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Dissecting Leftism — ... education and energy, the commanding heights of post-industrial society. Clever politics, but intellectually dishonest to the core. Health, education and energy -- worthy and weighty as they may be -- are not the cause of our financial collapse. And they are not the cure. The fraudulent claim that they are both cause and cure is the rhetorical device by which an ambitious president intends to enact the most radical agenda of social transformation seen in our lifetime. SOURCE ********************* Obama is just another callous Leftist who does ...
Who’s Being Radical?
The Mahablog —
... But on the other end of the scale, Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post complains that Obama “intends to enact the most radical agenda of social transformation seen in our lifetime.” Oh, and Obama’s health care proposals? “Socialized medicine.” The usual blah blah blah. ...
The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog —
The great non-sequitur.
The Gettysburg Address, with TelePrompters.
Good news: Woman-beater Chris Brown still up for prizes in the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.
Yikes: Tim Geithner has no deputies who can figure out the banking problem, either.
Congressman: "We're living in 'Atlas Shrugged.'"
"But among people I talk to there’s a growing sense of frustration, even panic, over Mr. Obama’s failure to match his words with deeds. The reality is that when it comes to dealing with the banks, the ...
The Great Non Sequitur
The New Editor —
Charles Krauthammer:
... 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.
What's going on? "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," said Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. "This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."
Things. Now ...
The Return of Budget Politics
Weekly Standard Blog —
... near-defeat into a fragile success. Then the collapse of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, drove foreign policy out of the headlines almost entirely. So today's controversies are reminiscent not of the Bush years, but of the Clinton era, when Washington spent its time squabbling over budgets.
And what a budget. No one seems to know what to make of it. Does it "restore balance" and "correct the irresponsible habits of the Bush era"? Or is it the beginning of "the most radical agenda of social transformation seen in our lifetime"? Will ...
HOPING FOR CHANGE? CHANGE THE SUBJECT !
Dr. Sanity —
[Cartoons by Glenn Foden] Let me say this again, because it's important (from the previous post): For the White House to employ an operative whose responsibility is, fundamentally, to direct a political strategy aimed, not at shaping is response to criticism but to take down a single media figure goes well beyond of the pale of an acceptable response. Limbaugh is a private citizen--a celebrity, to be sure, but a private citizen and if the government can go after him, or Rick Santelli, or Joe the Plumber; they can just as easily try to destroy you or me for their political purposes. In, "Narcissism and the Politics ...
Shifting Ground?
The Mahablog —
At Tapscott’s Copy Desk, DC Examiner, we find “Obama is in trouble.”
Did you feel it? The political ground shifting beneath President Barack Obama since his speech last week to Congress? It’s been downhill since and I’m not referring mainly to the Dow Jones record-setting dive. The pivot point of the shift was the speech, or rather what the speech did to the evolving public narrative of Obama.
The “evolving public narrative,” one learns, is going on entirely on right-wing public radio and Faux Nooz. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are on fire, apparently. Further, “a potentially devastating ...
The MJK Universal Health Care Plan
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... A small bridge, just wide enough for one car, lay ahead. She realized, with a horror that rose instantly like a buoy within her heart, that they were headed off the side of the bridge. She screamed as the tires squealed, but it was too late to stop. Rushing through Universal Health Care President Barack Obama suggests that the cure for our economic crisis is a universal health care program , which would provide free care to all individuals using models similar to that developed in the UK and Canada. ...
