How in the world can anyone buy into all of this nonsense?
I guess there are two kinds of people in the world:
1) "yes we can" screamers. and
2) people who pay taxes.
I love this line from Tucker Carlson:
"And, like the masterful politician he is, Obama sprinkled the speech with enough sweeteners to trigger diabetes:
Massive new spending and deficit reduction at the same time.
Tax cuts for you, tax increases for people you’ve never met.
Peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
The end of cancer.
Again, how can any fool buy into this?
There must be a lot of "yes we can" screamers in the world.
The WSJ has a great editorial this morning:
"Mr. Obama suggested he could finance all of this with a combination of a budget scrubbing plus a tax increase on a mere 2% of American taxpayers.
The President said his staff has already found $2 trillion in spending savings, and we look forward to those details.
As for those 2%, they are a lot poorer than they used to be and in any case there aren't enough of them to come close to paying for Mr. Obama's plans.
Despite the President's protests, the American middle class will eventually be asked to pay far more than they do now." (The President has only begun to expand the government. )
Memo to the "yes we can" screamers: Your taxes are going up!
Or should I say that the parents of the "yes we can" screamers will see their "middle class" taxes go up?
Beyond the speech, Pres BO and serious Democrats may want to check out Obama Needs a 'Not To Do' List By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR:
"Mr. Obama came to office without a conspicuous vision other than "bipartisanship" and a belief in the beneficent influence on America and the world of seeing a black man exercising the powers of the presidency.
He wields his party's shibboleths like one who sees them mainly as levers for delivering the goods.
His ideas about the exercise of politics, in fact, may be accurately reflected in the recent stimulus bill -- in office you supply the wish lists of those who put you there.
His will be a fascinating presidency to watch, not least because of his inexperience, his intellectual agility, and the crisis in which he finds himself.
But his presidency will get really interesting in a year or two, or six months -- whenever he finally realizes that everything he thought he wanted to do is irrelevant.
He'll then have to adapt an agenda for the world as it is, in which many childish things no longer have a place.
And, by the way, he kids himself if he believes he will be allowed, like FDR, to preside over a depression without being politically blamed for it.
The public is different now -- the world is different -- and he will own the "Obama depression" sooner than he thinks."
It won't be pretty. It won't be pretty when the "yes we can" screamers tell their parents that the rock concert will create deficits 3 times larger than those under Pres Bush!
