Idiot Bumper Stickers, Part 3

Someone has plastered a very blogworthy bumper sticker to a garbage can in a building near where I work -- as if a bumper sticker is an argument, a building full of liberals needs to be told what it said to believe it, or liberals are generally concerned with arguments in the first place -- but I can't find it online yet, so that blog will have to wait for my digital camera or the search engines to catch up with the bumper sticker....

But in the process of looking for that bumper sticker, I have found another treasure!


This bumper sticker takes the cake for being wrong on so many levels at once.

First, the Dembocrats -- and I think we should all start spelling the name of that party with a silent "b" -- tried to make political hay out of the slow federal response to Katrina. But the incompetence and corruption of the locals (mostly Dembocrats, whose permission was required, but not granted, for some components of the federal response to occur at all) made that seem innocuous. And just wait until the investigation into the inadequate levees gets into full swing!

And then they and their obedient servants in the media tried to make this into a case for an expansion of the welfare state. But the petulance and belligerence of so many of those we were to feel pity for worked against that even before various pundits noted that the welfare state caused many of the problems that Katrina merely exposed. While the American people are not exactly pro-capitalist, they don't like high taxes, and do not want to be taken advantage of. The welfare state is a political loser, Katrina and Jesse Jackson notwithstanding.

But none of this will stop some of them from trying to win an election on Katrina, and the wrong election at that! News flash: The next federal elections are in 2006, aka this year, in case the Dembocrats have forgotten. Such a feat of stupidity could only be exceeded by the party feeling its oats so much that it smugly regards the midterms as being in the bag. Sure, the Republicans, with their snouts in the big government trough, are doing their best to help, but the Dembs still need all the help they can get.

But even at my lowest estimate of the political acumen of the Dembs, I can't see either of these. So what other reason could there be for the date on this bumper sticker? Ah! It's the presidential election they're going to win, propelled by the winds of Katrina! If they think Americans are idiots for electing Bush, how do they expect us to even still have a mental association between New Orleans, Katrina, and the Presidency three whole years after the storm?

The most parsimonious explanation for the date is that 2008 is the soonest that the much despised George W. Bush can be removed from the White House. Indeed, Bush was all but blamed for the hurricane itself, and it is he, personally, who is the focus of all the bile spewed forth from the left after the storm. So whichever Republican runs in 2008, Bush was blamed for Katrina, not he.

This is a completely brain-dead bumper sticker. The best response is to shrug and say, "Psst! Don't worry, pal! He can't even run in '08!"

-- CAV