- A Change You Can't Refuse

Does anyone else think it’s odd that the Democrats in government are doing all the things that the Corleone family did in "The Godfather"? “We have the unions and the gambling, and those are the best things to have.” said one memorable kraut-mick consiglieri. The union’s domination of the Obama Whitehouse is well documented and several left leaning state government’s are now embracing gambling as a means of producing tax revenue.

The next thing which the Corleone’s were interested in was drugs, and although the stodgy Don in The Godfather thought it was bad business, Don Barak apparently doesn’t feel that way. He’s pushing full force to get a cut of the drug (and general healthcare) trade. And everyone knows about how he negotiated with the Bank CEO's as if he had a pistol on the table.

I suppose I should be more disturbed that these days our government so closely resembles a criminal enterprise, but to be honest I’m surprised they aren’t being more straight forward about it. The Corleone family’s popularity hasn’t diminished since the 70’s and standard liberalism has had two major defeats during that time. Maybe they should quit the pretense of claiming to help the little guy and come clean by saying that they’re only trying to get and keep ‘turf’.

So based on this model, what happens next? Well I guess that depends on who you cast in the Al Pacino role. Joe Biden has been spending a lot of time overseas lately, but most people think he has more in common with Fredo than Michael Corleone. That would make Nancy Pelosi the Michael character since she was sent to Chine to keep her from the press after her 'The CIA lied to me" debacle. It's also pretty easy to imagine her bumping off the heads of the other five committees. Ted Kennedy will finally end up sleeping with the fishes, and Barney Frank will end up gun down in a revolving door someplace.

Personally I don’t think Don Barak’s lieutenants will be waiting until the funeral to turn on him, but I'm sure that's still a way off yet. But if I were Ben Bernanke I wouldn’t get in any car where David Axelrod or Rahm Emanual was sitting in the backseat. (Remember the ‘take the cannoli’s’ line?)

Personally I’ll be scanning the TV news to see who’s carrying an orange.