November 10, 2014
Mitch McConnell Makes It Official:
"Fooled 'Em Again."
by Gary North
OK, McConnell didn’t actually say this. I am stealing this line from the
greatest sports writer in American history, Jim Murray.
Murray wrote for the Los Angeles Times. If he had been a political
columnist, he would be legendary.
He had no time to polish his stories. After a game, he had to phone in
his column to the paper before the next day’s print run. He wrote it off
the top of his head, typed it, and phoned it in. He won the award as the
nation’s leading sports writer 16 times, 12 in a row.
Every time he finished a column, he leaned back in his chair and uttered
this line:
“Fooled
‘em again.
This line should be the epitaph of American national politics. But, like
a zombie, it keeps coming back, walking the streets, and eating people’s
brains.
SAVED FROM THE BRINK! (AGAIN)
Senator Mitch McConnell has articulated the
irrelevance of voting as no previous national political figure has in
American history. He has raised the bar.
On the website of
a local CBS affiliate station, this headline was run on November 4,
2014, the day of the mid-term Congressional elections: McConnell: ‘This
Is A Chance To Begin To Save This Country’. McConnell had announced this
the day before at a political rally.
The statement was reported across the nation’s media.
McConnell is the nation’s leading Republican spokesman. He was the
minority leader of the Senate on November 4, and he will be the majority
leader when the new Senate takes over on January 2. November 4 made this
a reality.
On November 5, after a sweeping victory of Republicans across the nation
on November 4,
McConnell said this: “We are not going to be shutting down the
government or defaulting on the national debt. I think we ought to start
with the view that maybe there are things we can agree on to make
progress in this country.”
In just one day, America had moved off the railroad track to the burning
trestle, and onto the excursion track, where everyone gets back safely in
the afternoon. Mitch McConnell is the friendly conductor. “Tickets,
please. Have your tickets ready.”
I see this as the most representative statement in the history of modern
American national politics on the nature of the futility of national
politics. Some people have said that politics is a choice between
Tweedledum and Tweedledee. I have long quoted Susan Huck: national
politics is a contest between Council on Foreign Relations Team A and
Council on Foreign Relations Team B. McConnell has made it
official.
In the rhetorical contrast between the professed magnitude of the issues
on the day before a national election vs. the promise of bipartisan
cooperation on the day after, I challenge anyone to find a more striking
example. McConnell has articulated the reality of American national
politics in these two statements.
Here is what impressed me: not merely the contrast, but the speed of the
reversal. What was life-and-death for the nation on November 3 was water
under the bridge on November 5. It was “let bygones be bygones.” It was
“a new day dawns.” In fact, the election was “a new day yawns.”
The game goes on. So does the federal deficit. So does American foreign
policy.
The NSA’s budget will not be cut or even officially admitted. Neither
will the budgets of the CIA and other intelligence agencies:
$53 billion in 2013. The Federal Register will publish 75,000+ pages
of fine-print rules in 2015, just as it did in 2013.
“I made a difference,” says the average voter. “My vote counted.” Yes, it
did. But it did not matter. Not nationally.
What is the primary function of voting? To keep voters pacified. It’s
cheap insurance for Washington.
The country is now saved. But it will be threatened again in two years.
Mark my words!
www.garynorth.com
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