Posted on 06/23/2009 2:41:27 AM PDT by Scanian
IMAGINE you are an evil Republican genius, tasked with frustrating liberal goals while Karl Rove is distracted by writing his book. What would be your strategic imperative, and how would you go about effecting it?
The first part of the question is easy: You'd want to defeat the further nationalization of health care. Were a sweeping, government-heavy reform to pass, it would be an irreversible step toward a European-style social democracy.
How to beat back such reform is the harder question. Your tools are limited. The press hates you, and you have frighteningly few votes in Congress. The public scorns your party. The interest groups you usually rely on are cowed and playing ball with President Obama.
There are only two instruments at your disposal -- those age-old wreckers of human ambitions: haste and hubris.
Can your adversary be gulled into slamming through Congress a budget-busting stimulus bill within a month of taking office? A bill that will immediately reignite deficit fears and won't soon -- or ever -- produce its advertised results? And can he be persuaded to follow it up with unpopular, high-profile bailouts costing tens of billions of dollars of companies that may never wean themselves of government support?
Yes, he can -- because he doesn't want "to let a crisis go to waste." In other words, he wants to gorge on as much spending and government intervention as quickly as he can, on the arrogant assumption that everything he does, no matter how hastily conceived (stimulus legislation that barely anyone can read) or intrinsically difficult (running car companies), will work and meet the public's approval.
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Under Obama, reality is an Evil Republican Genius.
Nice.
I will thank the Democrats, however, for waking me up to what *really* has value in this world - and it ain't made of paper!
Excellent read. Congratulations to us evil Republican geniuses. Oboomba already overspent his ‘political capital’ AND our tax dollars. His agenda will be cut off or sharply diminsihed for the remainder of his first and only term.
Worst President Ever
If that IS what the Democrat political elites REALLY WANT, here’s the deal:
NO EXCEPTIONS!!!
No members of Congress or ANYONE in the White House running off to Walter Reed or Bethesda for that nasty ingrown toenail, hacking cough and spitting up blood. Take a number and wait in the same line the rest of us are.
That goes for your congressional and White House children and other family members! GET IN LINE!!!
And if your UNIVERSAL RULES dictate that some life-saving treatment would be too expensive or not be cost-effective for you older members, here’s a twenty – call someone who cares.
Oh yeah – forgot the best part: If ANY of you are found to be availing yourselves of what idiot representative Fortney “Pete” Stark (as in “raving mad) from (where else) KAHLIFONIA once called “Boutique Medicine” (cute, huh?) by bypassing the universal system, not getting that needed treatment will be the least of your problems.
Exactly. Brace yourself.
June 2009:
"Thus far, Obama has only aggravated all of the problems that got him elected. As that reality begins to sink in, the effect will be analogous to suddenly weening someone from a powerful anti-anxiety medication. Psychiatric drugs can have subtle effects. Only when someone discontinues a drug do they realize all it was doing. And Obama was a particularly potent intoxicant. The withdrawal effects will be significant. HERE
January 2008:
"When I say that the Obamanauts are about to enter a world of pain, I mean that they will eventually know the dark side of the wave of fantasy upon which they are riding. Only in this case, it seems unusually dark, for it is the same darkness that currently attaches to President Bush. As much as he is hated, Obama is loved, and for reasons that are equally insane because they are a precise and predictable function of each other. They say that Obama represents the "longings" of a new generation, but I don't believe that at all. Rather, this is baby-boomer 101, the last gasp of a generation that is fueled by a pathological idealism that is just the other side of its dark cynicism." HERE
Well, yeah, I’d ruther be broke than euthanized...
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