My good friend Alex pointed me to the latest headline over at the Drudge Report, “GM: Government Motors”. So true, Obama forced out the CEO of a “private” corporation by threatening to withhold more government funds. We are now spending trillions propping up failing businesses and the government is exerting more and more control over private industry. How is this not the socialism I predicted (over and over and over again)?
The people who predicted Obama would govern from the middle got this one dead wrong.
As I read through my Google Reader, past posts about the latest power grabs by Obama and the Democrats in congress, I find myself wearing out the “j” key (the key that takes you to the next article) in an attempt to speed up time and ingore the downward spiral of our great nation. Can we fast forward through the next three years to a time when we can throw out our new socialist “leaders”?
Please tell me when there is some good news out there about the return of true capitalism and the only thing that will reverse our fall: market based reform, lower taxes, smalled government and individual responsibility.
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Tags: GM, Government Motors, individual responsibility, lower taxes, market based reform, Obama, smalled government, Socialism
I’m confused. Why are you upset? This is not nearly as big a power grab as … actually, let me just quote Andrew Sullivan, since he’s a much better writer than I am:
“The remarkable thing about today’s partisan Republicans is their capacity to forget instantly and entirely anything that went on for the past eight years. And so suddenly we are rushing toward socialism, even though by far the biggest jumps in state power and debt occurred under a president they worshiped and worked hard to re-elect. There were no tea-parties to protest the $32 trillion Medicare prescription drug benefit. There was no Randian rumbling as Bush took over local schools. There was no defense of the Constitution as Bush and Cheney secretly suspended the fourth and first amendments. But put a moderate Democrat in office tackling a historic collapse in demand – and spending must be frozen! Reading the partisan right blogs, this ability to disappear the past is striking, and it helps explain base GOP loathing of Obama (even if the base is much smaller than it was). But the broader public, those with eyes and ears and functioning short-term memory, are not so cocooned.”
Honestly, explain this to me. If this is so bad, how is it that you supported Bush so fervently for so long?