd, the monster chased into
oblivion.
Throughout all this, a picture of desperation is
increasingly drawn by Democrats. Having enthusiastically
participated in the creation of this monster, they can’t seem to
get away from public recognition of their responsibility in its
creation quite fast enough. Out of control, the monster is
wrecking what once appeared to be some of the most enduring
political careers in Washington, from Dodd to Dorgan to Kennedy
and now to Bayh.
That would appear to include the presidential career of one
of the Gorbamastein monster’s prime creators- Barack Obama
himself. Rasmussen now reports only 24% — 24%!! — of the
nation’s voters strongly approve of Obama’s presidential
performance.
“Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to
be God!” shrieked a rapturous Dr. Frankenstein as he watched his
beloved creature stir, coming to life after a jolt from a
powerful bolt of electricity. It is a sentiment that seemed
everywhere in Obama circles as The One and his assistants gazed
at the monster they were about to jolt to life last January in a
burst of euphoria.
Now, as the Gorbamastein monster they created runs amuck,
destroying both their careers and credibility, rueful Democrats
may wish to remember another line from Frankenstein,
this one in a frantic warning to the good doctor:
“You have created a monster, and it will destroy
you!”
Too late.
The torches are lit.
And the
villagers are coming.
