CRITIC:  My personal artistic assesment of your Blog posting this outing is that it's all together too blue and too lacking in Contrast.
MARCUS ARELIUS:  Well, to a Conservative Republican, that's just how the electoral vote tally will look to him when all the dust has settled come this November.


Born on the State House steps of Michigan
From a brood of Mormons he's a son of a gun
Raise in a factory so's he knew every tree
Brought Orson Wells down- when he was only three


Talkin' about -
Willard, Willard Romney
The President for you and me


Went to Massachusetts and he served a spell
He passed Obomney Care we thought that all was well
Expanded abortion rights as I hear tell
Till he heard the tolling of that Tea Party bell


He is Mittens, Mittens Romney
The guy who'll take down you and me


The right wing pushed him up against the wall
People were wondering if he had the gall
But he flip-flopped all around and surprised us all
And even had the nerve to take on Ron Paul


His name is Corpor-ration Romney
He lets the banksters all go Free


He won six states in a ten state race
Exponged all moral decency without a trace
He campaigned bold to set the billionaire free
He's pledged to stop Obama's spending spree


His name is Willard, Willard Romney
The C E O for you and me


By Now I guess Stephanie Miller has figured out that I'm pretty good at playing that classic Stephen King game of "Can You?"  Now Sarah Palin was caught on the caucus cam defending Rush Limbaugh.  Can there be any doubt that Rush Limbaugh is the defacto head of the Republican Party.  Newt Gingrich last June tried to go against Rush Limbaugh with his "right wing social engineering" remark, and Rush called him out on it, and Newt backed down. When Michael Steel came against Rush he was slept down by the Rush-meister.  And even House Speaker Baner was criticized by the big El Rushbo for being too "consiliatory" and "Letting the President walk all over him" as to the scheduling of that Labor and jobs speech last September.  First we heard seven sponsors left Rush Limbaugh, and by the next day the figure was up to twelve, and the day after that it was twenty-three, and now we hear the figure is even higher.  How can the Koch Brothers and Grover Norquist continue to bank roll this "loss leader" of the radio market?  Rush, unlike normal people, could afford to lose a lot of money and still have the financial where with all to soldier on.  But there will come a point and we may soon be there where there is a "Coup" within the Republican Party leadership, and El Rushbo will be a thing of the past, and like Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein before him, statues of him will be toppled outside the radio studios of America.  Some have speculated whether Rush Limbaugh is on the Obama payroll because up till now people like Newt and Ricky might have been able to say "we on the right were making real progress at mustering political ammunition against this President for his economic spending spree - - but the big Blowhard from Palm Beach ruined it for all of us.  And alas the saying is true that "nobody could possible write this stuff as a novel".


Mittens Romney won six states yesterday.  Newt took Georgia as some sort of southern revenge for Shermon's March to the Sea in 1864.  But Santorum took Tennessee, Oklahoma and North Dakoda, where next week "the Sun isn't gona shine any more" for school kids waiting for the bus along side a cold wind swept road.  Yeah, I guess I quoted the Walker Brothers but don't worry - I don't have N D mixed up with Wisconsin.  N D is a "broken cross" alias Peace Sign in semaphore and Wisconsin is one of those "take two" gesture with the sticks and stuff.  So Romney took Massachusetts, Vermont, Newt's Virginia, Idaho (that Mormon enclave) and even Sarah Palin's Alaska, apparently.  So basically Mitt did better than I was expecting he would last evening.  So what happened to "all those Southern States" where Newt was going to "Clean up on" on Super Tuesday and reestablish himself as a resurgent and still viable candidate?  That didn't happen.  So I don't know.  People said that one third of all party deligates were up for grabs yesterday.  Personally I don't see how the figure is any where that high.  A fifth or sixth of the deligates seems a bit more realistic.


President Obama is well aware of which side of the toast his electoral constituincy is buttered on, or whatever.  Is the President is going to err on the subject of Iran, he's going to err on the side of Hawkishness, to please the Atlanta crowd, and all the other hawks out there who are looking for metaphorical chickens out there to get their jollies with.  For now it seems that Iran is a more suitable candidate than Syria.  I think Syria is protected by Megan's law in the guise of a Russia and Chinese veto in the UN.  Iran is kind of a convienient emotional target just as Saddam Hussein was.  We have been pumped and primed as to our proper "stimulus response" should be with those nations.  It would seem that the President has exhibited a willingness to go all the way - - in the light of endless Republican probers into his personal credentials to even be President now.  Maybe if he attacks Iran's Nukes, people will believe he's not really a Kenyan with all of the attendent "Anti British Colonialism" stuff.  Personally I think the wise thing is to "let the sanctions work" but we've been down this road with Saddam Hussein.  Pat Buchannon said "We had Saddam Hussein in a box" and I think if we get Akmedinajab to agree to "international inspecters" well will also have him in a box, and Pandora will have to take a long, and hopefully Permanent Vacation.


My first novel "For What It's Worth" was about the End of the World set in November of 1973.  During the final weeks of 1973 and on into 1974 the world as we knew it was coming to an end.  We actually have Richard Nixon and Jerry Ford to blame for the bad economy and hyper inflation that occured then, the wake of which is what Reagan ran against in 1980 and won.  People in 1974 saw it differently.  Never again would Wages have the earning power they did them.  This was phase one of the long gas lines and we had odd / even rationing here in California.  Of course about the only driving I was doing in early 1974 was to consult with my bail bondsman to make sure everything was still kopecetic.  And of course to drive to the Paccoima Chamber of Congress as hired consultent as to how the good people can improve the image of their city.  John Lennon released "Walls and Bridges" and in my world there were all together too many Walls and not enough Bridges.  It was kind of the End of at least Phase I of the Classic Rock era.  The last album of the Michael Bruce incarnationof Alice Cooper came out at the turn of the year 1974 and ditto for Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and Black Sabbath (at least for some time to come) and it was the last decent album Chicago put out at the beginning of 1974 with Chicago VII.  Deep Purple was in its final throws.  The Who was planning a sequel to Quadrafinia called "Octavian" but when Mark Antony personally threatened Pete Townshend at the point of a sword, the Who gave up the idea, and began their sink into Ovlivian.  Of course Alice Cooper said good-bye to other space cadets in his band such as Neil and Glen.  The last John Lennon that actually had a MAJORITY of the songs worth listening to came out in late 1973.  


This morning I had Raison Bran for breakfast and pancakes and a single strip of bacon hand delivered tome by Jimmy Mc Culloch himself all the way from Junior's Farm.  Economically I have learned the truth since yesterday that when other people have money, I have money because other people can afford to buy my coffee.  But returning to 1973 for the moment Pete Richards was off on his second European tour of 1973 with his band.  I kid you not.  He missed the funeral of my grandmother who had a myro-cartio infarction under a full moon.  I don't know how Grandpa took the news because Sylvia Brown was not available for comment.  Pink Floyd was on an ongoing state of Ecclipse.  John Fogerty decided to give his vocal chords a rest.  David Bowie lost what proved not to be an "indespensable member".  The Almon Brothere were suddenly no more.  There were cosmic signs such as that comet Kahutic, which was roomered to appear as bright as the day when it came.  Meanwhile tricky dick was messing around with the nation's clocks, leaving us all in the dark.  The Christian wheel of fortune people were playing letter numerology games with Henry Kissinger's name, hoping to sell more books, no doubt. I was wrapping up what would be my last semester at Cypress for a long time. The Exorcist was tearing up the Box Office charts making us begin to wonder whether our own tween might be a "bad seed", or is it just your garden variety Alcyonne demon.  But as long as we're talking about planting seeds - - the economic seeds of discord the Republicans complained about in 1980 were actually planted during this period.  It was a time when a lot of people were jumping ship and leaving the bands they were in, or in Wall Street's case, investors jumping out the window.  It was a time when as a people we lost sight of the "Yellow Brick Road" that led to that City of Opportunity off just beyond the poppy fields, where it's mandated by the local hippies that people mellow out a little before their final enterence into the City.  As Jim Morrison said when he decided to part company with the Federation for his native Andromeda D, "Tomorrow I enter the land of my Birth.  I want to be Ready".