Posted on 01/23/2010 2:53:19 PM PST by Lorianne
How loud do the alarms have to get? There is an economic emergency in the country with millions upon millions of Americans riddled with fear and anxiety as they struggle with long-term joblessness, home foreclosures, personal bankruptcies and dwindling opportunities for themselves and their children.
While the nation was suffering through the worst economy since the Depression, the Democrats wasted a year squabbling like unruly toddlers over health insurance legislation. No one in his or her right mind could have believed that a workable, efficient, cost-effective system could come out of the monstrously ugly plan that finally emerged from the Senate after long months of shady alliances, disgraceful back-room deals, outlandish payoffs and abject capitulation to the insurance companies and giant pharmaceutical outfits.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The NYT?!?
WOW!
I think the more appropriate observation is that Americans still don’t get it.
They didn’t even really get started on the health care in earnest until late last year. Before that the administration’s #1 priority appeared to be painting Rush Limbaugh as the head of the Republican Party and trying to promote the idea that FOX News is just a propaganda arm of the Republican Party.
Now suddenly this week Obama cares about jobs and the economy?
Well, he ends up with a Brooking Institute Report (left wing think tank) that says the bad economy is all Bush’s fault.
But I get the feeling that he’s none too fond of Obamacare.
It’s worth a bit of Bob Herbert’s usual nonsense to read those lead paragraphs.
Summary: The Republicans are still evil. But the Democrats aren’t much better!
Not as good as it sounds from the title. If you read it all the way through, he thoroughly hates the GOP, he just is lamenting that the Dems aren't more focused on government-fostered jobs creation instead of health care. He wants his government spending NOW.
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That was a breath of fresh air from a liberal lackey.
Then he left this bad odor:
The Republican Party has abandoned any serious approach to the nation’s biggest problems, economic or otherwise. It may be resurgent, but it’s not a serious party. That leaves only the Democrats, a party that once championed working people and the poor, but has long since lost its way.
mere unemployment has one sort of fear and anxiety. the idea that the market is being disabled structurally by government, preventing it from creating jobs; the prospect of being hit with a new "health care" tax bill zealously collected by the bill collector from hell (the IRS), with the possibility of imprisonment if unable to pay it; the fact that the world's strongest and rightly proudest economy is being mismanaged into ruin by delusional totalitarian idealogues; the these sorts of things carry an entirely different magnituded of fear and anxiety.
And they tend to light fires under people's @sses, too.
Yeah, “this week’s special” is JOBS, JOBS, JOBS - like cantalopes at $1.68 at the Kroger. Put it out there to try to get the folks back into the store somehow. Dems are trying to figure out how to cancel “The Conan Obama Show” - and they’d better do it pretty damn quick.
But wait. Aren’t they the smart ones and we are the dumb ones...?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Wow this author - Bob Herbert - is incredibly stupid.
Essentially, he is saying the current Dumocrat regime hasn’t been socialist enough. He doesn’t give any specifics, but he’s kind of saying that the government should have simply nationalized the entire economy in one fell swoop, rather than waste a year trying to negiotiate the take-over of just a part of the health care industry.
No specifics on policy, and even fewer specifics on how to execute the policy.
Morons would be offended if I lumped him in with them!
Probably the worst op-ed piece I have ever read.
T. Boone Pickens has it right in his energy commercial. With a twist.
“Go Back To Sleep America” Scott Brown won
Tell him what you think: http://www.nytimes.com/gst/emailus.html
Bump to that!!!!
Another well worded hit piece. Saving the best for the last paragraph.
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