Posted on 03/05/2009 10:26:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Forget the pork. Forget the waste. Forget the 8,570 earmarks in a bill supported by a president who poses as the scourge of earmarks. Forget the “$2 trillion in savings” that “we have already identified,” $1.6 trillion of which President Obama’s budget director later admits is the “savings” of not continuing the surge in Iraq until 2019—11 years after George Bush ended it, and eight years after even Bush would have had us out of Iraq completely.
Forget all of this. This is run-of-the-mill budget trickery. True, Obama’s tricks come festooned with strings of zeros tacked onto the end. But that’s a matter of scale, not principle.
All presidents do that. But few undertake the kind of brazen deception at the heart of Obama’s radically transformative economic plan, a rhetorical sleight of hand so smoothly offered that few noticed.
The logic of Obama’s address to Congress went like this:
“Our economy did not fall into decline overnight,” he averred. Indeed, it all began before the housing crisis.
What did we do wrong? We are paying for past sins in three principal areas: energy, health care, and education—importing too much oil and not finding new sources of energy (as in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Outer Continental Shelf?), not reforming health care, and tolerating too many bad schools.
The “day of reckoning” has arrived. And because “it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament,” Obama has come to redeem us with his far-seeing program of universal, heavily nationalized health care; a cap-and-trade tax on energy; and a major federalization of education with universal access to college as the goal.
Amazing.
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Krauthammer nails it!!! One of his best efforts!!
The money thrown away is bad enough, but the really scary stuff is the radical changes in policies and new bureaucracies spawned by them that would be next-to-impossible (short of a revolutionn) to undo. This is our Rubicon!
Sorry Charles K , you were part of the problem in the last election. Why are you surprised at what Obie hath wrought and will wrought?
You also nail it.
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God help us. Which came first: Obama or the crisis?
God help us. Which came first: Obama or the crisis?
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The enabler is 0bama.
There it is.
A slogan for the ages. Some knew this was in the cards, some will learn the hard way. But we'll all pay.
The Fed created too much money in 1927 leading to speculation and crash.Saint Delano with his "solution" shredded the Constitution, destroyed self-confidence, prolonged the depression.
Carter, too, was a malicious idiot. His CRA led to this.
Clinton, Gorelick, Raines, Maxine, Franks, Schumer, Dodd.
Paulson, Bernanke--now Geithner.
But at heart is Karl Marx who loomed large in Frank Marshall Davis' legend, as Davis does in Hussein's.
Alinsky the fellow traveler acknowledging "Lucifer the very first radical"--oh but Hussein is a Christian--
Not.
Hussein is not "a politician" as Krauthammer suggests--he is a narcissist agent of history, an avenger, a destroyer of worlds.
He means to destroy the America which is great, to break her, trample her, remake her as did Stalin and Mao their respective countries.
Can I vote for generalised stupidity on the part of the electorate AND uniform corruption on the part of the elected class, stemming from not later than 1913?
Gee, thanks. I apologise for actually reading, and becoming moderately informed about, history.
Another classic!
You nailed it!
A big question Freepers need to be asking is
What is OMB Watch and why do complaints about the Social Security Administration link to that site?
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” said Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. “This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.”.."
They are making the crisis worse deliberately to pass all the goodies.
And Dr. Charles Krauthammer has just now figured this out? He is as dumb as sean (I want to have a beer with bo) hannity.
I saw these two clowns on Fox for the whole time bo was perpetrating his fraud on the American People and these two rinos didn’t even mention the fact that bo is Constitutionally Unqualified to be POTUS.
Oh no, sean hannity wanted to go have a beer with bo. How about Dr. Charles? I hope he likes sour kraut with his beer.
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