When it comes to culture, an induced delusion is far more
dangerous than an induced coma. This is why a sign that someone is coming out
their culturally induced delusion is a welcome sign. And this is what seems to
be happening to the editors of the Wall Street Journal who wrote:
“Corker-Cardin's Good Compromise,” an editorial that also came under the
subtitle: “Killing this oversight would only give Obama more Iran running
room.” It was published on May 2, 2015 in the Wall Street Journal.
In a habit that remains inexplicable, the editors begin
their piece by rendering homage not to the American system as put down by the
Founding Fathers, and not to the American President, Barack Obama who pulled
off the feat they describe, but to a dead foreigner, Winston Churchill, who
said something which the editors believe applies to the situation more than
anything else. It looks like these people are not yet completely out of their
state of delusion ... but it's a start.
Still, it is not surprising that the editors also signal
they accept what must look to them, and taste like bitter medicine, because the
alternative can only be worse. So you ask: What is the alternative? And they
answer: doing nothing or amending what's on the table … which is what they and
people like them had been advocating all along. So now you want to know: Who
suggested the elements that went into the Corker-Cardin compromise? And they
answer: President Barack Obama. But they hastily add: That's only because
democracy is the best system … like says Churchill, not the Founding Fathers or
Barack Obama.
They go on to explain why, in their view, the compromise
bill is better left as it is, than the attempts spearheaded by a couple of
Republican senators to amend it. And guess what; the editors complain that the
proposed amendments “would give Democrats the political excuse many of them
seek to vote against the bill.” And so you want to know if this is what
Churchill had in mind when he spoke of democracy. Or was it the craftsmanship
of the Founding Fathers? Or was it the political acumen of the Obama
Administration?
Don't wait for answers from the editors of the Wall Street
Journal who still suffer from the occasional flashback to the state of delusion
that kept them apart from the real world. Here is how that flashback manifests
itself: “In a better world – one in which Mr. Obama were not President – we'd
be inclined to agree with the critics.” And the reality they see is what would
make the Founding Fathers sing in their graves, while making Churchill roll in
his. It is this: “the Democrats need only 41 votes to filibuster … and only 34
to sustain a presidential veto.”
And like a child who cries over spilled milk, they whine:
“the legislation effectively inverts the Founders' intentions by allowing the
President to get his way with one-third of the Senate on his side.” But like
the child that cries, unable to explain how or why the milk was spilled, the
editors of the Journal fail to explain how it is that the bill inverted the
intent of the Founders without triggering the kind of Constitutional crisis
that would have landed it in the lap of the Supreme Court justices.
Only now do they say: “we step back to reality.” So you ask:
To do what? And they say to look at the reasons why the Administration spent so
much effort to defeat the Corker-Cardin bill before it was adopted by the
Senate committee with a 19-0 vote. Finally, you think, they are going to do
some analysis … some real brain work.
But no; they fail to do that. They disappoint you because
what they give instead is the same old steady diet that has been coming out the
Jewish propaganda machine for decades. Simply put, they tell you all about the
evil intent of everyone (except their friends, of course) and they tell you all
about the future, which they want you to believe they have the ability to see.
Thus, they say that the Administration fears a public debate
that will reveal the truth about “money being fungible,” the reason why the
evil Iranians will be able to take advantage of the sanctions relief and
“immediately use [it to] fund missiles for [the evil] Hezbollah, rockets for
[the evil] Hamas, and barrel bombs for [the evil] Bashar Assad.”