The latest from the folks who brought you a “new era of responsibility” and the promise of unprecedented “transparency” in government:
“Behind closed doors and with no cameras present, President Obama signed into law Friday afternoon the bill raising the public debt limit from $12.394 trillion to $14.294 trillion.”
A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talk about real bankruptcy, Senator Dirksen.
More and more, I believe, the burning question with which the Obama administration confronts us is this: Will he and his colleagues damage the country beyond repair before the voters, roused from their dogmatic slumbers, realize what is happening and throw them out? I wish I were more confident that the answer was no.
Considering the scare-quotes around transparency, I assume RK is supporting the President’s call for an open, televised, bipartisan forum on health care.
Anyone who believes that the President wants a meaningful “open, televised, bipartisan forum on health care” is not paying attention.
Mr. Obama believes that he has found a way to divert our attention away from the fact that it’s not the Republicans who are blocking Obamacare; it’s the Democrats who know that they can kiss their collective derrières goodbye if it passes.
Sad that so many of the thoughtful conservatives I admire (RK, Steyn, Hanson) are so pessimistic.
America can yet redeem itself in November, (I guess,) if it will.
President Obama is not ruining the country.
to the extent that ruination is a possibility, it is because entitlements are growing much faster than GDP; and, the left won’t yield on cutbacks, and the right won’t yield on tax increases.