That's a $$$ line right there.
“History tells us where giving government one arbitrary power after another leads. It is like going into a Venus fly-trap, which is easy to enter and nearly impossible to get out of.”
Even if Republicans control both Houses of Congress, Obama could push much of his agenda through. The lame duck session is not the only problem. He could use the bureaucracy, as he did for Cap and Trade by getting carbon dioxide declared a “pollutant” and therefore subject to regulation.
Like a skilled surgeon with a laser scalpel, he cuts right to the essence of the problem.
If I were Grammar School Czar, I would degree that Thomas Sowell be read by every American school child starting in the sixth grade. That's the beauty of him: he writes to adults about abstract adult concepts in economics, but in a way that can reach any intelligent mind of any age.
Thank you Dr. Sowell, and thanks jaz for the ping. Dr. Sowell is so correct.
“We have a strange man in the White House.”
This is such a serious column, from a serious writer. It somehow makes the sentence about a “strange man” rather eerie and foreboding....like there should be some creepy music following the statement.
If legislation can become laws passed without either the public or the Congress knowing what is in those laws, then the fundamental principle of a free, self-governing people is completely undermined.
Some members of Congress who voted for ObamaCare, and who are now telling us that they realize this legislation has flaws which they intend to correct, are missing the point.