Too Much Information

TMI
It used to just be a silly schoolgirl phrase, or a way to tease your friends when they spilled something personally embarrassing. Now it's a political strategy by to Obama administration.
Despite the fact that we have become a 24/7 Media world, even the media can't keep up with what Obama is pushing down the pipe. Just last week, you had the battle over Gitmo, Heath care, and Cap and Trade. and new CAFE standards. Not to mention the credit card protection act, Obama's speech at Notre Dame and talks of the impending GM bankruptcy. This is all in one week. How is the regular Joe out there supposed to follow all of this? I'm going to let you in on a little secret - they want you overwhelmed.
I heard someone make the analogy of the media pipeline being about 6" in diameter and the administration pushing 18 inches of information through it each day. No wonder the White House felt the need to create their own "media" release when the UCONN Lady Huskies came to visit. Every other reporter was busy with the 40 other stories that day.
When Obama said "CHANGE" he wasn't kidding. Debate has gone right out the window. You are going to get nationalized health care, despite the fact that we have no idea what it will look like. Maybe that's why he can't rally his own party to fund his closing of Gitmo. The plan is short on, well to be honest, a plan.
Just wait because the best is yet to come. Cap and Trade is the largest tax hike on all economic "classes" ever. Once again, a plan is sprinting through the House, but there hasn't been a lot of open debate on this. We really haven't even had the debate over whether we need it. Personally, I'm not a big fan of walking through my house feeling like I'm in a eclectically lit hallway from a fight scene in a Jason Bourne movie, but get used to it. (BTW, just for fun I did install some compact fluorescent bulbs in my basement stairwell, now I bounce off the walls when I go downstairs. It really does feel like I'm in a movie.) Compact fluorescents are just the beginning. I had a discussion with a friend who works for a wind turbine manufacturer the other day. Even he admitted that they couldn't survive if it wasn't for government subsidies, they can't compete with coal. Do you ever hear that though? All you hear is that they are "good", not bad like coal and oil.
I find it terribly ironic that the man who campaigned on "transparency" is giving us the equivalent of a laser show. So many thing are happening on a daily basis that no one can follow all of them and remain sane. And the best part about a laser show is that everyone looks at the pretty colors, while you never know what's happening in darkness on the floor below. Of course, having a few media outlets in your back pocket, NBC and the New York Times to be specific, only helps in this charade.
When you lose even the chance at debate, the days of the republic are limited. Of course, there are quite a few people who don't really care and think politics isn't for them. In this case the TMI means anything relating to politics is just a bother. Ignorance is bliss.
At some point the American people are going to wake up to a country that looks nothing like what the Founding Fathers put together. Since I'm an extremist fear monger, I believe we have already crossed that line.
The next time you watch the news, ask yourself what you aren't hearing about, or what's already happened while everyone was looking somewhere else.
Then again, maybe everything is TMI. It's your choice my friend.
Welcome to "Change".