Warning: What Liberal Change Looks Like After One Year

American Thinker ^ | December 26, 2008 | Ben-Peter Terpstra

[neverdem]

"Candidate Jimmy Carter said he stood for change." - Associated Press, 11/3/1976

Goodness. What a difference a year makes. In fact, a year after Carter's inauguration night, even some Democrats were rolling their eyes. Come, now: Let's revisit history, shall we?

Before President Jimmy Carter's January1977 inauguration:

November 3, 1976: "What Will Carter Presidency Look Like?" An AP news analysis, by Louise Cook reminds literates that "Jimmy Carter said he stood for change. He left a long list of promises" like Whatshisname.

Consider.  "A streamlined bureaucracy"? Yes.  "A new tax system"? Yes. "A pared-down defense budget"? Yes. "Comprehensive national health and welfare reform"? Yes. Change, change, change. But -- okay, whatever -- here's the most interesting point: "In the campaign, Carter did not spell out specifics on most of his major programs, talking instead about general goals."

Revealingly, Georgia's AP writer affirms, "Carter billed himself as a candidate of the people, and outsider running against Washington insiders who are pawns of special interests, who've turned the government into a ‘horrible, bloated bureaucratic mess.'" Boy that sounds awfully familiar. Therefore, Carter was planning to (a) restore integrity; (b) restore openness; and (c) restore sensitivity "in the same soft-spoken, preacher tones he uses to teach his Baptist Sunday school class" supporters hope.  

Today's history lesson: Never trust a thin, effeminate, sandy-haired peanut farmer and his band of change-hungry volunteers. On the charitable side, though, Carter knew how to look after his own interests. Or number one. "In 1973 and 1974, Carter used his governorship to expand his contacts with politicians, businessmen and journalists."

Roughly a year after Carter's reign began:

January 11, 1978: Change is here. Robert De Fina's paper for the Center for the Study of American Business informs literates that the "cost of regulations to be more than $65 billion" in 1977 and that private "businesses must pay 18 billion to fill out government forms." Under Carter, a global cooling hysteric, "billions more are spent to pay for new equipment and employees to meet many other federal regulations."

In this economic context too, "the 65 billion regulatory bill is passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices" and this "cost averages $307 for every person." Americans feel their empty pockets, and they don't like the feeling.

Apart from penniless businesses, citizens are also discovering that the ungodly "expense of regulations is more than the federal government spends on health care each year" and that "it uses 73 percent of the amount spent for national defense."  Further, it is "more than one-third of the total amount spent by private industry for new plant and equipment."

And, in all seriousness, the world's largest pharmaceutical group openly admits before Congress that their company now "spends more time filling out government forms" for President Peanut "than it does performing research on cancer and heart disease."     

January 12, 1978:  As it turns out, Carter is peanuts. Wilfred Burchett, an Australian Communist, receives a waiver to gallivant around America's colleges and universities. "Integrity"? "Sensitivity"? One writer points out in The News Tribune that he is -- I quote -- the "professional communist propagandist who worked insidiously on our prisoners of war in Korea and later in Vietnam" and that he has "been identified under oath before the Soviet KGB" for some unfathomable reason. Oh, yes and "his record is despicable" What's more, "The New York Post has published a devasting exposure of his record."

Summarily, then, Carter made headlines for (a) attending a whites-only church and (b) allowing white KGB-approved preachers to freely preach. In the meantime, Moscow is happily "airlifting weapons and supplies to Ethiopia" and "filing false flight plans when stopping to refuel in countries," according to an aerial subterfuge report.

Since, Carter's inaugnaration the jubilant communists have really taken to "flying over countries that lie between the Soviet Union and Ethiopia" for some reason beginning with "C."  

On this day too, William Buckley is challenging President Carter's belief that -- I quote -- "Our concept of human rights is preserved in [Red] Poland." The erudite founder of National Review responds:

What is preserved in Poland is not our concept of human rights. What is preserved is 1) Soviet colonialism; 2) the supremacy of the state; 3) the abolition of property; 4) the abolition of intellectual and political freedom; and 5) the perpetual insecurity of any human rights - save only the right to practice one's religion, which the Soviet Union found it could no more control than it could, domestically, the consumption of vodka.

But the real news of the day is Cambodia. Millions of lives are sitting in the balance. Well? In John D. Lofton's "Eye on Washington" report he asks the adult questions:

But why in the world should the United States be so passive when what is being talked about here is one of the most brutal, systematic, widespread slaughters of human beings in the history of the world?

Why has the Carter administration, and its U.N. ambassador, Andrew Young, stood silently by waiting for some other nation to request that the United States investigate the mass murders in Cambodia?

But that's how change looks like after one year. Change, in a liberal nutshell, is peanuts.  

[wastedyears]

[Cyber Ninja]

[Old Sarge]

The majority voted for this. The majority is Leftist. They WANT these policies.

[Sarah Barracuda]

The majority voted for this. The majority is Leftist. They WANT these policies.

And unfortunately the rest of us that had enough sense to know what would happen have to suffer through it. Obama is gonna make Carter look like a decent guy when its all said and done

[sionnsar]

The majority voted for this. The majority is Leftist. They WANT these policies.

The majority they've fulfilled their duty when they cast their vote -- and have executed no more due diligence than that. They bought "a pig in a poke," thinking they were getting real meat.

[sionnsar]

Obama is gonna make Carter look like a decent guy when its all said and done

Not to me. Pol Pot and Stalin didn't exactly make Hitler, or Mugabe for that matter, look like a decent guy.

[sionnsar]

Arrgh: "majority think they've"

[SolidWood]

"Candidate Jimmy Carter said he stood for change." - Associated Press, 11/3/1976

The world got the change alright.

[wac3rd]

If Sarah Palin hadn’t been chosen, it would have been 60-40 Hussein Soetero.

The reality is that America has been dumbed down to not question authority; not understand history and be dependent on government, not themselves.

ObamaZero won, but the electorate literally had 24/7 propaganda from the fawning news media who will be part of the ruling elite once Communism is ushered in.

The Media completely gave us a glimpse into what a controlled America could be by the Left; literally, covering up, not reporting or spinning news to protect real issues of Obama and other assorted Democrats.

Government in place for the sake of creating jobs that do not produce wealth; millions of legal and illegals on public assistance; an enormous hoax called Global Warming (see Global Cooling, Climate Change) that is the “moral instrument” to reduce our quality of life.

The goal is control of everything you do, including the way you eat, drink, work, go to school, drive, study and have an any business. Pride is to be crushed in self-improvement and a risk/reward situation by making the backstop of government be the shadow in every situation.

Freedom is not allowing stealth Commmunism to infect every part of society...labor unions are a huge part of the problem, pensions, etc.

In the end, the US Government and your state will want 70-80% of your income to continue to build the government bureaucracy that eliminates personal decisions and ambition.

I have faith in Americans, I just cannot stand Liberals, they are the problem, 100% of it.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The “majority” didn’t even know which party controlled Congress. Issues weren’t even an issue. If we had had a real candidate to oppose the False Messiah who could actually enunciate a coherent position and contrast themself, it might’ve turned out differently.

[unkus]

It’s all so damned disgusting.

[Old Sarge]

And this is the very life The SHeep want.

I no longer have faith the The Sheep. They have broken faith with their veterans past and present, and will sell us out in the eight years to come.

[freespirited]

If the majority had read his Dreams book, he would have lost to McCain in a landslide. But the majority was lazy and the ratmedia did everything possible to cover for its annointed candidate. No way were we going to prevail.

[pallis]

“...the abolition of intellectual and political freedom...” When a society gets ignorant enough to join the Obama cult, intellectual and political freedom are whatever the Communists want you to have. The Fairness Act will see to that. Our only hope is that the Communists in Washington will hurt people bad enough to knock some sense into their empty little heads. Education of the masses should be the primary goal of conservatives, when they take back the Republican Party. We got lucky with Carter, in that he screwed up everything so fast, people refused to suffer through more of his idiocy. We also got lucky with Reagan. I don’t want to wait until Obama’s second term to see what kind of a commie weasel he really is. I want him to screw up big time, first time around, and then, I hope we get lucky with Sarah.

[interqeu]

I know what its gonna look like in 4-8 years.

There gonna do something to make themselves a permanent majority in power.

Sell all our top secret military stuff legally to China.

Do anything thats outrageous and doesn’t cause a backlash.... which I hope it does.

[bicyclerepair]

Peggy Joseph is happy now that she won’t have to worry about filling her tank of paying her mortgage. Where can I get a deal like that?

[kickonly88]

‘The “majority” didn’t even know which party controlled Congress. Issues weren’t even an issue. If we had had a real candidate to oppose the False Messiah who could actually enunciate a coherent position and contrast themself, it might’ve turned out differently.’

Absolutely!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good find.

By the way, latest news is that the Zero is turning to “exercise” because the rest of the problems are so unfullfilling and frustrating.

[freespirited]

Stay tuned. If the deals are anything like those under Jimmy Carter, you’ll soon be eligible for a 13% mortgage.