May I ask y’all something?   How close do you think this country is to being ripped apart at the seams?  Other bloggers and pundits of note have been writing recently about the the growing division in this country between the ruling class (the Politburo, the Progressives, the Liberals, or, as O’Reilly calls them, the Pinheads) and great, honest, God-loving, hard-working, average Americans (the Proletariart, Conservatives, or wingnuts, as the Liberal bloggers refer to us).   

 Take a look at these topics from the Current Events section of RasmussenReports.com:

54% Oppose Health Insurance Requirement in New Health Law

64% Support Offshore Oil Drilling, 55% Favor Deepwater Drilling

57% Say Health Care Plan Bad For the Country, 59% Favor Repeal

65% Say New Sources of Energy More Important Than Conservation

59% Support Arizona Law; 53% Trust States More than Feds To Enforce Immigration Law

Support for Mexican Border Fence Up to 68%

42% Say Government Would Have Done Worse Job Than BP Responding To Oil Leak

Among these important topics, do you see any of them that the current administration or their minions in Congress and the Judiciary would agree with the majority of Americans on?

Thewre is a major disconnect going on between those in power and average Americans.  The Obama administration has decided to govern from a “Progressive”, or Far Left point of view.  The disconnect is happening because, going into 2010, only 21 % of Americans identified themselves as Liberal.   That leaves an overwhelming majority of Americans that are not Elitist whackjobs, consisting of 36% of Americans being Moderates, and 40% of Americans proclaiming themselves to be Conservative.

I thought this guy that sneaked into the White House was supposed to be the Great Unifier, not the Great Divider.

Remember in April 2008 when Obama was making a campaign speech in San Francisco and he said:

You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

That was just a hint of things to come.

Vic Gold, writer and historian, has given some food for thought.   Obama, he said, has never sat in the Oval Office and looked into a camera and said, “My fellow Americans…” just as every president before him has, in the era of radio, film and television.

All of Obama’s pronouncements have been before a live audience or a press gaggle. Why? Because he needs the fawning adulation of his elite audiences. He lacks the self-confidence of men such as Truman, JFK and RWR, all of whom said “this government” or “your government.” Obama says, “my administration” and “my cabinet.” He is a product of the Facebook generation, the “Me” generation.  He is outstanding at self-promotion, not so hot at other things, like, say, being President.

The differences between Reagan and Obama become ever more pronounced when one understands that Obama speaks mainly to the elites of Washington, New York and academia. Obama, the ultimate snob, prefers the company of wealthy bankers and Washington’s movers and shakers.

He does not care about the public’s perception.  The Elite are his people.

Ronaldus Magnus, on the other hand, spoke “over the heads of Washington” speaking straight to the American people. He preferred the company of farmers to financiers.   He preferred the wise common sense of the citizenry to the wisenheimers of Washington.

The American people were his people.

This new aristocracy can be observed in the ruling by the gay Federal Judge in California on Wednesday, negating the wishes of 7,000,000 Californian.  He told those citizens that they were stupid and their wishes meant nothing at all.

On Thursday, before the vote in the Senate to confirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, failed comedian and freshman Senator Al Franken showed Conservatives in general, and Mitch McConnell in particular, just what he thinks of all of us.

When Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was explaining his opposition to Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination, Franken appeared to be moving around in his chair, gasping and rolling his eyes like a kid in Junior High School.

Moments before Kagan’s confirmation vote Thursday, the Minnesota Democrat was presiding over the Senate — and the Kentucky Republican believed that the freshman senator was mocking his speech. Upon the conclusion of his remarks, a torqued-off McConnell removed his microphone, approached the dais and confronted the Elitist little jerk.

“This isn’t ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Al,” McConnell told Franken sternly, according to people who overheard the exchange.

Franken later apologized to McConnell.

Franken said in a statement to politico.com, trying to weasel out of responsibility for his actions:

The leader thought I was disrespectful while he was giving his speech on General Kagan.  He is entitled to give his speech with the presiding officer just listening respectfully. I went directly to his office after I was done presiding to apologize in person. He wasn’t there, so I’ve sent him a handwritten note.

Yeah, I’m sure you did.  At the bottom of the note, it probably read:  Signed, Epstein’s Mother.  Up your nose with a rubber hose, Al.

While Obama and all his Elitist minions are laughing it up and ignoring the wishes of the American people, they are each, at least those up for re-election to Congress this year, hoping that their cushy government job will be the last one that the hungry tiger, known as the American public, will devour.

Sources:   politico.com, csmonitor.com, foxnews.com