Posted on 07/07/2009 2:03:37 AM PDT by Scanian
A liberal acquaintance couldn't understand why conservatives are impatient with Obama. Didn't conservatives get enough of a chance with 30 years of Reagan and Bush, he asked?
OK, it's true that conservatives did get some tax-rate cuts. And we did win the cold war. And we did roll back one social program, welfare, a little, for a while.
But conservatives look on the Obama administration so far and say: Liberals are like the French Bourbons -- the royal house of France, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, deposed in the French Revolution.
After the defeat of Napoleon the Bourbon kings were restored in 1814. Talleyrand was disappointed. They have learned nothing, and they have forgotten nothing, he said.
The whole point of the Reagan era was to demonstrate that government should keep its cotton-picking hands off the economy. Governments and their mega-projects, their subsidies, "backing winners," "investments," always end in tears, just like they did in the stagflation of the late 1970s.
But it's pretty obvious that our Democratic friends have learned nothing from the lessons of the Reagan era, and have forgotten none of their old liberal delusions.
First we got a trillion dollar special-interest giveaway that was called a stimulus package. But unemployment keeps going up, now to 9.5 percent. Then the House of Representatives has passed a cap-and-trade energy bill that's another special-interest giveaway. Next up is a trillion dollar health reform bill that proposes to lower costs while increasing the number of people covered.
Yet Democrats are honest enough to be ashamed of what they are doing. Why else would they pass their trillion dollar stimulus bill without serious hearings or even a copy of the bill available to read. The same is clearly true of the cap-and-trade bill that passed the House of Representatives, sight unseen
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I sure hope when the Bastille is stormed we have enough Robespierre to take care of this for a couple of generations.
Didn't the Robespierre brothers meet the same fate that they'd been dishing to others?
No. The scenario was that leftwing tyrants destroy this country and the people finally revolt and take them out. The Robespierres will be the ones who keep taking them out after everyone else is satiated.
It worked out so well for the French.
Well, I guess I could call them something else in my scenario... the Finishers? The Punishers?
The French lost their religion. Literally.
The whole point of the Reagan era was to demonstrate that government should keep its cotton-picking hands off the economy,and it worked something the liberals can never understand they always want the free lunch.
Agreed. Robespierre was a humanist who judicially murdered people in the name of his humanist ideals.
He and Obama are soul-mates. When the new Terror comes, the Obamaites will be its cheerleaders.
I agree with the analogy, not the end result. Awhile back, Glen Beck was talking with two people on his show that basically said we are headed for another revolution. It may be like our first revolution OR it could devolve into a French Revolution.
I am convinced that we have reached the tipping point and the next push will determine our future. I don’t know what that push is; I only know that we will recognize it when it happens. And as the Irish say, “Woe betide”.
Liberals are the eternal children in fantasy-land. They want things, like ponies, without ever considering how it will be paid for or taken care of. They dream up the “perfect” world without acknowledging the cold hand of history and how most government sponsored programs fail. It’s true, they never learn their lesson.
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