Posted by
Katy Grimes on Thursday, April 23, 2009 5:30:55 PM
Am I missing something? Why do liberals think socialism is Nirvana when they too will be taxed up to their earlobes? Or am I missing out on the vast left wing conspiracy where only the right is taxed?
In a Time magazine cover article today, Democratic party hack Joe Klein writes "But now Obama went further, using a parable from the Sermon on the Mount — the need for a house built on rock rather than on sand — to describe a future that was nothing less than an overhaul of the nature of American capitalism."
Capitalism. Sssssssss. Such a dirty word.
Klein continues his Ode To Obama: "His house built on rock had five pillars — new rules for Wall Street, new initiatives in education, alternative energy and health care, and eventually budget savings that would bring down the national debt — which did sound a bit prosaic. Democratic politicians have been promising one or another, if not all, of the above since Franklin Roosevelt reinvented American government in the 1930s."
Liberals unadulterated love for FDR and now Obama only proves my case that they don't know their history or are hell-bent on rewriting it. Mark Levin, scholar and author of Liberty and Tyranny described FDR's presidency as "breaching the constitution's firewalls," "exceeding limits of federal constitutional authority," "violating state sovereignty and private property rights."
President Obama is demonstrating his disdain for America as he breachs the constitution's firewalls just as FDR did. Another New Deal with more federal projects, taxes, expanded entitlements and gross regulations that are shaping up to end liberty in America as we know it. The New Deal broke us away from the founding principles of America as well as the constitutional limitations.
Obama and the Democrat congress, together with the screamingly liberal media have the insatible appetite of a tomato worm for control and power. Yet most individuals still apprecate the focus of the Founding Fathers and their principles. Regardless of our suspicions about this government takeover, we now feel as if we are watching it in slow motion - except it's happening a blinding speed. And as Levin puts it, "liberty once lost is rarely recovered."
So what do we do?
Conservatism is the the only anti-venom... a return to founding principles of a "Free people living in a civil society, working in self-interested cooperation, and a government operating within the limits of its authority..." Levin describes Conservatism as the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles."
Contrast Levin's word to Joe Klein's: "The legislative achievements have been stupendous — the $789 billion stimulus bill, the budget plan that is still being hammered out (and may, ultimately, include the next landmark safety-net program, universal health insurance). There has also been a cascade of new policies to address the financial crisis — massive interventions in the housing and credit markets, a market-based plan to buy the toxic assets that many banks have on their books, a plan to bail out the auto industry and a strict new regulatory regime proposed for Wall Street. Obama has also completely overhauled foreign policy, from
Cuba to
Afghanistan. "In a way, Obama's 100 days is even more dramatic than Roosevelt's," says Elaine Kamarck of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Roosevelt only had to deal with a domestic crisis. Obama has had to overhaul foreign policy as well, including two wars. And that's really the secret of why this has seemed so spectacular.
To be sure, the historic unpopularity of the Bush Administration has been a convenient foil for Obama. He has also been lucky in his enemies, a reeling Republican Party that lurches from gimmicks to hissy fits, including frequent, unbidden appearances by such unpopular characters as Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich, whose rants about everything from Obama's decision to repudiate the torture of enemy combatants to his handshake with Chávez seem both ungracious and unhinged."
Do we even live in the same America?