Posted by
john on Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:17:41 PM
Our favorite columnist, Holman Jenkins, lays it all out for us today. He wrote the column I would have wanted to write. I've been contending that President Mugabe-Wannabe doesn't give a damn about the economy. His concern is getting even with The Man, and he's going to try it because he thinks he can blame Bush for everything he purposely does to screw things up. If you think I'm crazy, just watch him.
Let's hope Holman Jenkins is correct in his prediction as to where this cowardly strategy will take the Obamalama:
He kids himself if he thinks he will be allowed, like FDR, to preside over a Depression without being blamed for it. The public is different now - the world is different - and he will own the "Obama Depression" sooner than he thinks.
We can only hope. But I'm telling you now he's sowing the seeds, with his Depression policy, of what will be (finally) "the worst economy since the Great Depression".
The quote above is actually from the end of Mr. Jenkins' column. He began by quoting the Obamessiah himself, from the inaugural: "Put away childish things..." Mr. Jenkins has a list of things for the President to put away, as follows:
1. "Put away the global warming panic";
2. "Put away the 'energy independence' conceit";
3. "Put away Ponzi welfarism"; and
4. "Put away class warfare tax politics".
I'm not holding my breath. We have no reason to believe the crack dealer in-chief is anything other than a Chicago race-hustling thug - apart from his Sidney Poitier sweet talk. For all the talk of change, hope, post-this, and post-that, the "stimulus" told us all we need to know: as Mr. Jenkins described it, once in office, his interest is in fulfilling the wish lists of those who put [him] there."
If nothing else, says Mr. Jenkins, this is going to be a fascinating presidency.
But his presidency will get really interesting in a year or two, or six months - whenever he finally realizes that everything he thought he wanted to do is irrelevant. He'll then have to adapt an agenda for the world as it is, in which many childish things no longer have a place.
After 9/11, many of us hoped that our political "leadership" would wake up to a new world in which clownishness and ancient shibboleths would no longer be tolerated. Sadly, the clowns, communists, and incompetents fought tooth-and-nail to preserve their positions, using every dirtbag trick in the dirtbag politician's book. Look at where we are now, as a consequence. And the ultimate dirtbag, President Shakedown, is betting his presidency on his ability to sell more of the disease as a cure, with his ability to blame the resulting depression on his predecessor as the backstop. Mark my words: he intends to sink the country.