When I read Barbra Streisand’s September 14th op-ed in the Huffington Post, I was moved to pity for her former fans and embarrassment for James Brolin. This is because Streisand’s article is chock full of exaggerations, innuendo, and outright lies. It also has its fair share convenient omissions, as when Streisand blames Republicans for “[turning] a $236 billion budget surplus left by President Clinton into a $1.2 trillion deficit left by President Bush.” (Granting her numbers for the sake of argument, she doesn’t have the common decency to then point out that the $1.2 trillion of debt which Bush accumulated over eight years has been turned into over $13 trillion by Obama in less than two years!)
The goal of Streisand’s piece is to try to stall the momentum of the pending Republican takeover in November. Therefore it is overrun with excuses for why Obama has yet to bring us all some hope and change, and the main reason given is because those rascally ole Republicans “have been committed to blocking progress at all costs in order to insure the failure of this President.”
Does Streisand not understand that the Democrats have a commanding majority in the House and a near filibuster-proof majority in the Senate? In other words, Obama doesn’t need Republican support to pass his agenda; he just needs all the Democrats to support him. The problem, which has apparently eluded Streisand, is that Democrats have realized that if they vote for Obama’s style of hope they’ll have to change jobs in November: no wonder everything is at a standstill.
What’s happened here is that Streisand has finally realized that voters across the country have awakened and are holding political careers hostage, thus the title of her op-ed: “Stop. Think. Breathe.” She is trying to assuage public anger by promising that Obama can be “successful is if he has a Congress that dreams with him and an American electorate that gives him the chance!” But what she fails to realize is that there are people participating in the Tea Parties who not only gave Obama a chance, they actually voted for him and have since seen the error of their ways.
If I could say anything to Streisand, it would be: “Don’t get your hopes up Babs, no one is listening to you.”
If I could say anything to Streisand’s family and her former fans, it would be: “Don’t feel like you have to don the brown paper bags just yet, the public long ago ascertained that Babs is ‘out there.'”
For example, we all remember that the last time Streisand took a big shot at affecting public opinion was when she told commoners: “Turn up your [air conditioning] thermostat to 78 degrees when you’re home, and 85 degrees when you’re out.” Then the commoners read the newspaper and realized that Streisand keeps her apartment in New York City at 42 degrees whether she’s there or not (in order to protect her furs). She also told commoners how to conserve water, and then it was revealed that her annual water bill, for watering her lawn, was $22,000.
That’s almost as bad as Al Gore’s annual electricity bill of nearly $30,000, and clearly as hypocritical.
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