The Wall Street Protests are the Left's Hail Mary Pass

*** UPDATE - Cross posted at Flopping Aces! ***
Yep, the lefties are at it again. Seething with impotent rage over their inability to capture the spirit of the Tea Party they are making yet another attempt at imitation. I've documented previously how Leftists' responses to the Tea Party have resembled the Five Stages of Death and Dying. The coffee party fizzled, the "No Labels" movement was anything but, and jumping up and down and screaming "Racist terrorist tea bagging downgrade!" until they were red in the face hasn't changed the dynamic. Now almost three years into their savior's presidency they have taken to the streets protesting not the man whose policies have left them more likely to be unemployed and with more debt to pay, not the man who lied about his promises for an immediate and unconditional surrender in Iraq, to close Guantanamo, transparency, and end to lobbyists running Washington. Instead they are out protesting.... businesses. Yes, their anger is focused at the entities that provided their clothing, transportation to Wall Street, the iPhones needed to tweet heir self-righteous indignation, the pizzas that do-gooders are sending over, not to mention actual jobs that some of them are willing to work. The whole affair looks like The Left in America is so desperate that they are throwing up the proverbial "Hail Mary" pass.

For those of you who are non-football fans the Hail Mary is primarily a last ditch effort play used by a football team that is losing at the end of a game. If a team is losing by one score or less and is too far away from the opposing team's end zone to run a carefully planned and executed play it will make a desperation pass. So from halfway down the field the team will send several players into one section of the end zone and throw a ball in their general direction in hopes of it being caught for the winning score. Naturally, the defenders are aware of this and will send several of their players as well to stop this pass from being caught. Given the predictability of the play and the fact that there will be more defenders than offensive players this play rarely works. In fact, its low probability of success has gotten it unofficially nicknamed after the prayer since the quarterback is throwing the ball up for grabs and needs a prayer if he is to have any hope of the play succeeding.

That's what the Wall Street protests seem to resemble. The left worked so hard to get into power and now faces the harsh reality that their policies don't work in the real world. The biggest liberal they could hope to elect has not delivered on all of the unrealistic dreams that were promised to be fulfilled. Right now would be a good time for the left to take some time for introspection. Among a number of places where their introspection could be directed:

• Why simply apologizing to the rest of the world for The United States' existence has not transformed the world into a happy place


• Green jobs are a myth


• On that note, reasons why more people are turning their backs on the cult of Climate Change might be because those pesky things like scientific methodology and math don't support it


• Passing laws designed to restrict health care insurance choices and drive up premiums might actually result in fewer choices and higher premiums


• The reason that Keynesian economics didn't work for FDR, didn't work for Japan in the 90's and aren't working today might be that.... they don't work


• And to follow up on the last point, maybe ever increasing regulation, bureaucracy and threat of higher taxes actually hurt economic growth


• Take a serious look at the demands being drawn up and look at why none of them would work if attempted out in the real world


• And maybe, just maybe, placing all of your hopes and dreams into a leftist with neither any meaningful leadership experience nor any aptitude for leading and putting him into the most important leadership role in the world might not be a good idea.

But that would mean taking time for hard introspection and self-reflection, a skill set that leftists sorely lack. Since none of their ideas or philosophies can be at fault for their failure, they are forced to create these bogeymen known as the "wealthy" or businesses". And just like all of the other efforts to ignore, ridicule, rationalize, disrespect, curse, and imitate the Tea Party, the whole thing just comes off as pathetic. Instead of reflecting on the error of their ways, the left has to instead launch an angry tantrum in hopes of waking up its base of predominantly white hangers on. They are genuinely scared that the party for them may be coming to an end with the 2012 elections so they are taking their ball and throwing it up for grabs. And since it would be unconstitutional for them to pray on the public bridges that they occupy it looks like they haven't, if you'll pardon the pun, got a prayer.

While proofreading this post, I see that I got one point dead wrong. I stated that leftists are incapable of self-reflection, which clearly does not apply to all liberals. Some of them are capable of self-examination and thinking through the realities of their beliefs. And there is a technical term for them - Former Liberals, or more commonly, Conservatives.