There's Something Happening Here...

And what it is may not be exactly clear yet, but we like the feel of it. We think Samuel Adams. would like it, too. Brushfires of freedom are stirring among the people, and the America of the founding is rising up again in the minds of the people. Because we’re in an Orwellian era where the government and mainstream media speak with essentially the same voice, this feeling is a little hard to pick up, and many who have picked it up are afraid to trust it. But we at Brushfires trust it, because we think there’s power behind it that can’t be defeated.

Consider connecting these dots of recent news:

• Mark Levin’s book, “Liberty and Tyranny” was released on March 23rd, and is flying off the shelves, already No. 1 at Amazon, and No. 1 at Barnes and Noble. We’ve read it, and would encourage everyone to do so. We’ll let the professional book reviewers delve into its content; for our part, the mere title of the book promotes a focusing of thought on the real crux of America’s crisis: are we going to trust ourselves as the free men and women of one Creator, or are we going to yield to some subset of godless elitists called ‘government’? Levin’s book is going to be read by thinkers of all stripes, and Americans—which we define as every human being who loves freedom and has a sense of where it comes from—are going to find in it extremely valuable and timely validation and inspiration. Ideas matter; ideas move thought—and Mark Levin’s book is filled with right ideas.

• Last Sunday’s New York Times included an editorial and three anti-Obama columns from previous Obama sycophants (including Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd). Now they aren’t anti-Obama in the same way a conservative would be, but to go negative at all is a big step, and our guess is that what they really feel is substantially more negative than what they were willing to put in print. This has major implications on Obama’s all-important ‘approval rating’—see below.

• The vaunted Obama loyalist hordes were reported to have been unleashed around the country over the weekend to encourage support for Obama’s budget—knocking on ‘a million doors’, as press secretary Gibbs put it—but there doesn’t seem to be any impact being registered in Washington. We think the hordes of Obama supporters—if they exist at all—are not even capable of knowing what the budget is, much less articulating the arguments for or against it. We also doubt that beyond a few staged photo-ops, there was much of an effort at all. There is no grassroots passion in favor of this budget.

• Soon after a weekend which was supposed to have seen these persuasive Obama hordes in neighborhoods all over the country, John Zogby commented on a poll he hadn’t yet released, but which he said showed the American public in about a 50/50 split for and against the budget. The Democrat pollster went out of his way to explain the poll results as not due to the string of Obama gaffes but some complex political dynamic of expectations vs. actions. We call “BS”. Here’s our take: Zogby is stretching every inch of whatever remains of his integrity to put a 50/50 conclusion on his poll. We’d bet the actual results are showing disapproval growing rapidly and exceeding approval. But Zogby and every other Democrat knows that the only thing holding this government together, and keeping the Republicans acting like sheep, is the Obama ‘approval rating’. Once they lose that, the entire Obama agenda will be in major trouble. When the lead New York Times columnists turn on Obama, we frankly believe the real approval rating is already below 50%. The pollsters are going to hold back as long as they can on releasing these and other negative results in the hopes that Obama can have a good week or two and pull them back up. But it’s not going to happen. Radical left doesn’t play well in America, and now the people know that’s what Obama represents.

• A recent Stanley Greenberg poll (and remember, Greenberg is the guy who is buddies with Emanuel, Carville, Begala, et.al.) shows Americans identifying themselves as Republican and Democrat in equal proportions (42/42, with the balance unwilling to identify with either party). This is a significant upswing for Republicans, yet it follows a calculated campaign by Greenberg, Emanuel, Carville, and Begala to demonize Rush Limbaugh as the leader of the Republicans. We said from the beginning of their campaign that nothing could be better for America than the assault on Limbaugh, because he still has 15 hours a week to articulate his message without filtration or censorship. When Americans actually hear him, instead of concocted sound bites of him, they love his message.

• Attendance at the recent tea parties in Cincinnati, Lexington, and Orlando dwarfed the less than 100 people who showed up at some DC-based protest of the Afghan war. But the mainstream media covers only the anti-war protest.

Put all of these dots together—especially the last one—and we are very encouraged that the American heritage of individual freedom and responsibility under God is being reawakened around the country. The last dot may appear discouraging as evidence of the media’s continuing bias. It is evidence of bias, but it is so transparent as bias that it serves the overall cause of stirring the people.

We’ve learned not to trust entirely in what the eyes and ears report—that the picture they present does not always tell what is going on behind the picture. The mainstream media’s pictures are the most unreliable of all reports—not only because they are shaped by the eyes and ears of biased reporters, but because those reporters are unable and unwilling to see or discern anything deeper. Right now they have so much invested in Obama as their chosen, brilliant leader that they want to believe the majority of people see him in the same way and are in step with the direction he’s taking. So they can’t see these dots or connect them.

But we find great encouragement from them. If the nation were as the media wishes it were, Levin’s book would have a fringe market; the New York Times columnists would be confident; the Obama loyalists would either be more visible or more effective; Zogby wouldn’t be so defensive; the anti-Limbaugh campaign would drive big numbers toward Democrat identification; and tea parties would be isolated and small.

We think the tide of informed opinion has turned, and the rest of the country will follow. The Beltway Republicans may be the last to find out; they will continue to be timid and cautious, and the media will continue to find ways to concoct an approval rating for Obama that will keep them under wraps. But they can’t hold this fraud together much longer. It’s been exposed, and it’s unraveling.

We think the radical left agenda of Obama is supported by a hard core of about 5% of Americans, and maybe another 20% who are too mesmerized to understand the merits of alternatives. But a very, very strong majority does not support it. Over half of those didn’t vote for Obama in the election, and the balance wouldn’t have voted for him had they been awake and had Obama not had ‘the first African American President’ appeal going for him. But they are all awake now; a majority is already fighting mad, and the rest are getting there day by day.

The Obama fraud is going to be undone. Truth is not mocked. Truth always wins.

Paul Gable

Posted March 24, 2009