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.
Obama is quickly moving from disaster to nightmare. I cannot believe the House including a lot of Republicans voted for this volunteer Obama Brownshirts. ACORN, SEIU and the Obama Brown Shirts will run the 2010 elections.
“Obama is smart, quick and charming, and, as he showed on “The Tonight Show,””
Oh yeah, I’m sure all the handicapped people of the world were charmed...
Great piece.
He stole my tagline!
I keep telling people the Republicans are not going to help you. They are part of the problem.
“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.” “
Obviously he has no idea that one of the most important value that built America is honoring a contract.
I’m with Goodwin. The morons in Congress, ALL OF THEM, are totally out of control. I believe it’s time for the people to take their government back. Those ***holes are abusing the power WE THE PEOPLE are only lending to them.
yeah, buried in the sunday daily news. if it was in monday’s paper, that would be something.
I don’t know who he is but, I love this guy.
Well, not these "republicans." But if we got a few Duncan Hunters in the party, it could be proud again of its name.
Did the author vote for him? I am disgusted with all those who voted for Obama and now express shock and outrage over the things he does. Where were they during the campaign?
bttt
>I cannot believe the House including a lot of Republicans voted for this volunteer Obama Brownshirts.
The problem is that they are politicians, first and foremost. They are seeing this massive power-grab as an opportunity... for themselves.
I always liked that Barbour. He nailed em with the tax, spend and borrow line.
Leno is starting to get it. As Barry Goldwater put it "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
The French Revolution showed what happens when you have a government unconstrained by a Constitution, traditions, or law. It was not pretty.
zero never had a real job in his life.
he thinks he’s taking money from the rich,
but the middle and lower classes will be paying for generations.
During WW2 we raised a military of 12 million, mainly men. Now if we conscript 18 year old men and women, that number will be atleast 20 million. We had to build barracks and additional forts and installations to house the WW2 army. Today those facilities are closed and torn down. With the ongoing BRAC 2005 we are dropping the number of existing bases further down. So where are all those volunteer kids going to be housed and fed when they do their 90 days or so in barracks and boarding facilities??? Typical BO and fed hasty enaction of policies with little or no after thought.
The very merry elitist gang who is responsible of hyping and elected the pathetic "One" a bankrupt neighborhood huckster-in-chief of the pathetic new Amerika, a worker's paradise.
"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."
Wrong, One Wonderful exception is Iowa's Senator Chuck Grassley, a man above reproach that I can personally vouch for a man of unwavering honesty and principle. Just as FReepers got to know what makes Mike Huckabee is made of first hand, I know Grassley personally!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.