Posted by
ParallaxAdHoc on Monday, May 11, 2009 3:37:38 AM
"Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America."—Barack Hussein Obama Inaugural Address, 20-Jan-09.
“He is subtle and likes to kill softly. As such, he is something new on the political scene, which means he will require something new from his opponents, including, first, patience.”
--Peggy Noonan at http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html
Based on what has been exhibited so far: the parade of tax cheats proposed into the upper echelons of the administrative functionaries, an attempt to nationalize the economy by taking over bad debts, appointing czars of various shades from car manufacturing to government efficiency and resizing of the ‘middle class’, every American of all shades and sorts of persuasion should be apprehensive respecting what America is being remade into.
It appears that the celebrated architect of Brooklyn aphorisms, Yogi Berra, was correct when he opined that the more things change the more they seem to remain the same. For one thing, the prevalence of Clinton era rethreads amongst the Obama appointments does invoke the feeling of “déjà vu all over again.” It just seems so proper and fitting that tax cheats become the characteristic attributes of Obama appointments.
What does not seem proper is that Republicans in Capitol Hill do not find it incumbent on themselves to make an issue of it. It was supposed to be the function of the minority party to be scandalized by lapses of judgment committed by the ruling party. When there is hardly any sign of protest, the American public ought to be scandalized. As Bob Dole once asked, “where is the outrage”?
We should all be outraged that the Obama Administration is implementing the Europeanization of America. We once took pride in being known as the New World. There is no pride to take in becoming the New Europe.
There is nothing subtle about how the government is buying up the private sector. There is no denying that billions of TARP dollars have gone down the drain and there is nobody to account for in an administration that does not exhibit any need to account for anything. With a filibuster proof Senate and Republicans seemingly devoid of any ideas on what the country is all about, who is going to make the Obama administration account for anything?
When journalism had succumb to the Bush Derangment Syndrome, the nation lost a very valuable asset, namely a press corps whose reason for being is to be the fiscalizer of public policy. Now we have a press corps which acts as the propaganda arm of the Obama Administration. Instead of uncovering hidden agenda in whatever the government is doing, it strives to cover up and gloss over any unpleasant implications of administration policy.
What with the Republican brainstorm taking the Hillary Clinton playbook of a listening tour in order to get ideas on how to lead? They are not even embarrassed about it. Republicans seem to have forgotten that there are such things as first principles of governance. The Republic was founded on the principle that unleashing the creative powers of the individual is what opens the floodgates of productivity to bring about the unbridled creation of wealth.
It has been accepted wisdom that elections have consequences. Liberal presidents appoint liberal judges. A liberal congress rubber stamps a liberal president. But where did Obama get his mandate for Remaking America? An electoral victory cannot be construed as a constitutional amendment.
At which point does Remaking America come into conflict with the oath to “preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God”?
Asumen Acumen at http://parallaxadhoc.blogtownhall.com/