The Irrational Rationalization
Peter Beinart might just have the world’s worst-ever case of Obama Delusion. Read the lead from his latest Daily Beast column:
Yes, the Democrats are going to get throttled this fall. But Obama has had so much success that he can afford spending a little time playing defense.
Did you throw up a little? Read a little more:
It’s a strange moment in Washington. With the stimulus bill and health-care reform now law, and serious financial regulation gaining momentum, Democrats are witnessing the greatest run of policy success of my lifetime. The victories have been so large that I suspect some liberal wonks are actually having trouble adjusting.
The non-stimulating stimulus, which has left us no better off and a trillion dollars more in debt. A health-care package that drastically increases entitlements while doing nothing to contain costs — except for “future” cuts to Medicare payments for seniors, which of course will never happen. A crony-capitalist financial reform bill which opens the Federal spigots for the big Wall Street players and effectively shuts the little guys out of competing.
And — oh, yeah — trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see. Before the costs of putting ever-increasing chunks of population on Medicaid and paying off bankers and brokers to act ever-more recklessly.
That’s success?
Peter Beinart, call your shrink. But pay his bill your own damn self.
I guess it just depends on your perspective of things. Last report show the stim.kept two million people employed . Those people do not count in your mind. The health bill keeps health care companies from turning people down for pre existing conditions. Some included domestic violence victims. Those women shold have known better and I guess do not deserve health coverage. The current fiantial reform that will keep us from other bail outs is the opposite of what you profess. It creates a way to take apart to big to fail and makes banks hedge their own risks with the 50 mil. I guess we should stick with the status quo because that was working so well.
Care to provide some links to those wild-and-wooly claims? “Saved” two million jobs? Really? The administration claimed if they didn’t get the stimulus package, unemployment would go up over 8%. But if they got it, it would stay under 7%. Gee, how’d that work out?
And this bullshit about turning away domestic violence victims is just that–bullshit. That was debunked severely and repeatedly when the Dems tried to pass that lie around last year. Even my brother-in-law, who is an Obama fanatic, works as a nurse in the emergency room, and wildly supports ObamaCare, was upset at that lie.
And the financial reform package is just another round of crony-capitalism. “Too big to fail” my ass. Let’m collapse. We’re now dealing with the inescapable consequences of moral hazard. Look the term up. You might learn something beyond your 7th grade education.
Arguing economics is for big boys. You need to grow out of your Spidey underwear before engaging.
Success for the libs is measured by the growth of government. They have no interest in whether the legislation they pass actually accomplishes its stated goals, as long as more people become dependent on government and, by that, become voters for the Democrat party.
Actually, they do — but it’s a negative interest. Solving the problems that get the elected leaves them with nothing to whine about when they’re up for re-election.
I’m glad brian n has set me straight about how wonderful everything is with Obama in charge.
Steve,
You must be doing something right. You’re getting some real winners now. The A team knows better than to try to refute what you’re saying, so they’re sending in the scrubs as cannon fodder.
Old Pete wrote that with our entertainment in mind. Or he’s found a source of very pure LSD. I believe he was last seen humming “mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmm.”
I’ve always appreciated Beinart’s writings on what liberalism should be, which makes it such a head scratcher how out of touch he is with liberalism as it actually exists today.