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Friday, March 6, 2009 12:00 AM

Obama's timid liberalism

Once, even Republican presidents like Eisenhower and Nixon believed in the public sector. Now, during a national crisis, a Democrat opts for inadequate, neoliberal, private-sector remedies. What happened?

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Saturday, March 7, 2009 10:55 PM

@Trainman -- Why must we conveniently forget Dems two years

of royal fuck-ups that were supposed to be the answer to all the problems created by Republicans? Huh, huh? Hope you have no money in the "gyrating" stock market.

Sunday, March 8, 2009 07:29 AM

Lind: You're delusional

......just because someone at the Burch society apparently called Eisenhower a socialist for using federal tax dollars to build public highways......doesn't make the claim correct. You know darn well that it's not socialism to build roads from tax dollars.

If you have enough brain cells, you know that before Obama, we were already taxing and spending close to 40% of GDP with half from federal and half from state/local. We are at a TIPPING point. Obama is already increasing the federal 20%.......and apparently, you want more and more yourself to be spent for "public" purposes.

Going more towards the "left" is going to be our undoing, and you should know it if you do any analysis or research.

By the way, the Manhattan project was military-oriented, and yes it eventually led to terrific nuclear power production, but the Leftists have decided that it's not safe enough. France has 100 nuke plants, we have 100. We should have 500. But the new idiot-in-chief of the Energy Dept, Steve Chu, a hand-picked nutcase from California, has decided that the safest place in the world for reactor waste, Yucca Flats, NV, is not safe enough.

Lind, we are toast with the degree of "Leftism" we already have, and it's lurching even more Leftwards towards Socialism. Hang onto your wallet and pray for jobs for your children so that they can lead a good life AND pay your socia security benefit/medicare.

Sunday, March 8, 2009 08:36 AM

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Sunday, March 8, 2009 04:42 PM

The Nation Needs a Benign Despot

The Nation Needs a Benign Despot

Enough! It is Sunday and Deeply watches Meet The Press with Deep Disgust. Yes we have the woman economist of sorts, the bloated Republican, the liberal businessman, and the writer expert. And David Gregory playing Ichabod Crane. The scene brings back memories of that advanced placement high school seminar or that college class where all the half-brights felt compelled to speak.

We are not going to solve our financial problems by consensus or big meetings. We will go nowhere slowly, and all things will continue to deteriorate, as our jobs depart and our credit markets freeze solid. We will be that top spinning of its axis, inexplicably gaining speed.

Good or bad, the most brilliant, the least brilliant, Democrat or Republican, it does not matter. We elected Obama, and the only thing we should do is encourage him to go for it. Quit with consensus, quit with making everyone happy, quit with the meetings unless the are informative to him.

Our nation's approach to our economic storm reminds Deeply of some sailboat races he has been on, where first we went West, and then we went East, and then we went backwards at the whim of too many mates. Needless to say we did not win that race.

And our current economic race is one we must win.

For the moment, and four the next four years we have Obama...shut up America unless you are providing information. Let our new President try to solve the many problems without any flack. The last thing Obama needs is more econo-babble opinions.

As for the Republicans, just write them off as irrelevant. Let them filibuster. They had their chance. Someday they can elect another George W Bush after the nation rights itself. Or worse, elect another charismatic asshole like Ronald Regan who thinks government is the problem, not the solution.

Funny, conservatives once liked Kings. King Obama, well perhaps for the moment it would be a good thing.

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