Victor Davis Hanson: Crazy Times — Crazier Times to Follow - when nonsense is passed off as wisdom

NRO ^ | April 23, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Tolik]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/victordavishanson/index:

Victor Davis Hanson: Confessions of a Contrarian [deconstructing Obama, the Left and more]

Victor Davis Hanson: Obamatopia

Can We Get Beyond Race?

Victor Davis Hanson: Our New Sort of War. It might be the most dangerous of all

Victor Davis Hanson: President of the World ...deeply pessimistic view of what America was and is

The Politics Of Blame

Victor Davis Hanson: The Postnational, Postmodern, Post-everything Presidential Trip

Victor Davis Hanson: President Obama’s First 70 Days. It really does all make sense

Victor Davis Hanson: G-20 Outtakes. Europe Got Obama, Now What? Obama is moving to the left of Europe

Victor Davis Hanson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly —Part Three of Three [The Good]

Victor Davis Hanson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly —Part Two of Three [The Ugly]

Victor Davis Hanson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly —Part One of Three

Victor Davis Hanson: American Mob Rule. We need a Socrates in Washington right now

Victor Davis Hanson: Thoughts About Depressed Americans

Victor Davis Hanson: Bush Did It. What a difference an election makes [Brilliant Parody]

Victor Davis Hanson: Dr. Obama: First, Do No Harm. Let nature do its work

Victor Davis Hanson: Our Battered American [gets angrier - Must Read Rant]

[Tolik]

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[anniegetyourgun]

This president (and his minions) is burning down the house.

[Christian4Bush]

VDH bump

[Noumenon]

There are no contradictions. They are doing it on purpose. They’d rather reign in hell than co-exist with the rest of us in heaven.

War is coming.

[RexBeach]

The Obama Administration is proposing just this: In order to get sober, drink A LOT more bourbon.

Yeah, that’ll do it.

Good post of Victor Hanson Davis.

[RexBeach]

Oops. Victor Davis Hanson.

[DuncanWaring]

Bill Clinton balanced his last budgets ... A Republican president has not balanced a budget since Dwight Eisenhower did it over a half-century ago.

NO president has balanced a budget since Dwight Eisenhower did it over a half-century ago.

According to the Bureau of the Public Debt, the last year the national debt went down was 1957.

Clinton got within about $20 billion of breaking-even once, but the national debt increased every single year of his presidency.

[Hugin]

I suppose that’s because money collected for Social Security was counted as income, even though it was invested in US bonds. They add to the debt, but aren’t counted in the budget as a deficit. Cute trick.

Just wait until the 70 trillion in unfunded entitelments begin to come due in the next decade. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

[Tolik]

True. But rhetorically speaking - when we learned this year that money can be counted in “trillions” - Clinton’s “within about $20 billion of breaking-even” sounds good enough. Of course, without Gingrich republicans on his case, Clinton would not done it. But the larger point remains: the republican congress during the Bush administration forgot what fiscal responsibility means.

I can add another related point. Republican *party* is not a single idea party like many parliamentary parties of Europe, Israel, etc, but more a *coalition*. There is a very substantial number of socially moderate people and lots of businessmen who voted R for the reason of fiscal responsibility. They are not ideological and can be persuaded to swing. I know quite a good number of those personally. When Republicans stopped being fiscally responsible, these people voted Obama on the “feel good” reason alone. Shallow and not forward thinking? Yes. But it’s the fact.

[anniegetyourgun]

Of that, I have no doubt. This guy serves the one who reigns in hell.

[garybob]

Bump for later.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There have been a few crazy years like 2009 in American history — 1860, 1929, 1941, and 1968

But I'd wager that our solons and the public talked common sense and had honest debates about the issues. We live in a strange world today with Orwellian doublespeak dialog, a failed press, moral relativism and officials and reporters flipflopping and denying their previous positions. It's Alice in Wonderland come true.

[Lurker]

With apologies to Heinlein, future historians will look back on this period and call them "The Crazy Years". That of course assumes that there will be any historians in the future.

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[Noumenon]

I’d lay no wager on that.

Well, as long as I have a rifle, I’ve still got a ‘vote’.

[JustAmy]

Victor Davis Hanson ping.

[happygrl]

War is coming.

Yes it is; the worst of it is that it may be within the Republic.

[Noumenon]

It is certain that it will be Obamunists against patriots. They’ve made their intentions clear.

But as long as you have a rifle and the skill to use it, you’ve got a vote.

[goodnesswins]

He’s doing it willfully, on purpose....right in front of the IDIOTS who voted for him.....and us, who knew this would happen. Makes me sick.