Posted by
Bert Chapman on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:03:45 AM
During his inaugural address yesterday, President Obama claimed hard decisions about our economy and even national security had been deferred during the previous presidential administration. Talk about absolute hubris! President Bush made many hard decisions about our national security during his tenure. These included launching military operations against Al Qaida in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq even when the protracted and costly nature of these operations proved unpopular with the leftist dimwits in Obama's amen corner. When these same defeatists wanted to pull out of Iraq in abject surrender, President Bush said no and turned to the surge strategy ingeniously crafted by General Petraeus and others which has resulted in the much greater level of stability in Iraq we currently experience.
As appalling as this is, Obama is really swimming in a cesspool of hyprocrisy when he claims hard choices about the nation's economy have been avoided. Since the New Deal era, Conservatives have been warning policymakers about the unsustainability of Social Security, Medicare, and other national entitlement programs created under Democratic Administrations. True conservatives have also been warning of the dangers of incessant deficit spending, a continually increasing national debt, pork barrell spending, and a culture of exorbitant reliance on credit. However, when we have tried to rein in entitlement spending or point out the lax oversight and regulatory practices of Democratic administrations and congresses, we have been demagogically lambasted as wanting to destroy Social Security, Medicare, and other examples of unrestricted federal largesse. We have been branded as callous insensitive brutes who want to put the poor on the street, reinstate slavery, and other libellous nonsense!
My question for Barack is are you going to look in the mirror of your own party, particularly demagogic blowhards like Ted Kennedy, Charles Schumer, Charlie Rangel (a complete list would take several pages) and tell them that the demagogic distortions and outright lies about Conservative efforts to produce prudent fiscal policy, must end and that the Democrats need to tell their parasitic social welfare constituencies that national financial solvency can only be restored by trimming entitlement programs and requiring individuals to live fiscally and morally responsible lives so they do not become a burden on society?. It will be a true profile in courage (to use an earlier generation Kennedy analogy) for Obama to have the cojones to tell off a core element of the Democratic constituency if he is serious about restoring governmental financial solvency. Don't hold your breath waiting for this to happen.
The Obama orgasm of yesterday's inaugural galas will soon end and America is about to have an extremely unpleasant experience as we discover the fraudulent and ephemeral nature of "change we can believe in."