Palooka – A prize fighter who agrees to purposefully lose a prize fight in exchange for some form of remuneration.
October’s Winner – John Kasich, Governor of Ohio
What makes the palooka an invaluable tool for mobsters looking to put the fix in on some fight in which they’ve bet heavily on the underdog, is that ability of everyone involved to convince the betting public that every thing is on the up and up. When the palooka takes his dive and kisses the canvas, it will garner no profit for the bad guys if nobody is surprised to see it happen. Keep that lesson in mind when you think of John McCain and John Boehner. Every month I award a, “Palooka of the Month,” to that Republican politician who has taken the purposeful dive in order to subvert our principles at the last moment, when victory has seemed imminently possible, if not outright assured. Every month that the winner is not Boehner or McCain, I will get about a dozen and a half suggestions or helpful comments as to why this was a mistake on my part. Yes these two do more to subvert our cause than others, but gosh darn it, no one on our side should be surprised any more. Both of these men have a taste for canvas, and both will endeavor to kiss it when given that chance.
With that in mind, welcome to October’s winner. With so many in the Senate and House buckling under the pressure to restore an almost completely unnecessary federal behemoth to its fullest wasteful potential, it’s almost impossible to single any one out for being the top palooka. Absolutely horrendous is the only way to describe the conclusion to what turned out to be another fruitless and pointless battle that accomplished not only zero for our side, but managed to cede further ground in the process. Yes it can be argued that the continuation of our budget baseline remaining set at the 2008 number is somewhat of a victory, which will see spending remain based upon the sequestered number as the new growth point from which insanity will continue is actually a stronger victory than what people realize. The problem with this narrative however is that this was a non starter before this battle took place. This was never on the table, that is until the point of capitulation was inevitably reached, and our sided needed something to parade around to an angered base.
Something else has been going on under the radar of all of this, and that is the Republican Governors of some of the individual states caving in their own quiet manner. Governor Kasich of Ohio is the poster child of that stealth dive. He has agreed to accept the one specific part of Obamacare which the Supreme Court declared to be beyond the realm of Constitutionally Acceptable. John Kasich agreed to accept federal matching funds to expand Medicaid and Medicare sufficiently to accept the increasing number of people declared as eligible patients for the new system, ostensibly designed for the indigent and or elderly. He has agreed to thrust his state, a place where he hangs his laurel upon his previous effort and success in balancing a frightful budgetary shortfall, back into the world of run amok deficit spending.
This was the only avenue left to those people who care to slow down this sink hole of a law. So, while John Kasich tells us that he is in favor of getting rid of this POS on the one hand, he’s done his part to inflict it upon us on the other. At some point in the future, my guess is 2020, or 2024, Kasich himself will be running for President. Just remember then that he took this dive now. Our party is full of these canvas kissing parasites, timing their falls and spreading the opportunities out so that each in his turn can prevent the disbursement of power from leaving the federal behemoth and returning back to the citizens, while retaining the ability to say with a certain amount of honesty, 95% of the time I vote with you the base, on the important issues facing us today.
The Governors of individual states however are not in that position. They govern, and can not hide their betrayals among the increased numbers involved with legislation. That however does not make their betrayal easier to take, in fact, it enhances the pain. In this case, the single most egregious piece of Marxism to be inflicted upon a nation that purports to be the home of freedom has marched onward from the day our nation idiotically gave the White House, a super majority in the Senate, and the House to the political left. At every opportunity our side has had to block it from moving forward, someone from our side has thwarted that effort. John Kasich has just done his little part at the end of a very long line. Just remember in 6 or 10 years as he runs for President, that when he had his chance to eschew personal power, he did not.
