Another great analysis for your Crap Sandwich Destruction tool box.
Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared “we have chosen hope over fear.” Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.
And yet more damaging to Obama’s image than all the hypocrisies in the appointment process is his signature bill: the stimulus package. He inexplicably delegated the writing to Nancy Pelosi and the barons of the House. The product, which inevitably carries Obama’s name, was not just bad, not just flawed, but a legislative abomination…
It’s not just pages and pages of special-interest tax breaks, giveaways and protections, one of which would set off a ruinous Smoot-Hawley trade war. It’s not just the waste, such as the $88.6 million for new construction for Milwaukee Public Schools, which, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, have shrinking enrollment, 15 vacant schools and, quite logically, no plans for new construction.
It’s the essential fraud of rushing through a bill in which the normal rules (committee hearings, finding revenue to pay for the programs) are suspended on the grounds that a national emergency requires an immediate job-creating stimulus — and then throwing into it hundreds of billions that have nothing to do with stimulus, that Congress’s own budget office says won’t be spent until 2011 and beyond, and that are little more than the back-scratching, special-interest, lobby-driven parochialism that Obama came to Washington to abolish. He said.
I have never known Charles to be wrong.
If this is a national crisis and pending “catastrophe”, then why only 26 billion and why did nearly 80 BILLION of the first TARP monies get thrown away? Looks like a severe market correction was about to hit rock bottom to me. Now I fear the worst… a prolonged and deepening recession.
I am starting to view this stimulus bill as a national tragedy.
This is the typical approach of a totalitarian. First, declare an emergency, second, declare there is no time for critical examination. Then, thirdly, hope people will embrace the radical solution out of fear. Not with my country, comrade Hussein! Randy.
This was one of CK’s best observations and right to the minute or the second. By the way, anyone notice how RFK. Jr. has taken a stand with the Islamics; condemning pork? I think it was Wednesday or Thursday during one of his visits to Earth.
This country needs some serious adult supervision. FAST.
Mr. Krauthammer is spot on. If we need fear why didn’t mr o’baamaa tell us to be very afraid because he is not going to try terrorists who have murdered our service personnel. We need to be very afraid that we have just sent a message that we are lambs with targets painted on and we will be very gentle in our response if killed again. This may be worse for our nation’s future and safety than pelosi’s special interest irresponsible spending bill.
Look at where he’s focusing the fear, Sable. He and his people have focused everything on our most glaring weakness; our materialism. Not to sound pious, but he’s preaching to a people who have not had to sacrifice a thing since 1946.
We went from a country which only five years after using gas coupons in 1946 were building homes with two car garages in 1951. Compound the dimensions of material consumption – not that it wasn’t through sweat equity (I too worked construction jobs) – and then think of what’s taken for granted. Today we talk about health care as though we were characters out of “General Hospital”, we hear about intelligence operations as if James Bond lived next door and we have expections of children going to college expecting it to represent something more than the 13th through 26th years of high school (after which they’ll come home for a few years).
And a ‘Cold War’ was waged against the very socialism that Baraq wants us to pay for, and we thought we fought and won it while watching TV and going to Disneyland and SuperBowls.
When people live in fantasies dragons are real.
Let them listen to a terrorist or jihadist (best a contemporary) speak in terms of his or her belief, place the average person at the sight of a bombing where blood is sticky and smells (where the remote won’t provide escape). That is fear even the bravest understand.
Great observation, Sable. Per habit, I screed on in excessive agreement.
But, in Boston, we haven’t seen a ‘profile in courage’ since Paul Revere rode by.
“Barack Obama is a transformational figure!” Bwahahhahhaaaaahhhhh!!! PSYCH!