Posted by
Patrick Henry on Friday, February 19, 2010 12:40:50 PM
Just when you thought partisan attacks had reached the ultimate zenith of rank stupidity,
Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi step to the microphone and plumb new depths of partisan
illogic and malicious misinformation.
Both of the foregoing, within the last forty-eight hours, have launched withering attacks
on Republicans, calling them hypocites for saying, on the one hand, that they oppose the
stimulus boondoggle, while on the other accepting stimulus money for their states. Such
moronic whining ignores two very large political realities.
One is that the stimulus bill, for bettr or, as Republicans and Independents think, for
worse, has already passed. One can analyze why the milk was spilled or decry the fact
that it was intentionally dumped, but one cannot unspill the milk. Since the stimulus was
a largely unproductive and mostly Democratic flail at fixing a sinking economy, they
have to take either blame or credit, whichever is due. Bottom line: you can't blame the
stimulus or its mismanagement on Republicans.
Two, do Pelosi and Obama seriously think that having lost the battle to defeat the
stimulus, Republican governors are simply going to stand by and pout while Democrats
turn it into an $862B private slush fund with which to reward blue states, Democratic
governors and their own supporters? Like the stimulus or not, the money appropriated
belongs to all Americans, both Republican and Democrat, and all states, blue or red. The
notion that if you didn't support it you can't have any of it is juvenile, churlish, partisan
and plain wring -- just like Obama and Pelosi.
But their comments set in stark relief their presupposition that American taxpayer money
belongs exclusively to them, to spend as they please. Preceding the vast entitlement society
they are bent on creating is their own presupposed entitlement. Now Obama is readying a
healthcare reform bill, again behind closed doors. He plans to pass it with fifty-one senatorial
votes, excluding both Republicans and the will of the American public. No doubt he will
justify it with more, "You rubes shut up, we know what's best fo you" rhetoric. Impeachment
is too good for him. Being a one-term disgrace will have to suffice.