Posted on 07/28/2011 5:04:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
We're in the midst of a great four-year national debate on the size and reach of government, the future of the welfare state, indeed, the nature of the social contract between citizen and state.
The distinctive visions of the two parties — social-democratic vs. limited-government — have underlain every debate on every issue since Barack Obama's inauguration: the stimulus, the auto bailouts, health care reform, financial regulation, deficit spending. Everything.
The debt ceiling is but the latest focus of this fundamental divide.
The sausage-making may be unsightly, but the problem isn't that Washington is broken, that ridiculous cliche.
The problem is these two visions are in competition, and a definitive popular verdict has yet to be rendered.
We're only at the midpoint. Obama won a great victory in 2008 that he took as a mandate to transform America toward European-style social democracy.
The subsequent counterrevolution delivered to that project a staggering rebuke in November 2010. Under our incremental system, however, a rebuke delivered is not a mandate conferred.
That awaits definitive resolution in November 2012. I have every sympathy with the conservative counterrevolutionaries.
Their containment of the Obama experiment has been remarkable.
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I’m happy to deal with the truth but your post is incomprehensible so judgment must be suspended.
“Are we so tiny we must hear only praise?”
Off-topic, but that’s a GREAT line...
Just sayin’...
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