Some Week
My pre-election forewarning:
"This country is going down the toilet and the only thing determined by this election will be the velocity of the swirl"...
Welcome to the vortex of unrestrained liberalism....
Wow what a busy week for our new POTUS.
Let's see... re-establish that Democrats are weak on defense and security - - check
Promote a spending spree that would put drunken sailors to shame the world over - - check
Reintroduce government funded abortions - - check.
I guess one man's success is another man's failure. So much for HOPING Obama might govern as a centrist.
I Guess it's the unions and trial lawyers turn next week ...
On the Guantanamo issue I am as much a defender of civil liberties as anyone but reducing it to ideals versus security is a sop to semantics at best, has nothing to do with pragmatism, and everything to do with politics. I get that he needs to throw a bone to the netroots but aren't these the same ones constantly bemoaning American arrogance? Isn't imposing OUR constitutional rights onto unwilling and undeserving foreigners the height of American arrogance?
Meanwhile in the caves of eastern Pakistan Achmed and Abdul are high-fiving and fist-bumping on the news that any consequences to their killing Americans will result in kid glove treatment. Somehow I feel a little less safe than last week.
From someone who has yet to face the ticking time bomb scenario this, apparently, is President Obamas notion of "securing our ideals". Call me crazy but ideals don't amount to much if your dead. Bottom line is, Bush, with legions of constitutional law advisers too by the way, actually made the tough call, and without an alternative plan ready to go Obama reversed it.
Apparently the thinking here is that George Bush was so wrong about this policy that undoing it precipitously is justified despite the increased risk to Americans. I, unlike many on the other side, will give him the benefit of the doubt, but even still I really don't see how or who this helps, except terrorists. Whether it continues or shortens the seven year attack-free stretch we have enjoyed remains to be seen. But there is one undeniable fact, Bush's policy worked. That the genius community organizer nixed it without an alternative plan is no doubt a change, but it sure as hell doesn't inspire hope. Letting your guard down in a fight never makes sense. What do I know, maybe his subliminal message is to kill the Islamowackjobs in the field. I'm down with that, but somehow I doubt that's the intent. Besides, that would be too, you know, Bushy.
As to the stimulus plan... if this collection of ad hoc financial wizards can't grasp the fact that runaway spending was a key cause to this mess, and insists on fixing it with more runaway spending, they will indeed pull off a feat of Rooseveltian proportion - -successfully turning a deep recession into a great depression.
Spending more to cure a financial crisis is like drinking more too cure alcoholism, both only delay inevitable systemic failure.
The abortion thing. As a pro-choice conservative I have been duped and marginalized. The condition of my position is that so long as the government remains uninvolved and the choice is strictly between a women and her Doctor it is not ideal but tolerable. Now the government involves itself by paying for abortions with my tax money. That is not OK and removes the neutrality by making all taxpayers pro-abortion. Roe v. Wade does not provide that we all fund abortion. This effectively spreads the blood on the hands of abortion providers and recipients to all of us. This will not sit well with the right, or moderates like me, and it shouldn't. I give him political kudos for making this move now when his political capital is so high but he has done more to galvanize social conservatives than John MCain has all year long. That's change too I suppose.
"This country is going down the toilet and the only thing determined by this election will be the velocity of the swirl"...
Welcome to the vortex of unrestrained liberalism....
Wow what a busy week for our new POTUS.
Let's see... re-establish that Democrats are weak on defense and security - - check
Promote a spending spree that would put drunken sailors to shame the world over - - check
Reintroduce government funded abortions - - check.
I guess one man's success is another man's failure. So much for HOPING Obama might govern as a centrist.
I Guess it's the unions and trial lawyers turn next week ...
On the Guantanamo issue I am as much a defender of civil liberties as anyone but reducing it to ideals versus security is a sop to semantics at best, has nothing to do with pragmatism, and everything to do with politics. I get that he needs to throw a bone to the netroots but aren't these the same ones constantly bemoaning American arrogance? Isn't imposing OUR constitutional rights onto unwilling and undeserving foreigners the height of American arrogance?
Meanwhile in the caves of eastern Pakistan Achmed and Abdul are high-fiving and fist-bumping on the news that any consequences to their killing Americans will result in kid glove treatment. Somehow I feel a little less safe than last week.
From someone who has yet to face the ticking time bomb scenario this, apparently, is President Obamas notion of "securing our ideals". Call me crazy but ideals don't amount to much if your dead. Bottom line is, Bush, with legions of constitutional law advisers too by the way, actually made the tough call, and without an alternative plan ready to go Obama reversed it.
Apparently the thinking here is that George Bush was so wrong about this policy that undoing it precipitously is justified despite the increased risk to Americans. I, unlike many on the other side, will give him the benefit of the doubt, but even still I really don't see how or who this helps, except terrorists. Whether it continues or shortens the seven year attack-free stretch we have enjoyed remains to be seen. But there is one undeniable fact, Bush's policy worked. That the genius community organizer nixed it without an alternative plan is no doubt a change, but it sure as hell doesn't inspire hope. Letting your guard down in a fight never makes sense. What do I know, maybe his subliminal message is to kill the Islamowackjobs in the field. I'm down with that, but somehow I doubt that's the intent. Besides, that would be too, you know, Bushy.
As to the stimulus plan... if this collection of ad hoc financial wizards can't grasp the fact that runaway spending was a key cause to this mess, and insists on fixing it with more runaway spending, they will indeed pull off a feat of Rooseveltian proportion - -successfully turning a deep recession into a great depression.
Spending more to cure a financial crisis is like drinking more too cure alcoholism, both only delay inevitable systemic failure.
The abortion thing. As a pro-choice conservative I have been duped and marginalized. The condition of my position is that so long as the government remains uninvolved and the choice is strictly between a women and her Doctor it is not ideal but tolerable. Now the government involves itself by paying for abortions with my tax money. That is not OK and removes the neutrality by making all taxpayers pro-abortion. Roe v. Wade does not provide that we all fund abortion. This effectively spreads the blood on the hands of abortion providers and recipients to all of us. This will not sit well with the right, or moderates like me, and it shouldn't. I give him political kudos for making this move now when his political capital is so high but he has done more to galvanize social conservatives than John MCain has all year long. That's change too I suppose.
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