How do we get to the next generation if we can’t get through next month?
Charles Krauthammer notices the sleight of hand in the faux State of The Union address:
because “it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament,” Obama has come to redeem us with his far-seeing program of universal, heavily nationalized health care; a cap-and-trade tax on energy; and a major federalization of education with universal access to college as the goal…As an explanation of our current economic difficulties, this is total fantasy. As a cure for rapidly growing joblessness, a massive destruction of wealth, a deepening worldwide recession, this is perhaps the greatest non sequitur ever foisted upon the American people…
the list of causes of the collapse of the financial system does not include the absence of universal health care, let alone of computerized medical records. Nor the absence of an industry-killing cap-and-trade carbon levy. Nor the lack of college graduates…
yet with our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. Four months after winning the election, six weeks after his swearing in, Obama has yet to unveil a plan to deal with the banking crisis.
Krauthammer ascribes devious motives to Obama’s inexplicable failure to deal with the issue that should be Priority #1, #2 and #3 in a sane world. (There’s quite a lot of speculation that there is a malign method to Obama’s madness.) Gee, with both left and right beginning to notice that there’s an elephant in the room that’s being ignored, you’d think there would begin to be some adult supervision in the White House. No sign of it yet, however.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
I have alot of respect generally for Dr. Krauthammer, but he would have served us better by not bending over backward prior to the election to emphasize what he called Obama’s “first-class intellect and first-class temperament.”
Everyone was so goddam afraid of being called racist if they actually criticized the man.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
There’s the beginnings of impeachment talk out there. I suspect that within six months there will be some support for it in Congress. If wiser heads push it along, they might even manage to force him out during his first term. I say that would be a disaster.
Obama’s right. He won. As much as I hate it as an entrepreneur, even my own family members voted for him knowing full well what Obama promised to do to people like me. This fever must be allowed to run its course–Americans must, unfortunately, feel the full measure of the pain that is coming as a result of their actions. They must decide for themselves that Socialism is a dead religion.
Obama must be given plenty of rope and be allowed to hang himself with it. If this experiment is terminated early, “progressives” will never believe the termination was legitimate, and Obama will become a symbol that tears the country apart. There must be no modern-day Brutus, no Marc Antony praising Caesar.
We must grit our teeth and see this through to the bitter end.
(I apologize , I also posted this to comments at the Belmont Club. I think this is important.)
March 7th, 2009 at 12:01 am
You are quite right Dinocrat. No sign of adult supervision at the White House. We have a long row to hoe.