Rich requests that I post my thoughts, not articles. Being that this blog remains in the slim remnant of society not yet nationalized, I could say bug off, but he is nice, so...
I think of Freedom, free markets, self responsibility, law and order and a strong national defense.
I think this country elected, without thought, a ultra-liberal and are now getting buyers remorse. His election (as was Clinton's) was the by product of special circumstances (a flawed Conservative candidate and anger some deserved and some invented by the media at the previous administration). He is governing from the left and being tugged leftward.
But now his oratory is meeting reality and this right center nation is understanding the consequences of the candidates pablum.
Left vs. Right comes down to government control vs. freedom. "Health care for everyone-it is a right", may sound nice, the reality of rationing and big brother involved in your health decisions and therefore potentially every aspect of everyones life, has awakened the country against those who value our freedom so lightly. And Rich, you just don't get this and never will.
As I previously posted, he could have started by including tort reform but chose to serve his special interests, just as he has done with the Auto bailout and the "stimulus", which ultimately, I think, will define his presidency, "Special interests before country".
It is too bad because he had a chance, he could have, like your St. Clinton did a little, been post partisan and post racial but he chose instead to describe police as stupid and nominate a justice primarily on the basis of her race. He could have cut taxes, which even he knows would have helped the economy recover.
Lastly, I think it is a joke, with our government awash in a sea of red ink for the fools on the left to state that the "bond ghouls" will save us. The liberal democratic party is for a never ending expansion of government which will inevitably take a larger share of economic production (a prime example is health care) and to somehow criticise Conservatives who want to limit government and spending and taxes, while placing our future in the hands of "bond ghouls" is well...a joke.
I could go on and probably, at some point will, but the current dose of morning coffee is waining and the beach calls.
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Oceania Visible On Horizon 25 Years Later
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON | Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:20 PM PT
In George Orwell's allegorical novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," the picture of "Big Brother" appears constantly in the adoring media.
Perceived enemies are everywhere — supposedly plotting to undo the benevolent egalitarianism of Big Brother. Citizens assemble each morning to scream hatred for two minutes at pictures of the supposed public traitor Emmanuel Goldstein. The "Ministry of Truth" swears that the former official Goldstein is responsible for everything that goes wrong in Oceania.
In Orwell's Oceania, there is a compliant media that offers "Newspeak" — recycled government bulletins from the Ministry of Truth. "Doublethink" means you can believe at the same time in two opposite beliefs.
America is not Oceania, but some of this is beginning to sound a little too familiar.
We see Barack Obama's smile broadcast 24/7, in a fashion we have not seen previously of earlier presidents. A Newsweek editor referred to Obama as a "god." MSNBC's Chris Matthews claimed physical ecstasy when Obama speaks. A Washington Post reporter swooned over Obama's "chiseled pectorals."
Former President George W. Bush — our new Emmanuel Goldstein — remains a daily target of criticism. Diplomats continue to discuss the need to hit a "reset" button that will erase the past. Last week, the president said those in the past administration caused our present problems — and so should keep quiet and get out of his way.
Bush is somehow culpable for the newly projected $2 trillion annual deficits. Bush caused the new unemployment levels to soar to nearly 10%. Bush's war on terrorism failed. Bush is responsible for the most recent trouble abroad with Iran, the Middle East, North Korea and Russia.
There are similar Big Brother attacks on recent critics of the Obama administration's health care initiatives. Once-praised dissent has become subversive. Protesters are a mob to be ridiculed by the government as mere health-insurance puppets.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is suspicious of the nice clothes the protesters wear. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi used a few isolated incidents to claim that the health care dissidents were "carrying swastikas and symbols like that" to compare Obama and Democrats to the Nazis.
At a meeting with Democratic senators, Obama's deputy chief of staff, Jim Messina, urged them to "punch back twice as hard" against these critics, according to two people who were in the room.
An official presidential Web site now asks informants, in Big Brother style, to send in e-mails and Internet addresses that seem "fishy" in questioning the White House health care plans.
Doublethink is common. Presidential sermons on fiscal responsibility tip us off that deficits will soar. Borrowing an additional trillion dollars to manage health care is sold as a cost-saving measure. Racial transcendence translates into more racial identity politics, reflected both in rhetoric and presidential appointments.
The government wants to determine how some executives should be paid. The administration assures millions of citizens it will now intrude into everything from buying homes and cars to how they go to the doctor.
If some Americans choose to purchase a roomy gas-guzzler rather than an uncomfortable but more efficient compact car, a kindly Big Brother will now "correct" that bad decision and buy the "clunker" back.
If we bought a house for too much money, the government will assure it was not our fault and redo the mortgage. If our doctor wants to conduct a procedure, a government health board will first determine whether it is cost-effective and in the collective interest.
Despite the absence of another 9/11-like attack, we are still told by the new terrorism czar, John Brennan, that the old war was largely a Bush failure. Administration officials keep inventing euphemisms. Some have dubbed the war on terror "an overseas contingency operation."
We were once told that military tribunals, renditions, the Patriot Act and Predator drone attacks in Pakistan were George Bush's assault on the Constitution rather than necessary tools to fight radical Islamic terrorists.
Not now. These policies are no longer criticized — even though they still operate more or less as they did under Bush. Guantanamo is still open, but no longer considered a gulag. The once-terrible war in Iraq disappeared off the front pages around late January of this year.
George Orwell, a man of the left, warned us that freedom and truth are not just endangered by easily identifiable goose-stepping goons in jackboots. More often he felt that state collectivism would come from an all-powerful government — run by a charismatic egalitarian, promising to protect us from selfish, greedy reactionaries.
Orwell was on to something.
Your points are spot on as the Brits would say.
Rich doesn't want you to point out the terrible facts about his boy's administration since they are starting to get their brains beat in. So instead you need to blog as if you were in the movie Bull Durham.
Terry doesn't want to talk about his boy's facist tendecies at all.
These guys that are at the controls of our great country are in danger of screwing things up so badly for our future generations that the US could become a second rate power.
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