The gap between rhetoric and hype in President Barack Obama’s budget is as wide as the Pacific Ocean. Obama has not offered change; he has offered a continuation of George W. Bush’s policies.
Obama is not the anti-Bush. He is Bush on steroids.
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Obama Spending Shocks in Scale, Builds Upon Bush: Kevin Hassett
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Elections have consequences. 52% of us believed what he was selling. Now we all own the consequences.
Anglican Curmudgeon has some great analysis. In particular, Obama has said that the budget would be balanced in a few years. AC’s analysis shows this is very much not the case. He asks the following:
[blockquote] If I, as a private citizen, was able to construct the above graphs in about forty-five minutes by downloading the data from the Office of Management and Budget, then why couldn’t any enterprising reporter in the mainstream media have done so? [/blockquote]
See [url=http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/03/making-bad-much-much-worse.html ]Making the Bad Much, Much Worse [/url].
Read “Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis”, James Simpson. This whole thing has been a set-up to destroy the US. It is based on the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” devised by a couple of radical 60’s professors at Columbia – ie creating political change through orchestrated
Despite the fact that Pelosi, Reid, and Obama are the primary actors in what is now happening, I place the blame on the Republicans…but not perhaps for the reasons you may be thinking.
The idiot leadership of the Republican Party gave us “kinder compassionate conservativism” with Bush 2 and the Party faithful swallowed hard, held their noses, and delivered the vote, only to have their principles abandoned as the Party lurch to the left. In the last election cycle, we were told by the Republican Party leadership that we had to go even further to the left if we wanted to have a chance. Hence, we were offered RINO after RINO for candidates…like Guilliani and Romney and the ultimate “maverick” gang of 14 RINO McCain, that prided himself with working with the Democrats (as Bush 2 worked with Kennedy on education, etc.).
No, the Republican leadership is responsible for the current mess because they pulled hard to the left and abandoned the core of the Party in a grab for the middle-left and a push to become Democrats-Lite.
Until they understand that…until they return to “Jesus Land” and remember they cannot win without “Fly-over Folks”, they will continue to suffer humiliating defeats, and more importantly, the nation will continue to suffer under more and more socialism and the loss of personal liberties. Social conservatives have [b]proven[/b] time after time that they will even vote [i][b]against[/b][/i] their economic interests to secure the blessings of liberty (1st & 2nd Ammendments), oppose the murder of innocent babies, and support traditional marriage. The current Republican leadership initially used that fact to pull to the fiscal left, and later abandoned even that vestage of conservative principles.
We are getting what we deserve. If the Republican Party fails to return to it’s conservative principles in the this election cycle (2010), I believe that we will need to form a new Party. The American people are conservative. They live their lives in a conservative manner. Given the chance to vote for a real conservative, I believe that they will. The Democrats are over-reaching and their hubris makes them vulnerable. Will the Republicans give up the Democrate-Lite strategy? Given the “leadership” of Mr. Steele, time will tell.