Posted on 10/02/2013 8:08:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One thing often heard in media commentary on the shutdown: what must the Chinese think when the US can't even keep its government open? The correct answer: who cares? China's a communist state – its government never sleeps. America's a democracy – if it has an honest disagreement with itself then it debates it openly within the context of law and the Constitution. If things must shutdown for a bit, so be it.
The Founding Fathers divided the US government in order to keep it limited. No, they never thought things would break down quite this way, but then they never thought that elected officials would try to grow the government so large. Since the 1930s, a series of administrations has tried to expand the responsiblities of the federal government far beyond its original remit, usually bypassing the Constitution in order to avoid breaking with it altogether (covert action signed off by the executive, generously interpreting the Commerce Clause etc). Crucially, this was done by both parties with fairly equal contempt for the founding principles of their republic. Democrats gave us the Great Society, Republicans gave us Medicare part D, the Patriot Act and the Iraq War.
But in recent years things have gotten a lot worse. To understand the roots of the present crisis you have to understand how revolutionary the Democratic power grab of 2008-2010 was. Realising that their time in charge of all three parts of the government was short, the Dems tried to do as much as possible in those two years – which meant taking a leap towards refashioning America into a social democracy....
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Our media is controlled by people who want the rest of us to read, digest and UTTERLY believe in a very specific overseas story: that WE are pure, clean and not responsible for anything bad and those nasty foreigners, especially Asians and middle easterners, are to blame for everything bad that happens in the world and to us.
It is easier to see the scope of a fire at a distance.
Overseas media don’t see us the way we see ourselves. They show us our “warts” and show their own warts to the world.
“All the best reporting and analysis seems to come from overseas anymore. Why is that, do you think?”
Is that a trick question??
Sort of.
Bttt.
in the last 4.5 years, the US federal govt has spent $16 trillion
and they’re complaining because they want to keep running up the tab... while all the credit cards are maxed out and the bank accounts are empty... expecting a small handful of responsible people will cover it
screw them, freakin parasites
Nice to know Obama is using all of his most essential skills.
What the hell are you on about? First of all, the media has but one primary message: That Democrats can do no wrong, ever, no matter what. They spike the bad news about them, and MAKE UP STUFF to slam the Republicans, especially the conservative ones.
The secondary message is that every woe in the world IS America's fault -- from Globull Warming, to Wars of every nature, to international poverty, to terrorism, to imperialism. You name it, we caused it.
Apparently the UK Telegraph is the TEA Party newspaper of record.
A very well written article.
I’m not sure if I should laugh, or cry. So here’s a timid ROFL.
The Europeans know exactly what we stupid Americans are doing to ourselves with our version of socialized medicine. They’ve been there, done that, and they’re watching in amazement as we’re heading down the path to destruction with hardly a whimper from the vast majority of the American populace.
What are you smoking? Had to read it three times, still makes no sense
Has anyone caught the recurring journalistic fallacy in the first few lines of this article—that America is a “democracy”? The founding fathers detested the concept of democracy and wrote much about it. In this the UK press is in lockstep with the U.S. mainstream media which has adopted this self-serving mantra from the era of Wilsonian proselytizing and liberal Supreme Court decisionmaking quoted and repeated ad infinitum until it took on the cast of absolute fact in the marketplace of disinformation. Yes the foreign press can sometimes give us a better perspective on ourselves but I wouldn’t trust them to understand the difference between the political process in Haiti versus our representative form of government when America as a constitutional republic is functioning politically without deliberate distortion, which admittedly is a rarity these days.
The Brits understand our government better than American Socialists do.
That...is...GREAT!
>> All the best reporting and analysis seems to come from overseas anymore.
The “irresponsible and reckless” Dana Bash might not agree.
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