Obama's fear-mongering - Los Angeles Times
The president and his aides say they don't want to waste a crisis. That's a cynical way to exploit a national emergency.
Jonah Goldberg
March 10, 2009Imagine a child falls down a well. Now imagine I offer to lend the parents my ladder to save her, but only if they promise to paint my house. Would you applaud me for not letting a crisis go to waste? Or would you think I'm a jerk?
I ask because I'm trying to come to terms with Rule No. 1 of the Obama administration.
"Rule 1: Never allow a crisis to go to waste," White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told the New York Times right after the election. "They are opportunities to do big things." Over the weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told members of the European Parliament, "Never waste a good crisis." Then President Obama explained in his Saturday radio and Internet address that there is "great opportunity in the midst of" the "great crisis" befalling America.
Posts
2 comments:
Like the Bush Administration and the terrorism? This stuff is standard political fare.
Of course it is. Republicans use crises to warrant increased defense spending. Democrats scare people into socialism. That's why we the people switch parties every so often. Keeps the pendulum swinging back and forth every so often.
Only problem is, it never swings in the direction of lower spending. Thus, no matter hiow rosy the projections, Obama's projected budgets will have us in deficits greater than any record W. set in EACH of the next 10 years.
Financially, we are DEAD!
Post a Comment