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http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/338303/write-your-own-inaugural-john-o-sullivanIf we ignore the rhetorical falsities and dig for the real meaning underneath them, the speech becomes almost fascinating. Obama is covertly saying:
Look, I raised federal spending to almost a quarter of America’s GDP in my first term. That leaves a gap of 3.5 to 5 percent of GDP between that spending and likely revenue. None of that gap is going to be filled by cuts in entitlement programs or social expenditures. None whatsoever. My veto will see to that. I will force Congress to raise spending — not solely by raising taxes on the rich (I’ve already conceded that the middle class will have to pay higher taxes, too), but by skewing taxes much more significantly than they are skewed today in a redistributive direction. And insofar as I can’t get higher taxes, I will increase borrowing. At the end of my eight years in office, the result will be a European welfare state (even if I agree not to call it that so as to save the face of those Republicans who vote with me). And however costly the welfare state proves, it will be unrepealable once it is in place. Like Reagan (but unlike either Clinton), I will have reversed the trajectory of American politics.
The Republicans should do everything they can to block Obama's destructive domestic agenda.
It is the moral thing to do for the real working people of this country.
Too late! Too many folks feeding at the public trough for reforms to happen. We're past the point of no return, and must patiently wait for the crisis to come.
I'm reading a 900 page history of the French Revolution. LOUIS XVI was a liberal sweetie who enobled many and lavished France with largesse, and when the money ran out it was the nobles who cut off his head NOT the peasants.
For the Left, this is what winning looks like. President Barack Obama gave a second inaugural address that just as easily could have been delivered by progressive darling Elizabeth Warren.
If the president didn’t repeat the phrase that Republicans threw back at him so often during the 2012 campaign — “you didn’t build that” — the speech was a meditation on the same theme of the limits of individual action. The address was a paean to collectivism, swaddled in the rhetoric of individual liberty and of fidelity to the Founding.
He began and ended with the Founding Fathers and threaded the Declaration of Independence throughout. This gave the speech a conservative sheen. He used the words “timeless,” “ancient,” “lasting,” and “enduring.” He sounded like Republican senator Marco Rubio in invoking “what makes us exceptional,” namely “our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago.”
But this framing of the speech only served to amplify the ambition of President Obama’s larger political project. He hopes to reorient the American mainstream and locate conservatives outside it. He wants to take the Founders from the Right and baptize the unreconstructed entitlement state and the progressive agenda in the American creed.
In Obama’s telling, the high points of our national life are found in collective action, in the growth of government, in teachers trained and roads built. “Now, more than ever,” he declared, “we must do these things together, as one nation and one people.”
The Republicans should do everything they can to block Obama's destructive domestic agenda.
It is the moral thing to do for the real working people of this country.
America approves of Obama's agenda. That's why they voted for it over the conservative one.
Btw, you realize that the only major demographic Romney won was old white people who don't work, right?
lol...
okay, one shot before I got to go:
I'm Merc14!
Prepare for my demise!
10K tax credit for home buyers.
And it's time to trade in those junk cars.
Have you seen the new washer and dryer sets?
Happy days are here again....
Not all of us, the minority rights need to be protectedBtw, you realize that the only major demographic Romney won was old white people who don't work, right?
Btw, you realize that the only major demographic Romney won was old white people who don't work, right?
We, the Living describes the purge mentality; whenever the pie grew smaller, the axe had to fall...
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.
Frédéric Bastiat