Will Dems go for broke with Obama?

American Thinker ^ | March 19, 2009 | James Lewis

[neverdem]

This is the strangest, scariest political season in a long time. The Obama crowd is going for a Great Leap Forward, with socialized medicine, government ownership of the banks, industry-killing carbon taxes, daily scapegoating of the rich, and now depriving wounded veterans of their VA benefits, along with trillion dollar bailouts just for starters.

They can't seem to stop themselves; the impact of bulging deficits forever and ever doesn't seem to scare them. Printing trillions of dollars is bound to trigger enormous inflation and widespread  impoverishment -- that's what inflation does --  but that doesn't seem to bother them either. Carteresque stagflation is predictable, and even a devaluation of the dollar, as George Soros has been hoping for all along.

SecDef Robert Gates is now making military cut-back noises, but long before they take effect we will be challenged on half a dozen fronts abroad. The news is already being picked up in Moscow, Tehran, Pyongyang, Venezuela, and maybe Beijing. As a direct result, Israel may be challenged much more directly than ever before, and Netanyahu may move to forestall the threat from Tehran preemptively.

All the power-hungry tyrannies around the world can recognize a sucker a mile away, and here we have an administration full of Charles Freemans and Jimmy Carters.  Freeman himself had to quit because he was dumb enough to say his real feeling out loud. His former DCI boss, Dennis Blair, was all in favor of keeping him, and Blair is still running the show.

Nobody objected to Charles Freeman in Obama's alternate universe, did you notice? By their silence ye shall know them.

And don't think the power-hungry tyrants around the world are missing a move. Those emails from their Washington sources are sizzling.

So we are going to see an even worse series of pratfalls and disasters than the Bamster has committed so far. Proof is that he doesn't even get it when he goes Whoops!  on yet another banana peel.  What banana? I don't see any banana!

But the world has eyes.

The fact that Treasury is having trouble staffing its upper 14 appointments below Geithner means that people in the know about Obama's economic policies are running scared.     They don't want to get involved, even if they have hungered after those plum jobs their whole lives. That tells you what the savviest Democrats are thinking.

Even the Europeans are resisting hyper-deficits, because Europe always has that memory of the 1920s and 30s: hyperinflation, unemployment, crushing poverty and despair, followed by Hitler and Stalin. They are refusing to follow Obama down that road. If the dollar crashes, they don't want the euro to go down with it. 

Super-deficits are bad for the country and for the world, but the Obamanites are sleep-walking, hypnotized by an idée fixe, and it's unvarnished socialism. They expect the US to get to socialism in one great leap, guided by the Great One. If it takes even more of a crisis, with real suffering spreading nationwide, so be it. They are ready to see other people go down.

It took Western Europe five decades to get that far down the road to decadence, and they had the US military to protect them while they were doing it. As a result, even today they may not be able to produce a heavy lift military transport aircraft; that's how much they have diverted their resources from self-defense to vote buying.      

But Obama wants to do it, oh, about ten times as fast as Europe did, and steal the money from the Veterans Administration to boot. What Obama contemplates doing to the VA tells us everything we need to know about his plans for socialized medicine. He will take the money wherever he can steal it, whether the US government has made solemn commitments to care for wounded vets or not.

The WaPo's resident liberal guru David Broder is openly running scared, and you can bet that behind the scenes lots of Washington Democrats are having panic attacks. They know you can't turn the country on a dime; either you end up shafting the economy and lose the House in 2010, or you get slapped in the face by Putin or Ahmadinejad and also lose the House in 2010.

The American people still haven't quite figured this guy out, probably because they can't believe their eyes and ears. The saner Left is beginning to worry out loud.  Yes, Nancy the Eternally Youthful really believes she is "saving the Planet," but her House members are seeing their numbers tanking, and they have to start running this year to get re-elected next year.  Harry Reid is one of the nastiest characters in DC, but he is a survivor. Somebody is going to hit the brakes, and then an almighty struggle will break out on the Left.

It will be better for the country if it happens sooner rather than later; but if the Dems are determined to all go down in a Banzai suicide charge, as David Broder has warned out loud, they may bring electoral disaster upon themselves.

When the last great Leftist assault on power took place in the United States, Senator Joe McCarthy became the bearer of bad tidings; he is well-remembered by the contemporary Left as Satan Incarnate, but at the time he was simply saying what everybody knew. Tens of millions of people saw the same danger. One day Uncle Joe Stalin was our good ally in the war against Hitler; the next day Americans were convinced, and rightly so, that he posed the biggest danger after the Nazis. Perhaps the biggest shock to ordinary people was Stalin's first atomic bomb, in 1949.

We are about to experience a very similar shock when Ahmadinejad gets his nukes. Historically, public opinion can turn on a dime if people get scared enough. If the Democrats don't hit the brakes fast, we may see it again.

[Neverforget01]

Will Dems go for broke with Obama?

Moot question. We're already broke.

[DCBurgess58]

Why should they stop? This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for them and they know it. The more crap they shove past the American public as soon as the can (ie... during the “honeymoon”), the greater chance they have of getting away with it. You can’t un-ring a bell... once a program is signed into law, we are stuck with it.

[Eva]

Thanks for posting this, I think. Lewis just voiced my worst fears and it is not very comforting to see them in writing.

[FrogMom]

He’s unringing many of W’s bells, someone can unring BOs.

[smokingfrog]

Everytime the economy/stock market starts to get some legs, they stretch out another trip wire.

Are they just stupid/incompetent, or doing this on purpose?
You decide.

[highlander_UW]

The dems are attempting to push through everything they can before America wakes up to what they're doing. They are counting on the fact that the few liberals who follow news at all gets it from two bit comedians, John Stewart and Bill Mahr as well as the natural inclination to give a newly elected president a little window of time to get his feet on the ground.

[neverdem]

Why should they stop?

Plenty of rats are bailing out on him already.

[SkipW]

Wide spread impoverishment is exactly what Barack Obama wants for America. He believes that American prosperity has been won at the expense of third world countries and he wants to correct get even for all of those failed nations.

It isn’t as though he hasn’t told us what he plans to do. He has. He wrote about it when he was at harvard and referred to the communist dope dealer who was his mentor. He talked about it on the campaign trail when he spoke to Joe the Plumber and then had to demonize the guy because he was afraid that his loose lips might have sunk his Marxist ship.

In a little better than a month he has hit us with everything but the kitchen sink. It is going to get worse too. The tragedy is that the scum bag Republicans are responsible for putting him in the White House.

If there was any justice Obama, his administration and the majority of those lizards in Congress would be in federal prison.

[smoothsailing]

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

Let’s get rid of Michael Steele the Great Disappointment Spokesperson of the Republican Party ............he’s just another wolf in sheeps’ clothing and is easily swayed.He outed himself with his recent opinions.
We need someone who is tough is nails and Steele ain’t it.

[JSteff]

“they may bring electoral disaster upon themselves. “

That is assuming or expecting that over half the citizenry / voters care or are even paying attention. We on FR are an unusual subset of the voters... we pay attention and CARE what is happening.

No one in the carter era really cared. No movements were made to put him under check or toss him out immediately. So does anyone think it will happen to bHo?

Really?

[deannadurbin]

It’s tragic to see so many stupid, duped Americans still thinking Obama is their political messiah. It’s sickening. When I think of all the men and women who gave their lives to fight to protect freedom in this country, and see these Democrats, and some Republicans, kicking those freedoms down the toilet, it’s absolutely heartbreaking. Their sacrifice was in vain if this is what America has become, a welfare state looking for Sugar Daddy to cure all their ills.

[JSteff]

“Moot question. We're already broke. “

That never stopped the U.S. government.

So will they name a submarine after Obama or a new fleet of carriers after him?

[RJL]

The Obama crowd is going for a Great Leap Forward, with socialized medicine, government ownership of the banks, industry-killing carbon taxes, daily scapegoating of the rich, and now depriving wounded veterans of their VA benefits, along with trillion dollar bailouts just for starters.

And sadly, the Republicans have proved themselves impotent even when in power.

Once these things are in place, they will be there until the next revolution.

[ari-freedom]

nobody had the internet in those days and if you wanted a diversified stock portfolio, you had to be a millionaire and use a full service broker.

[Interesting Times]

We are about to experience a very similar shock when Ahmadinejad gets his nukes. Historically, public opinion can turn on a dime if people get scared enough. If the Democrats don't hit the brakes fast, we may see it again.

If Ahmadinejad does get nukes, a significant number of people may not have the opportunity to be scared for more for a microsecond or so.

[JSteff]

You are still supposing that a number of people really are involved or care to the extent you suppose. The statistics show they do not.

The statistics show they did not in the fall of last year or bHo would never have been elected.

Even the statistics show that during the revolutionary war the citizenry supporting our army was terrible.

Congress often had to make side deals for money, food, arms, etc because the citizenry did not support the raising of taxes or spending of more money.

Washington was seen crying alone several times because it looked so grim. Are we better off now than our fledgling movement was then.

Better communication capabilities, less of a will.

[joydocsusie]

Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs

of belonging to the Democratic Party... as they have apparently

learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide

for their care and sustenance.

This photo is of a Democrat black bear in Montana nicknamed . . .

Bearack Obearma.

[joydocsusie]

Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs

of belonging to the Democratic Party... as they have apparently

learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide

for their care and sustenance.

This photo is of a Democrat black bear in Montana nicknamed . . .

Bearack Obearma.