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Anthony says:

March 9, 2010 at 2:26 pm

Ooops. Was that too crude?

After that and the Emanuel-Massa “shower summit,” we may have to give this administration an R-rating. 😉

What kills me about guys like Herbert, as you pointed out, ST, is that their “solution” is full-blown statist interventionism, just targeted toward the agenda items people like Herbert are worried about. Apparently the scales have yet to fall from his eyes; progressivism is primarily about creating state power over the individual, not about “helping people.” Obama and his allies know health care “reform” is the surest route to gain and solidify this power, hence the push for it. Herbert just doesn’t (or refuses to) see it.

Regarding the business climate and jobs, this is the same problem created by FDR’s New Deal in the 1930s: constant, quixotic intervention in markets by the government, including demonization of whole industries (then the utilities, now insurance companies), kills business confidence, stifles new investment, and prevents hiring. The lessons are there to be seen (see Schlaes’ excellent “The Forgotten Man”), but the hagiographic way the New Deal is treated in our History texts and the media prevents that understanding from sinking in.

Hence, people like Herbert wind up believing in the fairy tales of statism and of statists like Obama.
Great White Rat says:

March 9, 2010 at 2:44 pm

Herbert and Maguire both miss the obvious point: to statists like Obama, jobs really are much less important than government control of health care.

Think about it for a moment. If you give someone a job – especially a good job – that person becomes what? A TAXPAYER. Now, while there are exceptions, being a taxpayer tends to make one want to manage your own finances. As much as possible, you choose where to live, what to eat, what to drive, and so forth. In other words, holding a job tends to make you more independent.

And that’s the last thing statists like Obama want to see. Their fantasy dream world is one in which every last person depends on the State for everything, including housing, livelihood, and especially medical care. They figure that when you’re at the mercy of a panel of party loyalist bureaucrats to approve or reject your next surgical procedure, you’re a lot more likely to do everything they say.

The only reason Obama’s giving lip service to job creation now is that the peasants are starting to get restless, and he thinks he has to calm them before they revolt and set up an electoral guillotine in the town square in November.

In short, jobs = independence from government; health care ~~reform~~ deform = dependence on government. Hence the priorities.
Tex says:

March 9, 2010 at 2:52 pm

Obama must have been Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burned in another life.
Joseph Brown says:

March 9, 2010 at 3:34 pm

President Onetrickpony only has one thing on his mind at a time, like most children.
First and foremost, subvert the people.
Second,forget about jobs, Gitmo, A’stan.
Third, make himself President for life.
President Onetrickpony. Catchy, no?
ZippyTheWerewolf says:

March 9, 2010 at 3:49 pm

While dozing off reading the article on another site, I noticed that ‘the old softie liberal’ who nicely chastises his liberal cronies, called the Republicans ‘pathetic’. I still dozed off after reading that article.
Joseph Brown says:

March 9, 2010 at 4:05 pm

Zippy, that word comes to mind everytime I see an opinion in my paper from one the NYT people!
My little paper in SC is owned by the times!
Kate says:

March 9, 2010 at 4:56 pm

Nancy says we have to pass the health care bill to find out what’s in it???? Yeah a surprise inside, like we found this bill in a Cracker Jack Box!

The Democrats are mad with power! Their willing partners to get their guy elected are beginning to show more and more buyers’ remorse. Like a bunch of South Park brats they will be chiming…OMG we killed the economy!
Carlos says:

March 9, 2010 at 6:21 pm

I used to think Slow Joe had the worst case of foot-in-mouth disease, but after what Nazi Pelousy said today I think Slow Joe has real competition.

Of course, Nazi gets her opinion of “the people” from her constituency, so what does that tell you about what she thinks of the Bay Area Bongers and all? Apparently all she wants is their money, she can’t stand being around ditzes that want to blather on about “issues.”
ShyAsrai says:

March 9, 2010 at 6:56 pm

i would compare Pelosi, Reid & Co. to a herd of starving hogs at an all-u-can-eat-mystery-meal trough except that hogs are noble creatures that have, for millenia, provided humanity with nourishment and countless other wonderful things.

one can only compare this generation of Lefties to each other, since no animal is as deliberately ignorant and humanly conniving as they.

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