The New OCD
If one had any remaining doubts regarding the fitness of the Democrats to govern the nation, those apprehensions would be dispelled after witnessing the hearing held last week before Senator Barbara Boxer’s Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. The topic of the hearing was the energy needs of the nation.
In an attempt to dress down and trivialize the remarks of Harry C. Alford, President and CEO of the Black Chamber of Commerce, Boxer made a number of references to other “black” entities - including a resolution of the NAACP and a letter from one “John Grant,” the CEO of “A Hundred Black Men of Atlanta” - purporting to support Boxer’s viewpoint, and seeking thereby to undermine Alford’s.
Alford, an Army veteran, laid into Boxer, as any rational American -white, black, brown or plaid - should have done. He correctly noted that her only purpose was to inject race into a discussion on energy and to engage in condescending remarks attempting to pit other “black” groups against his “black” group, warning her that she was going down a very dangerous road.
By playing the race card against a black American - and an Army veteran to boot - Boxer merely underscored her own venality and that of the leftists who have hijacked the once-rational, but now merely Obamacentric Democratic Party. But the words here don’t fully convey Alford’s anger: watch the YouTube clip.
Oh, and throughout the exchange, Alford persisted in addressing her as “m’am,” and Boxer didn’t bat an eye. Contrast that reaction to what happened when Michael Walsh, an Anglo Army brigadier general testifying at a different hearing, used the term only once, with Boxer chillingly requesting him to address her as “senator” because she “worked so hard to get that title.” There is a great parody follow-up to that exchange on YouTube which captures the essence of what most Americans would have liked to see Brigadier General Walsh say and what most Americans now think of her.
Bottom line: Boxer, as a typical Obamacentric Compulsive Democrat - giving new meaning to the term OCD - is today’s poster-child for all that is wrong with the Democrats now controlling Congress. They are a collection of arrogant, elitist hypocrites intoxicated and corrupted by the power of a majority membership, rendering them well-suited to dictate as would a garden-variety tyrant, but absolutely unfit to govern a free people.
The time for pitchforks and torches is drawing closer.