The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime:

Telegraph ^ | August 7th, 2010 | Nile Gardiner

[Candor7]

What the great French historian Alexis de Tocqueville would make of today’s Obama administration were he alive today is anyone’s guess. But I would wager that the author of L’Ancien Régime and Democracy in America would be less than impressed with the extravagance and arrogance on display among the White House elites that rule America as though they had been handed some divine right to govern with impunity.

It is the kind of impunity that has been highlighted on the world stage this week by Michelle Obama’s hugely costly trip to Spain, which has prompted a New York Post columnist Andrea Tantaros to dub the First Lady a contemporary Marie Antoinette. As The Telegraph reports, while the Obamas are covering their own vacation expenses such as accommodation, the trip may cost US taxpayers as much as $375,000 in terms of secret service security and flight costs on Air Force Two.

The timing of this lavish European vacation could not have come at a worse moment, when unemployment in America stands at 10 percent, and large numbers of Americans are fighting to survive financially in the wake of the global economic downturn............( more at link)

[Candor7]

Ancien Regime? Fascist Junta more like.

[bruinbirdman]

" highlighted on the world stage this week by Michelle Obama’s hugely costly trip to Spain"

Mrs. Hussein Obama has a new book coming out:

Spain on $75,000 a day

yitbos

[Candor7]

There is however a political revolution fast approaching Washington that is driven not by mob rule but by the power of ideas and principles, based upon the ideals of the Founding Fathers and the US Constitution. It is a distinctly conservative revolution that is sweeping America and is reflected in almost every poll ahead of this November’s mid-terms. It is based on a belief in individual liberty, limited government, and above all, political accountability from the ruling elites. The Obama administration’s mantra may well be “let them eat cake”, as it continues to gorge itself on taxpayers’ money, but it will be looking nervously over its shoulder as public unease mounts.

(A good reporter, unlike those Journolisters in the USA)

[dr_lew]

Ha ha! Wasn’t that an old book? “Spain on $5 a day” ? I tried to look it up but no luck. I could swear I had it out of the library when I was a kid.

[bruinbirdman]

"driven not by mob rule but by the power of ideas and principles"

I recall watching Newt, Robert Walker, B-1 Bob Dornan, Duke Cunningham, and a bunch of other Republican freshman first, take advantage of after hours House time on C-Span.

That resulted in the "Contract With America".

Rush Limbaugh became an honorary freshman congressman.

Today, the new contract will the result of the alternative grass roots press, all of which started with FreeRepublic and Matt Drudge.

yitbos

[Need4Truth]

It was “Europe on $5 a Day”.

[Blado]

I for one am investing in guillotine manufacturers

[genghis]

My theory is it is like fdr.
Fdr ( and hoover) turned a slight downturn into a 15 year nightmare.

[TigersEye]

There’s a Brit who gets it. More so than many Americans.

[bruinbirdman]

"There’s a Brit who gets it."

"As much as the media establishment turn a blind eye to stories like this, which are major news in the international media, the American public is increasingly turning to alternative news sources, including the British press, which has a far less deferential approach towards the White House. "

yitbos

[TigersEye]

He might be bragging but he’s not exaggerating. A large percentage of the best articles about American politics that I’ve read in the last year were British written and published.

[bruinbirdman]

"He might be bragging but he’s not exaggerating."

This article has more than 600 comments at The Telegraph.

The Telegraph is aware of its U.S.A. audience.

Rupert Murdoch has taken The Times to subscription like the WSJ. That was my second favorite UK source. Now it is erased from "favorites".

yitbos

[Blueflag]

But sadly, read the comments under the article. The O-Kool-Aid has crossed the Atlantic.

[Fred911]

You won’t see the MSM pointing out the truth like this.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

-Barack Hussein Obama

[TigersEye]

The O-Kool-Aid has crossed the Atlantic.

As long as they're not writing the articles. They can have him too. I think he hates Britain more than he hates America.

[TigersEye]

Not ours that’s for sure.