Alinsky Is Winning � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

Alinsky Is Winning � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL): "Alinsky Is Winning


By handing Obama a crisis on a silver platter, with the conservatives now in the position of being the ones who caused it, the 25 hold-outs against the Boehner plan are playing right into Obama’s Alinskyite playbook. Read Rules for Radicals and you see that this is exactly what Obama wants. In fact, it might be too late to reverse the damage. Obama may have already won.

What the 25 have done is akin to a football team in the playoffs holding a five-point lead, trying to run out the clock, and getting to third and goal at the opponents’ one-yard-line with ten seconds left and with the opponents having used their last time-out. Sense says to fall on the ball. Instead, what the 25 have done is like the team trying for another touchdown, fumbling, and having the opponent pick up the loose ball with a clear field ahead of them. Think Joe Pisarcik and Herm Edwards — only worse.

Who will get the blame"