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- - - When they manage to unify the entire House Republican caucus with David Brooks and Peggy Noonan, you know the Democrats have seriously botched something up. And boy, they really have. The more you look at the stimulus bill the clearer it becomes that it is the Congressional Democrats, not the opponents of this bill, who have failed to see that we are in a genuine and exceptional crisis. They're working to use the moment as an opportunity to advance the same agenda they haven't been able to move (with good reason) for a decade and more, and in the process are showing that agenda to be what we always knew it was: a massively wasteful, reckless, profligate, slovenly, higgledy-piggledy mess of interest group troughs and technocratic fantasies devoid of any economic thinking or sense of proportion. In a way, the present crisis really does present an opportunity for the Democrats, as several of their leaders have said. But it's an opportunity to show they are not the caricature their political opponents seek to draw: that they can govern responsibly and rise to a great national challenge. If they show that, given the failures and losses of the Republicans in recent years, they might really cement a durable majority. Instead, they have begun to show that they are exactly the caricature, and worse. The Democrats on the Hill have somehow managed to begin the age of Obama by putting forward their ugliest side first and in a big way. It can't be what Obama wanted, and it sure isn't what the country needs. But it looks like it's what we are going to get. The Democrats will probably pay some political price for the way they have begun things: a price in reduced public openness to their further moves (like their health care reform), and in a reenergized opposition. But the biggest price will be the price we all pay for the wretched excess of this soon-to-be law and others to follow. - - - He describes it far more generously than I would. This bill is a death sentence for the economy, planned from the outset to ensure Democrats can use poverty and despair to increase their power, uncontrollable debt to forestall any attempt to lower taxes, and seize what's left of our liberty, for years to come. In projecting all their tactics on Bush, they effectively moved him in their direction. Now that they have flogged him for that mistake, they are about to show us how the pros really go about breaking the bank and yanking our Constitutional rights out from underneath us. Sad thing is most folks are fine with that. So tonight there gonna party like it's 1984. - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
