Wednesday, March 25, 2009
This Is Just Way Cool!
Do we have ANYONE like this in our government that will stand up and speak out in such forceful terms? Anyone that will cut through the crap? Check it out.
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I think most of the Representatives and Senators speak in this manner every day. They can always step onto the congressional floor and register a speech. C-span covers many of these.
ReplyDeleteIf you are asking if any representatives can publicly chastise the president to his face like this fellow, then no. Situations like this do not occur because while every representative and senator is important and worthy of having their voice heard, we have only one president. Singular head of one-third of our government. When he is in a room, he leads the discussion, and chooses the format.
From a content standpoint what Daniel Hannan is not applicable to Pres. Obama yet. The recession was a certainty by the time he took office. None of his actions precipitated our current economic situation. It is too soon to tell whether his solutions will prove effective.
Perhaps though someone might quote Daniel Hamanan at President Bush and the republican congresses of 2002 and 2004, "other ships used the good years to caulk their hulls, and clear their rigging. In other words, to pay off debt. But you used the good years to raise borrowing yet further. As a consequence of your captaincy our hull is pressed deep into the waterline under the accumulated weight of your debt. ..."
"...and you left us saddled with a cabin-boy as our captain!"
ReplyDeleteMan the lifeboats!
Bent,
ReplyDeleteYou can continue to bring up Bush's mistakes if you like. It doesn't shore up your argument as well as you might think since conservatives are just as pissed about Republican spending during those periods as we are about what's going on now. However, we can compare by degrees and see that spending at the rate Bush's Congress was is far preferable if there must be spending at all, which there doesn't.