It takes a tribe

Photoshop montage of Hillary as Ilsa - She Wolf of the SS (first published here as "Hillary's Pink Offensive"), a bridge across Bill Whittle's pink/grey divide, the talk of the blogosphere and a must-read final solution to what's wrong with the Democrats.

"Hillary calls for 9/11-type 'Katrina Commission,'" headlines Matt Drudge re the junior New York senator's latest finger-in-the-wind positioning for her 2008 presidential run:

With many [How many, and do you have names, numbers and political affiliations? --ed] blaming the growing scope of Katrina's devastation on the Bush administration, Sen. Hillary Clinton called yesterday for a 9/11-style probe into how the federal government responded to the crisis.

"It has become increasingly evident that our nation was not prepared," Clinton (D-N.Y.) said in a letter to Bush asking him to set up a "Katrina Commission."

Cut to the Talk of the CyberTown, Bill Whittle's* "Tribes."  Forget about blue states vs. red states, writes the estimable proprietor of Eject! Eject! Eject! It's pink vs. grey in a dog-eat-dog world -- actually a wolf-eat-sheep world -- out there, and it's up to the sheepdogs, the heroic warrior class, to protect the flock from the forces of evil. But the liberals are in denial:

To say we are responsible for the terrorists in the world is a way to say we can control this wolf. If we believe we made him, then that means we control him. We can unmake him. Such a worldview appeals to the left because it gives them Godlike Mental Powers. All we have to do is act differently and he will go away.

But that’s not what the wolf says. The wolf is not interested in what we do. He does not spare little lambs because they rub up against his leg and make cooing sounds. The wolf wants to swallow us whole. He wants the fight.

Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice and George W. Bush are greys.  Bill Clinton, Al Sharpton and Ted Kennedy are pinks:

The Pink Tribe is all about feeling good: feeling good about yourself! Sexually, emotionally, artistically -- nothing is off limits, nothing is forbidden, convention is fossilized insanity and everybody gets to do their own thing without regard to consequences, reality or natural law . . . Then, in the other corner, there is the Grey Tribe -- the grey of reinforced concrete. This is a Tribe where emotion is repressed because Emotion Clouds Judgment.

Bill's thesis made us wonder. How do you bridge the pink/grey divide? Could the conservative's worst nightmare be the answer? Is Hillary the one?

Note: Thanks to Kevin Baker for correction of Whittle's last name.

Comments

[Sunidesus]

Thanks for linking that. Incredible reading.

[Kevin Baker]

Whittle. It's Bill Whittle, note Hobbs.

[Teresa]

Oh you knew there were going to be hearings... right? It was inevitable! And all it will accomplish is to get Senator Hillary into the spotlight. As with the 9/11 commission - NOTHING will happen.

It's all just finger pointing to see who will pick up the most mud in the onslaught.

[Rick Ballard]

Teresa,

Root for House hearings. The House can actually turn out a usable product. Hyde's committee is the place for a nice quick set of hearings. Then we can proceed to trials for Blanco and Nagin.