Posted on 10/31/2013 5:17:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON — The historic blunders of President Barack Obama’s embarrassing healthcare rollout demonstrate spectacularly the utter failure of what? Let me tell you. They are the blunders of what was once called the “Brightest Generation” in American history, the 1960s generation. It did not start with Obama. His blunders were just a continuance of their blunders.
By the 1960s generation I mean the pot-smoking, war-protesting, guitar-strumming kids of the left—not the majority from the 1960s generation, not the silent majority, but the minority. They were the miracle workers in politics: Jean-François Kerry, the Clintons, Al Gore, Joe Biden, and all the rest. Their sages such as Saul Alinsky formalized their balderdash in learned tomes for their successors, for instance, Our President. The media kept whooping it up for them. Their every pratfall was portrayed as a great success. Well, make a success of the healthcare rollout.
The healthcare disaster, first suggested to the American people by Hillary in the 1990s, and then rammed through a Democratic majority of both chambers of Congress by Obama and the dunderheads on his staff, is the most incompetent piece of legislation in American history. Not incidentally, it is the most energetic piece of legislation in American history. It envisages a nation of robust Americans mandated by law to have perfect health and then to die, all according to a national standard formulated by the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
Just consider a part of the Master Plan, the rollout. It utterly failed. When the quacks are done tweaking to its various computer portals and other applications to get them upright and facing the dubious American public, the next disaster will be the hackers’ feast. HealthCare.gov will be a swindler’s dream-come true. Its problems will go on for years to come.
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Not to quibble, but is not “CRONY CAPITALISM” really FACISM?
It’s true that obamateur’s army of inepticons represents the first cadre of 60’s radicals to gain federal power. Bill Clinton was an (ahem) dress rehearsal, but this clown circus is the live show.
I’ll leave it to you and history to judge the results.
Google or Yahoo could not get it right. It’s designed to fail so that we get single payer. It’s just failing faster than expected.
This may be the Gettysburg clump of trees of the progressive movement - its high water mark.
It is worse than that. Consider..the “children of the ‘60’s spawned in the classroom and on the campus. Where are they today?
STILL in the classroom and on the campus. They are the “teachers” in the middle and high schools. They are the “Professors” on the nation’s campuses, NEVER having left the womb of the classroom. Never any experience in what is know as the “real world”. STILL convinced that their beliefs and ideas are the road to utopia.
They occupy sit at the desks and microphones of what was once the American media, still spewing the rhetoric of their youth, albeit without the strumming of the guitars.
They are the ones who scream the loudest when what they themselves have created blows up in their faces.
Spot on!
Accurate & concise.
Too bad it is a bit too long to fit on the tombstone of the United States of America.
> “This may be the Gettysburg clump of trees of the progressive movement - its high water mark.”
One can only hope this is true.
That would be a “copse” of trees. However, I agree with you. Tell Meckley I said hello.
That would be a “copse” of trees. However, I agree with you. Tell Meckley I said hello.
Government’s role should be to set the rules and make sure they are followed.
Unfortunately, government’s role has expanded into determining who the winners and losers in the marketplace will be.
Case in point, the Chrysler bailout in the late 70s.....They determined that Chrysler was not going to be a loser, in spite of all the bad decisions they made....it set a horrible precedent, as from that point on, the expectation was that if a company was “too big to fail”, the government would step in and save them.
Meckley?
What does the author mean when he talks about the Children of the 60s? That would have to be the people of the “Silent Generation” and the “Boomer Generation”, do you think that the teachers in their 50s and 60s and 70s, are the problem among the members of the NEA, the teacher’s union?
I put the phrase in QUOTES, as I have heard them spoken that way referring to those that GREW UP in the ‘60s. The “Boomers” and “Silent Generation” didn’t mean the same thing. The Boomers were those BORN in the “boom” after WWII. Add 20 years to the end of WWII and we are into the middle of the 1960’s and the escalation of Vietnam. Frankly I’ve never thought of it, but those BOOMERS, living long enough to be in their late teens and earlier twenties were, in reality, the kids of the 1960’s.
In 1960 the Silent generation ranged in age from 15 through 35.
In 1965 the Boomers aged from 1 year old through age 19.
Almost all of the youthful icons of the 1960s were the Silent generation, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, the Chicago Seven, etc., but the reality of what caused the downfall of America and the 1960s wasn’t the children, it was the adults, the JFK/LBJ, Warren Court, Walter Cronkite, and generals and leaders that ran America and ran NOW and the ACLU and the teacher’s unions and the media and the Senate, Universities, Hollywood, the Congress, the Governors, the adult Americans, not the kids.
Perhaps it is Crony Fascism. That is typically what a country gets when it allows the criminally insane to govern.
Tyrrell was in college himself back then and he's still fighting the battles of those days. He got lost somewhere back in the 1990s and didn't notice a new generation has grown up since then.
People like the Obamas who were in law school in the late 1980s weren't really the same generation as the protestors of twenty years before any more than people who are young today are.
It's pretty sloppy usage and it helps account for Tyrrell's lack of influence nowadays. But if you spend enough time online you realize that a lot of people who write about politics have a hobby horse or screw loose or obsession about something.
Sometimes it seems as though the history of the modern left in America of the entire 20th and even the 21st century, will be described as being a result of ‘teenagers of the 1960s’.
At least the references to boomers having created Social Security and other ancient legislation is almost never seen on these threads anymore, although they do still get credited with things like Roe v Wade, and foreign policy and military policy of the 1960s and early 1970s.
“It’s not “crony capitalism.” It’s “crony socialism.”
It isn’t either one, it’s “FASCISM!”
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