After 100 days, tables have turned
Dillon Kronert
Issue date: 5/6/09 Section: Campus Talk
The Democrats now have control of the executive and legislative branches, but the Republicans have put up a stubborn fight. President Obama and Congress have been bending over backward to get some slack from the Republicans. In a time when the country needs a united Congress more than ever, it has dissolved to the status of a high-school cafeteria, complete with feuding cliques.
Yet, as I've watched Republican reactions to Obama on things like tax hikes, I realized something. Somewhere along the way, we must have stumbled into an alternate dimension. A political twilight zone where the roles of Democrats and Republicans have switched.
The first sign of this was when I saw Glenn Beck cry on Fox News. However, I should've known for sure when California passed Prop. 8. I mean, who would've thought Iowa, of all states, would be the one to re-energize the movement for gay marriage?
How did this happen? No one's really sure, but let's take a look at the evidence.
This tax season was marked by semi-mass TEA parties. During the Bush administration, there were mass protests by liberals. They held signs calling Bush a tyrannical dictator. Some had pictures portraying him as Adolf Hitler. Fox News pundits, like Sean Hannity, were denouncing the protesters; almost to the point of claiming dissent was unpatriotic.
But if you watched Fox News this tax season, you saw hypocrisy at its finest. Hannity and company were praising conservative protesters holding signs that called Obama a tyrannical dictator and portraying him as - you guessed it - Hitler.
What the hell happened? Dissent became patriotic. We're in a parallel world where liberals have become the mindless drones standing behind their tyrannical leader and the conservatives have become the crazy, protesting, silenced minority. Fox News has become the voice of the people, CNN is the establishment and pirates still exist. Or at least that's what we're led to believe.
Obama promised change, but I'm not sure if this is what he had in mind. This is only the beginning of his presideny. It's going to be an interesting ride as it progresses. Expect the unexpected.
Yet, as I've watched Republican reactions to Obama on things like tax hikes, I realized something. Somewhere along the way, we must have stumbled into an alternate dimension. A political twilight zone where the roles of Democrats and Republicans have switched.
The first sign of this was when I saw Glenn Beck cry on Fox News. However, I should've known for sure when California passed Prop. 8. I mean, who would've thought Iowa, of all states, would be the one to re-energize the movement for gay marriage?
How did this happen? No one's really sure, but let's take a look at the evidence.
This tax season was marked by semi-mass TEA parties. During the Bush administration, there were mass protests by liberals. They held signs calling Bush a tyrannical dictator. Some had pictures portraying him as Adolf Hitler. Fox News pundits, like Sean Hannity, were denouncing the protesters; almost to the point of claiming dissent was unpatriotic.
But if you watched Fox News this tax season, you saw hypocrisy at its finest. Hannity and company were praising conservative protesters holding signs that called Obama a tyrannical dictator and portraying him as - you guessed it - Hitler.
What the hell happened? Dissent became patriotic. We're in a parallel world where liberals have become the mindless drones standing behind their tyrannical leader and the conservatives have become the crazy, protesting, silenced minority. Fox News has become the voice of the people, CNN is the establishment and pirates still exist. Or at least that's what we're led to believe.
Obama promised change, but I'm not sure if this is what he had in mind. This is only the beginning of his presideny. It's going to be an interesting ride as it progresses. Expect the unexpected.
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