Gorbamastein: The Political Monster Turns On Its Creators

Posted by Gordon on February 17, 2010 at 7:51pm

Gorbamastein: The Political Monster Turns on Its Creators
By Jeffrey Lord on 2.16.10 @ 6:08AM

Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
-- John Milton, Paradise Lost (X.743-5)

It's alive! It's alive!

From Indiana to Connecticut to North Dakota to Rhode Island to the radio airwaves, with reminders of its looming presence appearing in everything from the ending of political careers to snowstorms to bad polls to sub-basement cable ratings and an angry vanishing talk radio network, the monster lurks. Shape-shifting to materialize in forms as varied as a bureaucracy-laden health care plan, a climate change scam, massive debt, a New York trial for 9/11 terrorists and the Mirandizing of the underwear bomber, a political terror of hideous proportion stalks the land.

Like the classic 1818 Mary Shelley tale of Frankenstein, long-ago launched into modern popular culture with the iconic1931 film featuring Boris Karloff as the monster created by Victor Frankenstein, the combined policy obsessions of former Vice President Al Gore and President Obama, aided and abetted by congressional Democrats, are terrifying the electorate. Stirring a furious response -- even as the monster now turns on its creators and the various Igor-like assistants who eagerly went along with the ideas that created it.

Frankenstein, of course, referred in the original Shelley novel to the creator of the monster -- not the monster itself. Yet the powerful visual impact of the movie re-launched Shelley's tale so graphically the name of the creator began to be applied ever-after to the now universally known image of Karloff as "Frankenstein" -- the once innocent monster turned evil, stitched together by an arrogant, corrupt and quite mad scientist from the parts of dead bodies. Including, in one memorable scene, a specimen from a jar labeled "Abnormal Brain." With help, of course, from "Fritz" -- the Igor of the piece.

Thus repackaged, "Frankenstein" became the very symbol of an out-of-control, sinister and frighteningly powerful dehumanized creature, its creator a man of arrogant intelligence who knew no boundaries as he went about the business of creating a monster synonymous with bringing horrifying death and destruction wherever it went.

So too is it the case with the political monster that must surely be called "Gorbamastein" -- a terrifyingly out-of-control political creature stitched together from parts of dead ideas, concocted out of the abnormal brain that is the combined intellectual arrogance exhibited by both Gore, Obama, and their allies. The resulting monster let loose on the American political landscape is now relentlessly destroying both political careers and credibility in one terrifying political disaster after another for Democrats, with voters furiously turning on the monster even as the monster turns on its creators.

Sightings or reminders of Gorbamastein are now being reported almost daily, along with increasing reports of the furious response from angry villagers --- that would be voters -- as well.

Here are but a few of the Gorbamastein sightings as reported since January of 2009.

• Climategate: The monster has appeared in the global warming debate, as it refuses to answer questions challenging the science of global warming, responding that it's "kind of silly" to keep debating the science.

It later emerges that the scientific data on which Gorbamastein wants to launch massive government spending programs is "flawed."

• Healthcare: Gorbamastein snarls that Americans who oppose the monster health care plan are "un-American" and compares them to Nazis.

• The Economy: Gorbamastein insisted that if its $787 billion stimulus plan were passed, unemployment would not go above 8%.

It is now officially at 9.7%, with many Americans giving up their search for a job, and unemployment hitting record double-digit rates in many states, California being but one. The flow of seemingly unstoppable red-ink -- trillions of dollars worth -- becomes the signature trail of the monster.

• Terrorism: Gorbamastein announces the mastermind of 9/11 will not be tried at a military tribunal in Guantanamo but rather at a civilian trial in New York City, to the applause of the Fritzes at the New York Times.

• The Christmas Day underwear bomber, an Al Qaeda emissary from Nigeria, is arrested and given his Miranda warning -- after a bare 50 minutes of talk.

Already angry, the American public has reached its limit. Fearing no longer, they turn the tables on the monster. In the 1931 film, the angry villagers finally turned on Frankenstein, grabbing their torchlights and pitchforks in this memorable scene.

In the political world of 2010 America, angry voters have turned on Gorbamastein in several ways.

• In the health care debate, voters responded to a Gorbamastein appearance in Pennsylvania with a similarly passionate response not unlike the Frankenstein film, albeit minus the torchlights and pitchforks.

• In Massachusetts, they responded to the Gorbamastein appearance by electing Scott Brown.

• In Connecticut bad polls drove Gorbamastein (appearing as Senator Chris Dodd) from his race for re-election. In Rhode Island, no less than Gorbamastein Congressman Patrick Kennedy was chased out of his re-election race, as was North Dakota Gorbamastein Byron Dorgan sent fleeing from his. Perhaps seeing the torches coming, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh just gave up his re-election, despite what his staffers said was a 20-point lead in the polls. A lead, it should be said, that was at least 10% less than that of Martha Coakley as she began her epic match with the unknown Scott Brown in the infinitely bluer-than-Indiana Massachusetts.

• New Yorkers have forced the Gorbamastein terror trials out of their city -- making certain that the Gorbamastein monster that was willing to treat the 9/11 monster as just one more average American burglar was run out of the city altogether.

• Up and down the East Coast, the credibility of the Gorbamastein global warming policies demanding a massive growth of government control because, among other things, we weren't getting enough snow, was done in by repeated blizzards. Which caused the environmental Gorbamastein to float the argument that snowstorms are caused by global warming as well, giving the monster points for scientific elasticity if nothing else. Perhaps it's no coincidence that the credibility of the Gorbamastein mindset was being put to a picturesque test in a December snowstorm that blanketed Massachusetts just as Scott Brown's pickup truck began a four-wheel drive to victory. The same reminder was dumped on New Jersey and Virginia as they prepared to inaugurate governors elected in a rebuke to the monster. And a further reminder was delivered up and down the East Coast, including Pennsylvania, where Arlen Specter trails in the polls in his snowbound state, when he's not spending his time in a now very nervous and equally snowbound Washington, D.C.

• In the media, the all-Gorbamastein-all-the time cable network of MSNBC is getting thrashed by Fox News in the ratings, as Bill O'Reilly has gleefully pointed out, while CNN's Gorbmamastein sympathies have made its once glorious life as the king of cable-news miserable. Air America, the great left-wing hope in the world of talk radio, Frankenstein-like, was finally cornered by the free market crowd, the monster chased into oblivion.

Throughout all this, a picture of desperation is increasingly drawn by Democrats. Having enthusiastically participated in the creation of this monster, they can't seem to get away from public recognition of their responsibility in its creation quite fast enough. Out of control, the monster is wrecking what once appeared to be some of the most enduring political careers in Washington, from Dodd to Dorgan to Kennedy and now to Bayh.

That would appear to include the presidential career of one of the Gorbamastein monster's prime creators- Barack Obama himself. Rasmussen now reports only 24% -- 24%!! -- of the nation's voters strongly approve of Obama's presidential performance.

"Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!" shrieked a rapturous Dr. Frankenstein as he watched his beloved creature stir, coming to life after a jolt from a powerful bolt of electricity. It is a sentiment that seemed everywhere in Obama circles as The One and his assistants gazed at the monster they were about to jolt to life last January in a burst of euphoria.

Now, as the Gorbamastein monster they created runs amuck, destroying both their careers and credibility, rueful Democrats may wish to remember another line from Frankenstein, this one in a frantic warning to the good doctor:

"You have created a monster, and it will destroy you!"

Too late.

The torches are lit.

And the villagers are coming.


Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.