Posted by
Patrick Henry on Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:20:17 AM
American voters are odd birds. They vote for a guy with no experience because they're mad at a guy who can't run again. They cling to the promises they want to hear, and then carp when the guy they put in office does the very things he promised to do. Go figure.
Yesterday, I watched three couples being interviewed. They now owed more on their houses than the houses were worth, were middle income families, had struggled to keep their mortgages current and were expressing outrage that their neighbors, whose circumstances were similar except that they had not paid their mortgages, were now in line to get government help, while they were on the outside looking in. In each case, both husband and wife had voted for Barack Obama.
A Democrat who is a friend of mine was complaining the other day that his piece of the stimulus was going to amount to about $13 dollars a week, and people who paid no taxes at all were also getting "rebates," a euphemism for "welfare check" since one can't be "rebated" what they never paid.. Another, a big-time former Clinton backer, was griping that in one sweeping move Obama had rolled back the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 and that America was back to supporting illegitimacy and indolence once again.
Another friend, a Catholic who voted for Obama, was wringing her hands over Obama's decision to reinstate federal funding for organizations that perform abortions overseas, noted the papal and American bishops' condemnation of Obama's stand on abortion and seemed alarmed that the Democratic congress might strip away existing prohibitions against domestic abortion. Buyer's remorse?
Where were all these whiners when the Messiah was promising to "spread the wealth around," "help out" those who needed it, practice some "redistribution" and proudly sign the "Freedom of Choice Act?" How could they be so dumb as not to understand that the "wealth" he planned to "spread around." was theirs, that the "help" he promised the needy was welfare all over again, or that the "it's above my pay gade" cop-out was code for the fact that the man is an all-out, no holds barred abortionist? Somebody must have been sprinkling dumb powder in the drinking water!
Are we so ill-educated that we can't grasp the notion that a trillion dollar stimulus package, by the time it trickles down to all the millions of us, doesn't amount to hill of beans, but that where it does make an inter-generational impact is at the governmental level where the runaway borrowing necessary to support it mortgages the entire nation's future? Are we so naive that we thought the "stimulus package" hyped to save us from impending crisis, didn't include payoffs for the unions, the environmentalists, the healthcare socialists, ACORN and the others who helped sweep Obama into power? Were we so foolish that we blindly believed Obama's stern pronouncement, later branded as absolutely false by at least two fact-checking organizations, that "there are no earmarks in this bill?" Maybe I.Q.s have dropped sharply in the last several years, or maybe it's just that a war weary nation teetering on the verge of economic collapse is like the thirsty pilgrims in the desert lining up to drink the sands.
Barack Obama has opportunistically seized upon the economic crisis to enact the first stage of his socialist agenda at taxpayer expense, and you haven't seen anything yet. In addition, he's doing what Democrats always do by weakening the national defense. He's already waffling on his much ballyhooed commitment to the war in Afghanistan, slashed the Defense Department's budget by 10%, ordered the closing of Guantanamo Bay WITHOUT a plan in place to deal with the murderous detainees there, and dropped charges agains the U.S.S. Cole bomber? So, acting like a true politician, he keeps the promises he made, except now they're on steroids, while breaking the promises to Americans (a strong national defense) that his party has always made and NEVER kept.
If you are surprised by any of this, you've probably been smoking dope. Oh yeah, I forgot, some of Obama's people are making noises about legalizing that, too.