Posted on 03/22/2009 6:59:33 PM PDT by GOPGuide
Everybody makes mistakes, and I made a beaut the other day. I was wrong to call members of Congress blow-hards and buffoons and declare them worse than useless.
I was too kind.
I should have said our representatives are gangsters in pinstripes and pearls. They are petty tyrants and the more power they grab, the more at risk we are. Homeland Security should flash Code Red any time this Congress is in session.
It is twilight in America now. The House vote to use the tax code to retroactively punish bonus babies was an act of sheer madness. What started as phony outrage at AIG has crossed the line into insane policy. It is stunning that the vote was lopsided and bipartisan.
The Senate is itchy to go along, and President Obama says he's ready to tighten the thumbscrews on the banks. Is there no adult who will bring a straitjacket?
We should all be very afraid. Class warfare is mere predicate for a witch hunt that, once unleashed, will not stop with misbegotten wealth. It will punish success and stifle innovation. Dissent will invite dishonor.
That Congress is a gang of cheap connivers is not news. Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangel, Charles Grassley, Barney Frank - they have been national embarrassments for years.
But now they are dangerous, emboldened by public fear and anger. They know nothing, but have power and smell opportunity for more.
Missing in action is the Barack Obama who vowed to unite the country around common values. Lately he has been the very opposite of the man he promised. Instead of hope, many have a growing fear of the arrogant government he leads.
Obama is smart, quick and charming, and, as he showed on "The Tonight Show," owner of a thousand-watt smile he can deploy at will. He silkily manages to make the ridiculous sound reasonable. When he insults the Special Olympics, he is forgiven.
Yet even "Tonight" host Jay Leno broke from full flattery to reveal his qualms about the meaning of the bonus tax. "Here's something that kind of scared me," he said. "If the government decides they don't like a guy, all of a sudden, hey, we're going to tax you and then, boom, and it passes."
Obama brushed it off, part of an endless road show claim that he will bring back "common sense" to the financial system and restore "those values that built America."
If only. In truth, there is no history for what he is doing. He is the most radical President of our times, far outside the mainstream of our political philosophy.
He is not a reformer who fixes things. He fancies himself "transformative," a man who reshapes and reorders. It apparently begins with smashing the existing order under the pretext of managing the crisis he inherited.
During the campaign, a fellow journalist confided that "I know Obama is a Manchurian candidate, I just can't figure out what for."
I laughed then, but no more. Obama represents a secular religion that believes, no matter the malady, Washington is the antidote. More government is the chicken soup of his tribe.
It is an illusion of many Republicans and Democrats that Washington can successfully manage the economy and our lives. Our institutions and culture are too big, too diverse and too unruly to be run like a banana republic.
Yet the economic mess has robbed the nation of its confidence, and the vacuum is being filled by politicians bearing promises and borrowed dollars. The true cost of this "help" will come later, with back-breaking debt and a lack of growth and opportunity.
We can't say we haven't been warned. "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad" is more than folklore. It predicts our fate if we follow the government mob.
I think it’s their rationalization to spread the 90% bracket to all earners over $250K.
“Wow. First the NY Times, and now the Daily News.”
I read the NYDN every day. It is a somewhat schizophrenic publication. It’s reporting is horribly slanted left, sometimes sickeningly so, but its editorials are mainly Conservative.
Goodwin is a very, very moderate Republican, and not prone to conservatism-at-all-costs. This is a meaningful critique from someone who has been prone to give Obama a shot.
We are only 2 months into a 48 month march to a Marxist style Totalitarian Government. Or I could be overreacting to what is clearly happening to my beloved country.
Duh. He said so in his campaign. Where were you? What did you think "Change" meant? Twisty flourescent light bulbs in the White House?
Sheesh. Oh well, at least he woke up. Some never will.
Grassley’s remark about bankers needing to commit suicide removed any respect for him that I ever had.
Yeah Leno is a Dem. I bet he’s really gung ho for Obama’s cap and trade. It’s not like Leno has a stable of nearly 100 custom and historical cars that he drives. No Obama would never be seen with such a polluting oinker.
60 Minutes has their man in the oval office. So they make a show of criticism, so what? This will all be forgotten and laughed about in closed media circles by the 2010 elections.
Excellent piece bump.
Once the reeducation camps are up and running there will be a glut of housing available. The neighborhoods where these 0-vopos concentrate will fill their quotas and provide ample quarters. That 3rd Amendment? Just some archaic ramblings long since obsolete.
This is the second week in a row (that i am aware of) that the NY Daily News has had the guts to publish a sensible column that takes the rats to task for their selfish political scheme. Is Goodwin the NY Daily News’ token normal person?
So they make a show of criticism, so what? This will all be forgotten and laughed about in closed media circles by the 2010 elections.
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I simply asked where 60 Minutes was prior to the election, after noting a comment. I was not defending the show, nor did I post that I believed it was some kind of tide-turning event.
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I have gone past blaming Obama, he or whoever his handler is saw an in and took advantage of it. The problem is we have 53 million people who think change and hope is getting something for nothing. That is what I am really struggling with. Looking at people in the grocery store, or driving, etc. with their Obama stickers, and I think, how dare you think I owe you anything? How dare you cast your vote to do nothing but take, take, take.
Just as we saw with this bonus thing, the mob thinks that those that took that bonus are criminal. I have read on message boards where people are complaining that nobody should be allowed to make that much money since they aren’t. We are now a nation of whiners, an electorate that is made up of people that do nothing but have a pity party for themselves and want somebody else to take care of their bad choices.
Yes, and it finally -- at long last -- ended in the snow, on the retreat from Moscow in 1812.
Disorderly Republic begat Napoleon and Empire, and Empire's wars. The failure of the French First Republic was the doom of an entire generation that came of age between 1785 and 1810.
Napoleon's grandeur bled France white.
The essential difference between the American and French Revolutions was that the American Revolution was a revolt of people who were mostly property owners, while the French Revolution was a revolt of socialists without property who wanted to seize the property of the wealthy and nobility (and who then fought among themselves to see who got the loot).
Too little and too late for the MSM to be finding flaws with The One.
I’d like to see what would happen if a mob tried to ransack Malibu or Santa Monica, or OJs neighborhood.
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