Doubly Standard Procedure Watch: Conspiracy Thoughts

If I were conspiracy minded, I might think this was all part of The Plan.

Here's an example. I've long thought that one reason for the yo-yo on gas prices is about conditioning the consumer. That is, prices periodically spike to about twice what we have come to expect. There's concern and the usual outrage from the do-nothings in Congress, and the price eventually settles down to our great relief. But the price never settles back down to what it was before. It settles to a new "low," which, strangely, is always higher than our previous normal. But, since it's not the shocking high of last summer, we think "This is all right." We have be come accustomed to the new normal.

(And remember, next time you see the gas prices creeping up, and you reflect that your money is going to our "friends" the Saudis, ponder this: the Democrats are against domestic drilling. They like Americans to be hostages, if not to the Dems and their government largesse, then to somebody. A hostage is usually happy for whatever crumbs the captors give them.)

Back to The Plan.

There is so much DSP that it's hard to keep up to date. That leads me to wonder if possibly that is The Plan: flood us with so much DSP that we become numb to it after a while, and then our Dear Leader and His Devoted Servants can do whatever they want.

A few examples of the current Doubly Standard Procedure.

President Obama hits his head on the door of a Marine Helicopter.

Waiting for the SNL skit of how stupid he is for doing that. The Jon Stewart show? Anyone to make fun of him?

Uh, huh. That’ll happen.

During the campaign, now Vice-President Joe Biden suggested paying higher taxes is more patriotic, especially for wealthier Americans.

"We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people…”

Unless, of course, you are a powerful Democratic member of Congress, like former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.

“The disclosure -- involving unreported income and the use of a car and driver provided to Daschle -- comes 2 1/2 weeks after Obama's choice to head the Treasury Department, Timothy Geithner, admitted that he had not paid about $43,000 in taxes.”

Daschle owed about $140,000 dollars in back taxes. Oh, wait, there’s the new Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, mentioned in passing above. And Charles Rangel, too. These weeds have no problem wanting to take our money, and wanting to tax us over and over...yet they have a real problem with paying their own taxes.

I guess they’ve discovered patriotism about the same time the public discovered their tax problems.

And, just for fun, imagine the mad dog Media pursuit of scalps that would have ensued if a Bush nominee hadn’t paid their taxes until they were being considered for a high government post.

Yet…it’s rather quiet on that front.

Other DSP that I don't have time to go into: Obama was about Hope and Change, and yet, he's peddling fear. "Pass the political Payback...er, Stimulus Package now, or the crows will peck the flesh from your cold dead bodies!" That's hopeful.

Doubly Standard Procedure: It's the New True!