Posted on 03/13/2009 6:13:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
We've been hearing a lot of criticism of Barack Obama in recent days from pro-Obama corners — from celebrity investor Warren Buffett, from moderate conservative columnist David Brooks, from one of the Democratic Party's deepest thinkers, William Galston — all along the same lines:
Put aside your plans, announced in your budget, for national health insurance, for a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gases, for effectively abolishing the secret ballot in unionization elections.
And, they might have added, for plans to reduce charitable deductions to channel money away from charities and nonprofits and toward the government.
Pay attention to the first thing on your platter and the nation's, Buffett and Brooks and Galston say: the financial crisis.
The answer Obama has given, in advance, is that we can solve our economic problems only by advancing these other programs. But the real answer came from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November: "Never let a serious crisis go to waste."
None of the issues addressed in the Obama budget was in any way a cause of the financial crisis.
We did not have a housing bubble collapse because we don't have a national health insurance program. We don't have toxic waste clogging the balance sheets of the banks and other financial institutions because of carbon emissions. The Bush tax cuts were not a proximate cause of the giant public debt being run up under the Toxic Assets Relief Program or the 2009 stimulus package.
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Zero never had focus.
He thought from swearing in his personal magic would transform Washington and the entire country in a vision of Change.
50 days later hes got nobody in the treasury, DC is eating him alive, one mistake a day, etc etc.
“...from one of the Democratic Party’s deepest thinkers...”
LOL! One actually EXISTS?
Drudge has a news item about Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway losing it’s AAA rating.
What in the world were these people thinking when they backed this marxist hatemonger.
Did they think Ayers and Wright were just guys in the neighborhood.
vaudine
Face it.....the man is not a leader and is in way over his head. The only thing he does is follow orders from the Democrats. Can you imagine Reagan following orders from the Republicans?
Bill Clinton told us during the onset of the economic meltdown that what Barky O did was call around to the dem leaders and tell them that they just needed to tell him what needed to be sold to the public and he would go out and sell it.
FGS, Bill Clinton warned us.
It’s not like a whole bunch of others don’t know that he’s their snake oil salesman. He has to be managed very closely and carefully.
Sure! He said deepest thinkers, nothing about that thinking being clear!
Something about that phrase doesn't add up.
Oh, he’s not losing focus, he’s just proving he can “do more than one thing at a time”.
Wrong.
Badly.
Bravo to IBD. I love those guys. Come on give them a cheer! They are saying & have been saying stuff no other media has the guts to say. Onward!
TEA PARTY NOW!
Obambi’s approval ratings are getting lower. This will continue as hard reality seeps in to more and more of the mindless liberal zombie sheep and confused independents who crossed over to vote for him.
I have not heard that before. Not that I doubt it, but do you have a source for that info?
Focus? All us?
Why should he listen to any of them? They are his true master. Besides, now that he’s been elected the prez, he doesn’t need them any more.
Why should he listen to any of them? They aren't his true master. Besides, now that he’s been elected the prez, he doesn’t need them any more.
Don't the teleprompters have brightness/contrast/depth adjustments to keep that from happening? /s
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