Why I Left Liberalism #16 - They Reward Failure: Obama's Genius Economists

Vocal Minority ^ | 6/8/11 | EricTheRed

[EricTheRed_VocalMinority]

El Rushbo has mentioned this many times in the past, and today it is worth repeating: The Democrat Party rewards failure.

For instance, when Howard “Yaarrrrrgggghhhh!” Dean lost the 2004 presidential candidacy to John Kerry, he was rewarded by being made the DNC chair, at which post he boosted the integrity of his party by accusing the Republicans of being racists, sexists, homophobes, xenophobes, etc., etc., who want women back in the kitchen and blacks in the back of the bus. (This illustrious tradition, incidentally, is now continued by the new DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, but that’s another story for another blog post.)

Another example is when Hillary lost the nomination to President Hope&Change in 2008. For this she was rewarded by being appointed to Secretary of State, a position she shows to be grossly unqualified for on a frequent basis.

These are just party-internal failures. But what happens when the failures of Democrats translate to big problems for the American people at large?

Arguably the most egregious example of this is Al Gore. Soon after the man who “used to be the next president of the United States” lost the presidential race in 2000 to W., he began embarking on his man-made global warming climate change campaign full force. Within just a few years, Gore had become a celebrated “ambassador for the planet” to the Democrat-media(-Hollywood-academia) complex. For this role Gore is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars and currently sits in a humongous Tennessee mansion with multiple plasma screen TV’s, SUV’s private jets, and an Oscar award for a movie deceptively billed a documentary.

And what do we, the American people, get? We’re being threatened by draconian, oppressive environ-mental-ist regulations. We have toilets that need to be flushed three times because there’s not enough water in them anymore. A gaggle of unaccountable lawyers in black robes known as the Supreme Court has declared CO₂—a gas exhaled from every breathing creature and needed by plant life to survive—a freaking pollutant. In just a few short months the incandescent lightbulb will be banned. The oil and coal industry, which fuels our entire economy and ensures our comfortable modern lifestyle, is under governmental attack. Our children from grade school through college are being indoctrinated to “go green” and to demonize anyone who refuses to hop on the environ-mental-ist bandwagon.

Another salient example of the liberal/Democrat being rewarded for failure and concomitantly having disaster upon our nation: The many members of President Hope&Change’s economic advisory team. All these people who have gone in and out of this position like it’s a revolving door from academia to Obama’s Washington and then back to academia again. These people are, we are told, the best and the brightest. They hail from, we are also told, the most prestigious universities in the nation, for which parents pay tens of thousands of dollars to send their children to be educated by them.

But look at the economy right now. Has it improved one whit since Obama took office in January, 2009? No, just the opposite. Has the employement rate improved since then? No, just the opposite. Has federal spending been reined in? No, just the opposite. Have the debt and the deficit been reduced? No, just the opposite. Has the nearly trillion dollar “stimulus” package worked? No, just the opposite?

Yet the architects of every failed scheme and policy imposed by Obama at the advice of this crack squad of economic geniuses are still considered geniuses. They are still revered as experts despite the utter destruction they have wrought on this nation and its economy. And every one who has left the Obama administration is welcomed back with open arms by the prestigious universities they had left. To do what? To teach Marxist-socialist crap to unwitting college students. And get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year plus cushy benefits to do it.

Isn’t being a liberal/Democrat great? Get paid craploads of money to teach young people wrong things.

This week Obama’s current economic advisory chair, Austan Goolsbee, announced his resignation. This utter failure came from the University of Chicago School of Business where Michelle Malkin reports “He also pulled in a University of Chicago salary of $465,000 and additional wages and honoraria worth $93,000 …” This is in addition to “assets valued at between $1,146,000 and $2,715,000.” So, at least Goolsbee is good about making money for himself, just not for everyone else. So much for the liberal/Democrat claim to care about the little guy, spread the wealth around, pay your fair share, blah blah blah. The disgustingly rich Goolsbee joined Obama’s advisory committee when the employment rate was at 6%. He’s leaving when it’s at 9.5%, to return to a job that will pay him nearly a half a million dollars.

Isn’t being a liberal/Democrat great?

Here’s El Rushbo yesterday announcing the exit of Goolsbee:

So a failed economic advisor quits so he can return to academe and teach young skulls full of mush how to destroy jobs and run up the deficit. And we wonder why the country's in trouble. Failed liberals in government go back to their overpriced universities to teach liberalism to young skulls full of mush who don't know squat about the real world. These failed intellectual idiots are running what's called higher learning. … Goolsbee is fleeing his abject failure and is being welcomed with open arms back into the American academy. What is the old saying, those who can, do, and those who can't, teach.

Indeed. (Not to say all teachers aren’t capable of being doers. It just seems there are too many of them in our hallowed university classrooms, and definitely too many who are invited to join failed Democrat presidents’ failed administrations.)

But in the aforementioned Malkin piece demonstrates, Goolsbee is merely the last in a long list of intellectual morons who had a high-paid cushy university job before coming to Washington, who certainly had a well-paying job while totally screwing up things in Washington, and then return to that same high-paid cushy university job after fleeing Washington. There’s Christina Romer (UC Berkeley), allan Kreuger (Princeton), and Larry Summers (who would have still been president of Harvard had he not violated a sacrament of feminazi political correctness). Other geniuses who didn’t come from / return to academia but nevertheless are still sitting pretty in well-paid positions of various sorts: Peter Orszag and (Biden advisor) Jared Bernstein.

Isn’t being a liberal/Democrat great?

Why do Goolsbee, Romer, Summers, Orszag, and Bernstein If ours is truly a nation where success is rewarded, and not failure—and these days it is definitely not—then Goolsbee, Romer, Summers, Orszag, and Bernstein should be hanging their heads in disgrace and unemployed. Why do these people even still have jobs, let alone prestigious and high paying ones? Why would anyone who runs a university even want these people within 100 yards of a single student???

Why does Al Gore even have two dimes to rub together? Why are the names Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton not simply relegated to the ash heaps of American history?

Because liberals/Democrats take care of their own. It’s not how well you do; it’s what you believe, and it’s how much you do to further the agenda of the Left. Success be damned. And the American people be damned.

[MeganC]

I guess when you’re a liberal nothing succeeds like failure.