Posted on 02/19/2009 6:18:01 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
After barely four weeks in office, President Barack Obama signs into law Tuesday a legislative achievement that eclipses entire terms of some contemporary presidents. The stimulus legislation has the real potential of creating more than 3 million jobs, most in the private sector and many rebuilding an aging public infrastructure. The new law assists those most in need of basic health care, job training, and in the near term, unemployment benefits and food.
No one could blame Obama for being a bit chagrined at the GOP's disengagement from all this, notwithstanding the president's charm and offers of substantive compromise. Republican Judd Gregg's withdrawal as the nominee for the Commerce post was thus true to form. The only reason Gregg gave for withdrawing was that he didn't want to help. "It just occurred to me that it would be very difficult . . . to serve this Cabinet, or any Cabinet, for that matter, and be part of the team . . ." Confessing that one won't or doesn't know how to play with others is not an adult reaction to the urgent needs of the time. Has the GOP been reduced to the sum of its worst parts: namely, a political party with scarcely an original thought that now only remembers how to secure office largely by denigrating the values, hopes and planning of others?
The Republicans need to break free of an economic theory that was drafted on economist Arthur B. Laffer's napkin. Supply-side theory may have sufficed at a different time, but giving the wealthy more reasons not to notice that 90 percent of the wealth is held by 1 percent of the nation takes no account of the present economic reality.
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Doug Kmiec is nothing more than a useful idiot. Why did you even bother to post this tripe?
It was.
He needs an MRI, at least.
Most likely, the “journalist” ran this story by David Axelrod before submitting it to his editor. Either that or the editor did it for him.
One thing to consider with the MSM, they already are on the same page as David Axelrod and BHO.
Hard times ahead for the U.S.A. - we may not be able to get ourselves out of this hole because in the past most Americans loved the U.S. of A. and a large portion of immigrants foster a great amount of animosity toward the country they now live in.
We also have more mealy-mouths today so digging our way out of trouble in the future could be very tough going.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=Death%20of%20the%20GOP
both from the 17th
Laffer has been one of Bill Clinton’s biggest economic admirers
I guess the servant of Satan Kmiec didn’t do enough pre-election to guarantee a job with the anti-Christ Obama’s regime, and so must write hack articles, post-election, to garner some crumb.
Liberals always begin with the assumption that people who possess wealth somehow do not deserve it or obtained it solely through inheritance or shady dealings. Perhaps, being so enamored of the Kennedys, left-wingers might be forgiven for thinking that all rich people obtained their wealth the same way that their heroes did; which is to say, through the Patriarch's liquor-smuggling, political patronage, and ties to the Mob.
Nonetheless, the truth is that when the value of individual homes, businesses, and retirement accounts are included, wealth is more evenly distributed today than ever before, the result not of socialist tax-and-spend schemes, but of upward mobility generated by capitalism. And yet, capitalism is under assault today to an extent not seen since the early 20th Century, the proximate result of which was Woodrow Wilson's vast expansion of Federal government power. Then followed our needless involvement in a European war, easy money, artificially low interest rates, excessive speculation, and finally the Great Depression. Welcome back to the future.
Kmeic was a chair of the Mitt Romney campaign last year. He seems to have a hatred of Republicans for not nominating Romney and has now become a rabid Obamist. He urges Romney to join the Obama administration.
It will be interesting to see Romney’s response, or lack thereof.
Amazing how his writing style mimics that of Pravda during the “glory” years of the Soviet Union, isn’t it...
signs into law Tuesday a legislative achievement that eclipses entire terms of some contemporary presidents
I think you meant Leo XIII (1878-1903). Leo XII was pope in the 1820s.
Yes, I did mean Leo XIII ... just didn’t hit the “I” key enough times.
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