Victor Davis Hanson rips into the Obama presidency – and the won:
Voters are sick and tired of a terrible year of big spending and big deficits — especially the sight of Obama and his congressional allies almost daily talking breezily about spending what we do not have.
Voters went for the hope-and-change Obama in part because he promised fiscal sobriety after the Bush $500 billion deficit. Instead, in utterly cynical fashion, Obama trumped that red ink four times over. In the process, he developed a terrible habit of promising favored constituencies a hundred billion here, a hundred billion there as if it were all paper money — rather than real borrowed currency that will have to be confiscated in the future from the beleaguered taxpayer. It only makes it worse that the more the administration borrowed, printed, and spent, the higher unemployment rose and the lower economic activity plummeted.
Most have had enough of pie-in-the-sky talk of massive new health-care entitlements, cap-and-trade taxes and regulation, more stimulus, and more takeovers of private enterprise. The country is broke and the people want to pay off, not incur more, crushing debt. What got us into the mess was too much borrowing, skyrocketing debt, and reckless spending — not too many balanced budgets and too much lean government.
Trust me, that is just a fraction of the stream-of-consciousness slam. It is brutal.
Along the same lines, one Nobel laureate is not at all happy with another Nobel laureate. It seems the won is not THE ONE.
Maybe House Democrats can pull this out, even with a gaping hole in White House leadership. Barney Frank seems to have thought better of his initial defeatism. But I have to say, I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in.
We could talk endlessly about the gaping hole in the Federal budget and the non-existent revenues to fund the insane spending plans of the left – Krugman included.
But that truth would not penetrate.
The One was never more than the won – and he has done a lot of damage in just one year.
Note to Krugman: He never was THE ONE. Just THE HYPE.
Not HOPE.
HYPE.
Obama’s obnoxious attempt to spin Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts as propelled by the same sentiments which brought him to the White House a year earlier is idiotic hogwash and shows he hasn’t learned a thing.
Obama’s victory was based on lies, he deceived the voters about who he was and what he intended to accomplish, Brown’s victory is based on exposing Obama’s lies and overturning Obama’s agenda.
The two victories are the result of opposing forces. Obama’s attempt to equate them is both cynical and dishonest. It’s an insult to the intelligence of everyone who hears it.
For me to comment honestly would pierce the standards of your crabitat,sir.
I am looking forward to the election in the fall.
He started grating on me when he announced his candidacy. With friends like ayers and idols like alinsky, it was a given.