The Password Is..."Certainty"

I used to be a game show fiend, back in the early 70s and not long out of diapers.    Concentration, Split-Second, Jeopardy (with Art Fleming), the Pyramid incarnations, The Price is Right ("Barker's Beauties" and all), and Password were among the many offerings in which I indulged my developing brain.   Over the last several days, in fact months, I've been reminded of Alan Ludden's show as one particular word keeps getting repeated over the commercial airwaves and cable bandwidth on the news shows, whenever a Repub or a business suit is on the air - imagine the whispering voice:

"The Password Is...Certainty".

I most recently heard this word from the frontal orifice of John McCain (R-Sellout), on one of the Sunday bobble-head bonanzas.   He was repeating the mantra that businesses are looking for certainty from the government, especially as it related to regulations.    

Here, I imagine Mr. Ludden having the celebrities switch sides on the TV set (which was the custom on the show), and introducing a new password...(here comes the whisper):


"The Password Is...Code"

Certainty is nothing more than a code word.   By that, I mean that the US Chamber of Commerce, the Brothers Koch, and the rest of the zillionaires who are planning on spending $400 million plus on this mid-term election, are sensing that within at least the last two years, the Congress they have worked so hard to purchase is starting to get away from them.  This present Congressional makeup is there in part because of the promises to actually enforce business regulations, and within the last two years, it seems as if they were starting to make good on that promise.    At the very least, that was the noise coming from the House and Senate. 

And the zillionaire class can't have THAT now, can they? 

So certainty really means that the zillionaire class wants to be certain that they will have a compliant Congress to do its bidding, and they are certain that they will get that with a Congress dominated by the Republicans, as well as a few Blanche Lincoln-type "Democrats".    This is why the vast majority of the campaign largess is shifting toward the Republicans, even though many of these Repubs are two twinkies short of certifiable.   As long as the Tea Party types eat from the iron hand that feeds them and don't dare bite it, they can be just as whacked as they (and their constituents) want to be.    So Certainty is code for another word, as well: Control. Control over the process, control over the those elected, and ultimately, control over how we perceive them and their actions.   

And this is just the beginning.    I'm sure that 2012 will dwarf this year in terms of corporate campaign spending, especially if a former CEO, Mitt Romney, heads a ticket with Sarah Palin riding shotgun as the bomb-throwing VP candidate - a natural role for Her Wasilliness.    One billion dollars to one party for a presidential campaign?   Hell, if you're the head of ExxonMobil and can make one billion dollars in profit in a week, that's money well spent.   

So it's the end of the show - and for good measure, Mr. Ludden provides us with one more password to guess - actually, a phrase (cue the whispered voice):

"The Password is...hopelessly corrupt."