The change Obama has been offering is not the change Americans have been hoping for
Way back in 2008, as the Dark Age in America was nearing its end, a certain Democrat from a place called with the mantra of Hope had also (unwittingly perhaps?) stumbled on the one word that struck a chord with many, if not most, Americans: ”Change.”
Americans wanted change. They saw an inept federal government unable to with an Administration with, to paraphrase conservative publication, a competence problem. Its representatives had troubles defending itself, with the then-president himself only occasionally able to articulate its goals in terms that resonated with the American people. They, in turn, saw budget deficits in the hundreds of billions of dollars with successive Congresses (of both political parties) unwilling to hold the line on federal spending.
And this Democrat picked up on the (then-apparently) free-spending ways of Washington Republicans (forgetting of course that it was his party, indeed a congressional majority of which he was part that increased the deficits which started declining in the middle of the dread W years). In the campaign, the Democrat sensing that the change America wanted wasn’t the change he has pushing throughout his academic and political career, inveighed that we’d been “living beyond our means” and promised a “net spending cut”. In his pre-election infomercial, he promised to “pay for his new spending plans with even bigger spending cuts.”
Once n that agent of change became president, he did indeed change the way things were being done. He accelerated the increases in federal spending (that had ticked up in the Bush Administration) and expanded the size and scope of the federal government. At the same time, polls began showing (increasingly so as his days in office lengthened) that the popular mood more closely resembled the rhetoric of fiscal restraint he offered in the campaign than the legislative initiatives he championed once in office.
Yes, people want change in America, but not the kind of change President Obama and congressional Democrats have been offering. We want smaller government not bigger. We want more freedom and less redistribution. We don’t want the government spreading the wealth around, we want fewer restrictions on private activity so that private enterprises can generate wealth and opportunities.
With almost every policy proposed or law enacted since the early days of this Administration, we have gotten change all right, but not the changes the American people wanted. Indeed, the changes foisted upon us are very much at odds with those a majority of us (in some cases a super majority) had been hoping for.
–B. Daniel Blatt
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This has been the most detached President I have ever seen. I do not know anything about his belief system that is backed up by anything he has articulated.
He came into the Oval Office as the Community Organizer in Chief. It is the swarm of the almost faceless politburo that has created the legislation, set the agenda, run the interference, and called the shots.
Meanwhile, Obama trots out on a continuous campaign with teleprompter loaded and at the ready. I do not really know whether he is a puppet or the willing public face of the regime. I do not think he is in charge in the sense that he even cares to make an executive decision.
He does not coordinate or lead. Anything that requires cause and effect analysis he dawdles around and votes “present” if pushed. The oil leak, Afghanistan, the economy, unemployment, government bailouts, etc. are all inconveniences to his suave master of ceremonies persona and annoying interruptions to his social and recreation calendar.
Robert Gibbs could not last a week as spokesman for the Amos ‘n Andy Taxi Company. But he blathers on and keeps his job, because he is no more than this regime’s Baghdad Bob. Gibbs is actively waiting for Godot in the theater of his mind and the swarm of the faceless politburo is totally satisfied that he be the face of the regime. He is never corrected, over ruled or spoken over. He is the court eunuch. So Obama weaves and dodges and Gibbs prattles on about the moves.
The only game plan that fits what we are witnessing is Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals which most bloggers have not read and the MSM totally ignores. (Here I set myself for Godwin’s Law, but so be it: Think Mein Kampf.)
The regime has let the radical Democrat Congress run wild in the legislative and extra-Constitutional streets. The cost to be borne will be carried entirely by Democrats in the House and Senate. Meanwhile, the swarm of faceless politburo Czars and the bureaucrat implants will write endless regulations the Obama will quietly sign as rights and freedoms are stripped away.
Executive power has grown by leaps and bounds since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. It has grown enormously since then, but only FDR used it as a jackhammer. The Obama regime has used executive power to all but ignored the legislative and judicial branches. They only need to establish a national police force to finish their take over of the Constitutional form of government.
Meanwhile, the political class in both parties is still trying to keep their jobs and dedicated to smoothing over “differences” and trying to find the middle road.
Comment by heliotrope — July 26, 2010 @ 7:19 pm - July 26, 2010