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 By Dennis Mullin

INSULT: Can you imagine? We have a President who has borrowed more money than all Presidents in U.S. history combined, wasted billions on idiotic priorities (see Solyndra), managed to use all of those trillions in three-short years to increase unemployment by hundreds of thousands, force tens of thousands of small businesses into bankruptcy and destroy the national spirit, and shipped guns to Mexican drug dealers to kill our own agents, gave terrorist the legal rights of the Americans they want dead – and now blames a Japanese tidal wave for all of the above? And his brilliant solution is to borrow even more money, and create more useless government bureaucratic jobs because they are unionized?

BAD JOKE: In a real world this would be regarded as a bad joke, but it is becoming more of cruel hoax. The great “progressive “ Keynesian economic, income-redistribution experiment is turning into a working man’s nightmare and a clear and present danger to the American way of life and our very form of government.  Far from apologizing to us for winning the 2008 election under blatantly false pretenses, the “progressives” and their unelected, untested state media allies are more interested in expanding the state even more and are openly expounding nationwide, nationalization. If it doesn’t work, try, try again. They want to destroy the American system.

DEPRESSION:  Let’s start with the excuses first.  “This is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft, and we didn’t have the same competitive edge that we needed,” Obama told a Florida TV station.  Can you believe it? The housing collapse caused by government-promoted lax mortgage loan standards and low interest policies are our fault? Because they balk at giving him even more money to waste the Republican and Tea Parties are “unpatriotic”? The lousy economy and the higher taxes he seeks are the result of us going “soft”? Obama’s policies are designed to prevent us from creating jobs. To him a strong person doesn’t work and borrows more? Give me a break.

The country is headed toward a 21st century version of a depression, an economic term that, unlike a recession, defies a standard definition but creates images of soup lines, 25 percent unemployment and a devastated economy. “Here we are today, with a severe recession (2007-09) followed by the weakest recovery on record and now on the precipice of another economic downturn,” David Rosenberg, senior economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff in Toronto wrote. “This is a modern-day depression, not entirely dissimilar to Japan’s post-bubble experience of the past two decades.” Goldman Sachs says the chances of a recession in 2012 are 40%, with unemployment at 9.5%.

BAD NUMBERS: Rosenberg takes issue with the standard gauge of a recession being two consecutive quarters of negative growth, and rather says he measures peaks in sales activity, jobs, industrial production and income growth. The U.S. already has had something of a lost decade, Rosenberg reasons, citing stock values still around 1998 levels and little net job growth. This is occurring even despite unprecedented policy measures such as the wasted $800 billion in government stimulus. ”Simply put, an economic depression occurs only once it becomes painfully obvious that the markets and the economy are failing to respond to repeated bouts of policy stimulus,” Rosenberg said.

WHAT, ME WORRY? Is Obama concerned? Apparently not. If you look at realclearpolitics.com -- a compendium of top stories from the national media -- the predictably slanted headlines are proof positive that the mainstream media is officially dead. It is totally bought and sold on white guilt, and infatuated with dreams of bloody class warfare, riots in the streets, the glory of the 1960s, never graduating from college and being led by a black messiah to a paradise of free dope where nobody ever works or gets sick. Like the protestors on Wall Street they chant, “What do we want? Everything.  When to we want it? Always.”

SYCOPHANTS: According to the New York Times, Salon, Huffington and other sycophants, everything is fine as the house collapses. Former NYT editor Harrison Rainie tells us from his mansion in Great Falls, Va., that class warfare is a good thing. Current editor Keller believes nobody should be President who believes in God and Obama is great. Maureen Dowd says Gov. Christie is a bully, and Michael Kinsley says the New Jersey Gov. can’t be President because he is too fat. These are the people who think you are too dumb take care of yourself and would serve as Obama’s Politburo – while Michael Bechloss swoons over Obama’s IQ and Chris Mathews leg keeps twitching 

REAL BULLIES: Meanwhile the Democrats in Congress which won’t vote for the President’s absurd proposals are busy trying to squash dissent – such a worthy task. In a stunning turn of events, that barrel of laughs, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., used an arcane legislative maneuver to effectively rewrite Senate rules to make it harder for the minority party to force uncomfortable votes on the majority. The buildup started when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tried to force a vote on President Obama's jobs bill as well as other Republican priorities by offering them as amendments to the China currency bill; Reid blocked the move.

McConnell made what's called a "motion to suspend the rules," to allow a vote on the amendments. Such motions are almost always defeated, because they require a two-thirds majority to pass. But they're another way for the minority party to force uncomfortable votes – such as the hilarious jobs bill few Democrats will vote for (now,if you love me…. Obama). Even though the minority party doesn't get a direct vote on the amendment, how somebody votes on the motion becomes a sort of proxy for such a vote. In this case, for instance, if Democrats had voted down a motion for a vote on Obama's jobs bill, it would have put them in an awkward spot. Though it's been the standing practice of the Senate to allow such motions by the minority, Reid broke with precedent and ruled McConnell's motion out of order, and was ultimately backed up by Democrats.

Coming Coup? So, the end result is that by a simple majority vote, Reid was able to effectively rewrite Senate rules making it even harder than it already is for the minority party to force votes on any amendments. Should Republicans retake the Senate next year, it's something that could come back to haunt Democrats in a major way.

In the last week, the Democratic governor of North Carolina seriously opined that we ought to postpone congressional elections so that congressmen would “do the right thing.” Peter Orzag this week wrote of wanting to shift even more decision-making from our elected representatives to elitist boards appointed by our betters. The way things are going, the “progressives” may try to pull a military coup before a new President can take office after next year’s vote. Seriously.