Two contiguous headlines on The Drudge Report:
1. OBAMA: “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of
talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the
mess.” . . .2. US deficit climbs to $1.3 trillion . . .
Now, who are the “folks who created this mess”?
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The Constitution clearly gives the power of the purse, and of legislation, to the Congress. As a member of the Senate when `this mess was created’, isn’t he talking about himself?
Of course he isn’t. Congress long ago abdicated all of its responsibilities. As our host pointed out a while ago, most of the rules in the Federal Register that we must obey as law are the result of executive regulatory bodies. Hard social issues are left for resolution in the Supreme Court. When Congress isn’t sniping that the administration isn’t perfect, or that the people are disappointing, it takes up its time renamimg post offices. Is it surprising that members laugh at being asked to read the bills, or maybe even write the bills, before they pass them? They know that they are a joke.
When the 1964 Civil Rights Bill passed, Humphrey famously offered to eat the bill page by page if it contained any mention of quotas.
Five years later, the only defense an employer had to a complaint by the EEOC of `disparate impact’ was to have a policy of statistical hiring, i.e. quotas. The language of the bill was unimportant, as we are not governed by the rule of law.
A republic, if you can keep it. I guess we couldn’t.
Democrats and their “moderate” Republican allies are mostly responsible for this mess. The heirs of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover believe the economy must be managed by elites who graduated from the “best” schools and know far more than we how to run our lives. Their second best efforts are better than our first. They have thrown money around like the proverbial drunken sailor to their loyal supporters. The stuff has now hit the fan.
You know that Obama and his minions are simply playing the game that’s been around for centuries – probably since man could conjure – and displayed so ingeniously by Machiavelli’s Cesare Borgia – Create a crisis for the nation and then, voila, save the nation from the same crisis. The people will love you for the decisive action, the bold initiatives, and the callous disregard for the nation’s well being as you exclaim, “I saved you! You gotta love me, you gotta! I won! I am the One!”
As Rahm said, “Never let a good crisis (you create) go to waste.” Or something like that.
Among you better bloggers very little has been written about Obama’s position siding with Hugo Chavez to sabotage the democratic proceedings in Honduras removing a Chavez protege from the presidency for treason and other high crimes. If you know very little about the facts of the matter, please look more closely. And then report on what you have discovered. It used to be incumbent to the American psyche to protect and defend legitimate democratic institutions throughout the world rather than to crush them. This president, although he has softened from his original economic sanctions policy, has been a first to actually nest in with a Marxist dictator against a democratic nation, one, incidentally located in our own hemisphere.
Now, who are the “folks who created this mess”?
Must be the Lilliputians or the Yahoos.
I would like someone to answer me as to who created the sub-prime mess. It is my understanding that the Bush admin petitioned Congress to look into it and correct it way back in 2003 and the Dems (Barney and Chris) blocked it. If Obama wasn’t out campaigning after he got to the Senate, maybe he would have noticed. Obviously, he didn’t want to upset all the giveaways to the ones unable to pay their mortgages. Sounds to me that the Dems created the mess as those of you above have implied. Maybe they should shut up and get out of the way.
well, we still live in a democracy. most of us vote for the free lunch party.
In his brief time in both the House and Senate, His ‘O’liness managed to take more money from Fannie Mae than anyone except Chris Dodd.