The Reality

The Senate seat occupied by the Democratic Kennedy brothers since 1952 has fallen to the Republican Party.

When you accept that 2009 was a wormhole of 1977, it all makes sense. Rahm Emanuel is Hamilton Jordon and Barack Obama is Jimmy Carter.

This is Barack Obama’s greatest failure. So far.

Massachusetts voters have given up on President Obama as an agent for anything but the status quo, and this is most evident in his willingness to dole out trillions of dollars in direct and indirect support to the banks. The Massachusetts polls show this issue to be foremost on the minds of the voters.

If 2009 was 1977, and Avatar is the new Star Wars, and Obama is the new Carter, so now that it’s 2010 and we’re in bizarro 1978, what else should we expect from this year?

Based on 1978’s returns, I’ve a hunch Dems will lose three Senate seats.

Based on 1978’s Bakke case, SCOTUS will strike down Campaign Finance with similarly twisted logic: because free and fair elections should be allowed to get purchased fairly with the free spending of corporate dollars.

I have a hunch that based on California’s Prop 13, that the Golden State will do another incredibly stupid thing. A cop-out? Yeah, but seriously, with a Austrian action hero for a Governor and a completely failed constitution, picking what idiotic thing they’ll do next is nearly impossible.

Harvey Milk was assassinated in 1978 – gulp. Conservatives still like to kill liberals.

Also, for good measure, Pope Ratzinger’s name is on the list.

Buckle up. It gets worse.