Posted on 01/12/2009 9:23:42 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
For many liberals, that Obamagasmic "tingle going up their legs" from the campaign season -- to paraphrase MSNBC's Chris Matthews -- may have crept upward into stomach-churning queasiness as Inauguration Day nears. Consider this counterfactual: If John McCain had won the 2008 presidential election (just a scant half million votes needed to swing the other way in Colorado, Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia ... I know, I know), it's easy to imagine him picking Bono-approved, "new age" evangelist Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation, leaving Robert Gates as defense secretary and proposing an economic stimulus package that included $300 billion in tax breaks for individuals and businesses.
Yet that's just the sort of "big change" Barack Obama has provided in the two months since winning a near-landslide victory over the man Democrats derided as "McBush." (Let's see will.i.am make a YouTube video about this right-turn of events.) Even worse for the Left, Obama advisers are now signaling, says the New York Times, "that they may put off renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, overhauling immigration laws, restricting carbon emissions, raising taxes on the wealthy and allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military." You know, like, pretty much the very heart and soul of the liberal policy agenda.
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True...or he could be a “black bush”
That at this point would be impossible.
- Republican Congress from 1995 - 2006: $1.6 trillion budget deficit.
- Democratic Congress from 2007 - 2009: over $1.7 trillion budget deficit.
Looks to me like the Republicans are being made to look very frugal by the Democrats.
” - Republican Congress from 1995 - 2006: $1.6 trillion budget deficit.
- Democratic Congress from 2007 - 2009: over $1.7 trillion budget deficit. “
So 11 years of GOP deficits equate to just 3 years of Democrat deficits... and of course this year alone could hit $1.8 trillion - the largest ever single-year deficit.
Interesting factoid.
I believe the qualms about Obama not being liberal enough is huge huge media misdirection, to downplay how far-left they already are. In effect, they make Obama’s liberalism look reasonable by pointing out the extreme things he might actually put off for a year or so ... while the 4 horseman of the liberal apocalypse march on:
- more tax-and-spend-and-borrow big Government spending boondoggles
- environmentalist extremism (see Carol Browner etc)
- left-liberal judges on the courts
- signing away our soveriegnty to UN and other int’l groups
plus, of course the fact that the left is massively re-funded by every Democrat bill, with pork and pay-to-play and union rules, etc.
Here’s another interesting factoid:
From 1968 to 2008, the only Congress to run a budget surplus was a Republican Congress from 1998 - 2001 (surplus). That was the “Contract with America” that pulled that off. All Democratic controlled Congresses from 1966 to the present have run budget deficits.
The reason I only go back to 1968 is because that is how far back the data goes to the particular statements I found on a Congressional website.
New Springsteen song: Pennsylavania Avenue Freakout?
More like a leadership bug out than a freakout.
Let I keep saying I think the lieverals will be more dissappointed then we will be with his presidency. We already know he is Carter2 and will destroy just as much as Carter did in 4 years, lierals seem to ahve a short memory and forget how bad it was. Guess they needed reminded again?
That should be: Like I keep saying....liberals
The Republican Congress of the 1944-1952 time period was also effective in taking us out of New Deal depression policies and into successful post WWII policies.
That’s good to know. I hadn’t looked back that far. So it seems we do pretty well with a Republican Congress.
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