Didn’t you get Yamashita’s Memo?

In late 2008, Rahm Emanuel made famous the phrase “Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste.” It was an unabashed entreaty to liberals frustrated by years of pent up designs to advance the socialization of America. Obama, Reid and Pelosi wasted no time while a stupefied citizenry watched the unfolding of a theretofore unimagined agenda.

Less than two years later another crisis has presented itself, the nature of which is surely an exception to Rahm’s axiom; a crisis within.

Within the party that is.

A handful of survivors of the electoral razing of the democratic party are not unlike those famous Japanese soldiers hiding in tunnels on remote isles months after V-J Day…

In 1944, Lt. Hiroo Onoda was sent by the Japanese army to the remote Philippine island of Lubang. His mission was to conduct guerrilla warfare during World War II. Unfortunately, he was never officially told the war had ended; so for 29 years, Onoda continued to live in the jungle, ready for when his country would again need his services and information. Eating coconuts and bananas and deftly evading searching parties he believed were enemy scouts, Onoda hid in the jungle until he finally emerged from the dark recesses of the island on March 19, 1972.

Some liberal democrats are figuratively living on Lubang, off the grid, not recognizing that Americans have soundly rebuked the extreme leftist agenda inflicted on them.

Liberals made clear Tuesday what they want from the bipartisan deficit commission — more help for the poor and middle class and bigger corporate tax increases.

Americans made clear that what they want is for their government to get out of the way, to cease disincenting those that would otherwise be spending, borrowing and investing in ways that create jobs for everyone, especially for the poor and middle class.

Mathematically, you can’t increase taxes enough on corporations or the wealthy to make even the slightest dent in the deficit let alone the national debt.  Eventually, either by choice or by force, the federal government will have to cut spending and by extension, entitlements.

Moderate and conservative commission members, who compose the bulk of the panel, have been more circumspect. After co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson offered their proposal last week — focused 2 to 1 on spending cuts over tax increases — the commission’s three Republican House members tentatively welcomed their approach.

The Tea Party may have given rise to a Regressive Movement in America, where once and for all, a majority will press the federal government and those it has enslaved by decades of sedimentary entitlements to do more with less, across the board.

…but not without a fight from the hardy few on Lubang.

But liberals were outraged. They tend to favor activist government, help for the needy and higher taxes on wealth to pay for it. Moderates and conservatives are more inclined to reduce government services to cut government debt and are less willing to raise taxes.

Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said: “Democrats should fight loudly and clearly — because the public overwhelmingly wants Democrats to fight that fight.”

Not anymore Adam. The war is over. You can go home now.

4 thoughts on “Didn’t you get Yamashita’s Memo?

  1. Nice analogy, JR.

    They say that banning earmarks would be a largely symbolic gesture. Each congress critter makes at least $174,000 a year with Cadillac health care and a great retirement plan. Another good “symbolic gesture” would be having them join the rest of us in the middle class. I bet they could all scrape by on $100,000 a year. Or less.

  2. For the nearly three decades I’ve followed politics, it’s never the fat, ie: supercillious programs or overhead positions that get cut, it’s the muscle and bone of basic services that get threatened or cut. If we still have the military doing desert training in Alaska or if we have eight carrier battle groups when geopolitical reality says we only need four, I’m all for cutting that type of spending. Instead we get, “cut Medicare, kill old people” scenarios that don’t really cut that much and serve as nothing other than to scare people into voting Democrat.
    I am not against members of Congress getting 175K or more a year in salary for long hours spent with uninteresting people and dealing with constituents, who even in the reddest of the red districts are constantly begging them for something. What IS insulting to the intelligence are the lifetime pensions and healthcare. They get unelected (like Daschle or Lott) and show back up at the Capitol as a 7-figure/year lobbyist while collecting a federal pension.
    Pensions are for people who aren’t smart enough to know that they have to save/invest for retirement or will never make enough money in their working years to save for retirement. It is pretty much out of fashion now that we have the educated work force we have now – except in government where we supposedly have all these highly paid, highly educated people who in addition to out earning their private sector counterparts also get a sweet pension and lifetime healthcare to boot.

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