R.I.P.
Obama Presidency
Jan. 2009-June 2010
The obituary of the Obama presidency will read like the the most expensive tomb to the memory of a man and a movement that finally convinced the people of the United States to stop trusting experts and self appointed demagogues and to finally just roll up their sleeves and be part of this thing called democracy.
It has been often said that bad men prosper when good men do nothing. As Mark Steyn has characterized it so well, this administration was "a cult of radical grandiose narcissism," a plain old bad mistake of the first order. As people begin to jump ship and the tenuous order of the current White House turns to ruin, look to two things: first, hope that the rest of this year is relatively stable and does not afford Obama the opportunity to seize any more crises; and second, hope that the election in November brings us somewhat of our own "hung parliament" so that the current administration is rendered completely lame duck. This would give us all the peace of knowing that we could look to the future and plan to repair the damage done in this first eighteen months of Obama's reign of error.
Remember that when you elect the most liberal member of the Senate to the Presidency, you will indeed get the most liberal President ever to sit in the Oval office. Just as when a cancer patient is brought to the brink of death to kill his tumors, America has undergone a radical cure that is really much worse than the original disease which was liberalism itself. We must quickly abandon that unconstrained vision that Thomas Sowell warned us about and go back to a constrained one that hopes for the future but handles the present with wisdom and true moral courage. Or I could say it this way: we're in for a rough ride, so strap in and hang on!
It has been often said that bad men prosper when good men do nothing. As Mark Steyn has characterized it so well, this administration was "a cult of radical grandiose narcissism," a plain old bad mistake of the first order. As people begin to jump ship and the tenuous order of the current White House turns to ruin, look to two things: first, hope that the rest of this year is relatively stable and does not afford Obama the opportunity to seize any more crises; and second, hope that the election in November brings us somewhat of our own "hung parliament" so that the current administration is rendered completely lame duck. This would give us all the peace of knowing that we could look to the future and plan to repair the damage done in this first eighteen months of Obama's reign of error.
Remember that when you elect the most liberal member of the Senate to the Presidency, you will indeed get the most liberal President ever to sit in the Oval office. Just as when a cancer patient is brought to the brink of death to kill his tumors, America has undergone a radical cure that is really much worse than the original disease which was liberalism itself. We must quickly abandon that unconstrained vision that Thomas Sowell warned us about and go back to a constrained one that hopes for the future but handles the present with wisdom and true moral courage. Or I could say it this way: we're in for a rough ride, so strap in and hang on!
Great post, Cliff. As to your hopes: There is no chance that they will govern without creating crises. Creating crises is as essential to their effort to manipulate the governing process, as air is to our process of breathing.
ReplyDeleteI hope the second hope will be realized in November; but if it does, look for them to pass cap and trade or some other pet project between November and January, when the new Congress will be seated. They will realize that it is their last chance to change America.