Posted on 12/22/2009 7:29:27 PM PST by rabscuttle385
This week the Senate grinches stole Christmas. The Obama Nation is getting Obamacare.
It’s easy to blame the sixty Democrats, as the Wall Street Journal does, for "the worse bill ever." It solemnly declares: "These 60 Democrats are creating a future of epic increases in spending, taxes and command--and control regulation."
True enough. But what's the root cause of this permanent disaster?
Sorry, friends, but it’s not the Democrats, nor the American people who elected them.
The real culprits are two Republicans who ran the show the previous eight years: George W. Bush and his "master political strategist" Karl Rove. If it weren’t for these two in the White House, the Democrats wouldn’t have sixty senators, including a professional comedian from Minnesota, to close off debate and ram down our throats a bill worse than Hillary Care.
The fact is that the Bush & Rove act pushed through a litany of ruinous government policies that led to the lowest approval numbers in history:
the undeclared and costly War in Iraq and its stepchild the unconstitutional Patriot Act.
the monstrous No Child Left Behind Act that dramatically increased federal intervention in private education.
the Prescription Drug Act that gave the American people another benefit-corrupted entitlement and unfunded liability.
large and growing deficits and national debt.
the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, largely due to their failure to reform government-sponsored agencies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
large and growing deficits and national debt (according to the Cato Institute's latest report, George W. Bush was the biggest spender since LBJ!).
The supply-side tax cuts were probably the only major piece of economic legislation that Bush/Rove deserve credit for, but even then, they blundered in not making the tax cuts permanent. So now even if the Republicans take back Capitol Hill in the 2010 elections, all President Obama has to do is veto an extension of the Bush tax cuts, and voila, taxes will increase automatically.
In short, we are paying a heavy price for the "compassionate conservativism" of Bush/Rove.
Once Obamacare becomes law, like Medicare and other "Great Society" programs, it will never end. We will be stuck with national health care for the rest of our lives.
And how are Bush and Rove rewarded? We aren’t seeing much of George Bush, who is quietly ensconced in his new digs in Texas.
The tragedy is Karl Rove, who ironically has been rewarded by conservatives. He’s treated like a triumphant general on Fox News almost every night and was signed on as a regular columnist in the prestigious Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Skousen is a renowned financial economist, author and university professor. He has been the editor of the financial advice newsletter, Forecasts & Strategies, for 28 years. Two of his books highlight Milton Friedman's career: "The Making of Modern Economics" and "Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes?." Check out his latest book "The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, And John Maynard Keynes" or "Investing in One Lesson" and "EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World." He is the producer of FreedomFest, the world's largest gathering of free minds, in Las Vegas every July (www.freedomfest.com).
I can’t believe Human Events let this one through.
The author also fails to mention the role played by Democrat congressmen in promoting fannie mae.
There is one republican we can truly blame: McCain. If he had simply stayed as conservative through the years as when he started he could have wiped the floor with Zero. Instead he sucked up to the redstream press and bit their poison apple. He denied America a real choice.
W is content to let history judge him. James Earl Carter has been attempting to bend history ever since his humiliating defeat in 1980.
I blame all those morons I saw on my tv election night chanting “Yes we can”....
Not to mention Ron Paul types who go around trying to corrupt the meaning of the Consitution by joining in with the left-wing in attacks against our National Security and of course President Bush.
Skousen is a Libertarian, which says it all.
The Paulites, the anti war, leave Iran alone crowd
are the democrats best friend.
As I recall, the justification for the U.S. invasion of Iraq was to enforce compliance with UN inspections for "weapons of mass destruction." Turns out there weren't any, or at least, none of any significance--I do remember the reports that some yellowcake uranium was found, as were a couple of minor leftovers that had not been destroyed after the first Gulf War.
Right now, the justification--the purpose--for the ongoing conflict in Iraq. I, for one, can not continue to support an armed conflict whose purpose keeps changing after the fact or whose purpose is vague and ill-defined.
That said, I do believe that the conflict in Afghanistan was unquestionably legitimate but terribly mismanaged.
“The author also fails to mention the role played by Democrat congressmen in promoting fannie mae.”
He also fails to consider the alternative (shudder), President Al Gore. Can you imagine Al Gore being our POTUS on 9-11?
Why dont you try reading the Congressional Authorization for Military Force in Iraq. It lists many more reasons then just UN sanctions or WMD.
Sorry about your guy Saddam not getting to stay in power are you?
He reads more like an escaped lunatic.
Post a link and I'll read it.
Sorry about your guy Saddam not getting to stay in power are you?
Who said I supported Saddam?
Saddam was an a-hole and a tyrant who had bad things coming to him, no matter what, as is what often happens to tyrants and dictators.
Reid, Pelosi and 0bama OWN deathcare.
Total, unadulterated nonsense. If GWB hadn’t been elected in 2000, then we’d have had eight years of President Al Gore. I wonder how this maniac Skousen would have reacted to THAT?
The Congressional Authorization of Miltary Force in Iraq is easy to find in any search engine.
And every anti-war left-winger I know claims that they do not support Saddam Hussein and that he was a bad man but then they make arguments that he should still be in power and write or post articles like this claiming how much they opppose Bush.
Why not just admit that?
It's not quite that simple. Altogether, the Iraq War Resolution cited 23 separate reasons for military action against Iraq. The U.N. resolutions were only one of them.
Actually I’m stunned that this thread’s responses, who knew that Kos/DU had so many cross posters at freerepublic. It’s pretty funny. I was not a fan of Bush but to blame what is going on on Bush is really rich, talk about enablers.
Look it up for yourself, rab.
It's not like it's obscure or anything.
Even I've managed to look things up when given a pointer or two.
Cheers!
Thanks for the link. I'm going to try and read through it thoroughly tonight and tomorrow, in between a stack of other research papers I need to go through.
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