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The Misery Index

9.4.09 @ 6:01AM

No second Carter Presidency. The media's soulmate: The Sanford affair, abortion, and anti-Semitism.

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He will, won't he?
-- Stephen Zierak
Kansas City, Missouri

Being politically cautious and astute does not mean we cannot enjoy the misery of Barack Obama and the Democrats. While we should not allow ourselves to become over confident or politically indolent we should not quake in our boots either. America is ascertaining who the real Barack Obama is and the public doesn't like what it's discovering. We can only hope this is the beginnings of a tsunami rejecting Obama's neo-fascist agenda.

While Obama on occasion can masterfully read a teleprompter, a factor that has kept his poll numbers from totally tanking, what the public is rejecting is something more profound -- they're rejecting his vision for America. That's why in under a year the Democrats have gone from their heady victories to worrying. Obama isn't the principled and sincere George W. Bush and it is unlikely he's going to be able to help Democrats in next year's elections. A Muskie type public breakdown for the arrogant and narcissistic Obama is a real possibility as more and more Americans reject his BS.

As for a recovery based on Obama Democrat's spending frenzy, it isn't going to happen. Conservatives need to believe what they say about Keynesian economics -- it doesn't work. Obama's massive spending bill, like FDR's failed New Deal, will only prolong the pain and suffering that Americans are now experiencing. Despite massive hype to "end" the Democrat's recession the reality is things are NOT getting better for Americans. Christmas 2009 portends a Dickensian bleakness not seen since Jimmy Carter or the first year of the Reagan Presidency. In fact, aside from the joy of our Savior's birth this Christmas, thanks to Obama and Democrats, we will see more Americans homeless and hungry than in our nation's history.

A real and effective stimulus bill would have cut taxes, reduced government spending and rewarded hard work and productivity. The Democrats' massive government spending with its overworked printing presses has sucked the oxygen out of the American economy creating long term unemployment or underemployment for millions of Americans and hard times that only Republicans can reverse. Like Bill Clinton, the one thing that can save Obama from himself is a Republican Congress. A Republican Congress that reverses the Democrat's catastrophic policies and returns America to the supply-side economics of Reagan and Bush.

To understand Obama and his potential political future, one needs to study the failed administrations of Duval Patrick (D MA), John Corzine (D NJ), Martin O'Malley (D MD) and Bev Perdue (D NC). These failed Democrat Governors are quintessential Obama Democrats with their ability to audaciously destroy hope and change things for the worse. The difference being Obama's misery is more widespread.

Republicans and self-described conservatives need to enjoy the current misery of Democrats and plan to make 2010 hotter for them. There is Democrat blood in the water and we need to do everything in our power to make the wounds politically fatal.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

INDEFENSIBLE
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.'s The Palmetto Pathetico:

The reason that Sanford is still in the news is because he is a horse's ass!!! I am a conservative through and through but no matter what his political leaning is, to do what he did, to his family number one, and then to his fellow politicians in his state is indefensible. How is it possible that a person in any position, let alone the Governor of a state, would just take off and disappear for a week? This man is an idiot and deserves all the scorn that comes to him.

I congratulate his wife for leaving him.
-- Mike Denino
Oakton, Virginia

THE OTHER CHOICE
Re:David N. Bass's Win Politically, Lose Culturally:
There is another "choice" -- don't get knocked up in the first place! Today, there are so many ways to avoid pregnancy -- from "Just say[ing] 'no" up to, and including, the latest iteration of Norplant, that abortion should be rendered unnecessary, except in very rare instances such as rape, incest or ectopic pregnancies.
-- Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia

There has been a lot of wasted time and effort and blood with this issue: Demonstrating in the streets, bombing abortion clinics, religious vigils, assassinating abortionists, threats, counter-threats and court battles. The way to win the abortion battle is not to look to the government - - a government that can't seem to do much right anyway - - but to look to the American Medical Association for a conscience check.

Start asking why the AMA does not revoke the licenses of those members who disregard the medical system's golden rule: Do no harm.
-- K. L. Schaub
Charleston, South Carolina

CHOKE ON IRONY
Re: Daniel Mandel's The Refusal to Recognize Anti-Semitism:

Two brave Jews, Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn, just saved free speech in Canada. Now Canadian anti-Semites are free to scapegoat and slander Jews, if they don't choke on the irony.
-- David Govett
Davis, California

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Letter to the Editor View all comments (59) | Leave a comment

Alan Brooks| 9.4.09 @ 8:01PM

"Events may yet rescue the left's Chosen One. An improving economy will drive up his poll numbers"

it will be a repeat of the '90s.
a Gingrich Space-Moonbeam will be speaker in '11, then in'96, Obama is reelected.

to paraphrase the Great One (that is, Joe Namath) I guarantee.

Alan Brooks| 9.4.09 @ 8:06PM

I guarantee Obama's reelection because the GOP is compromised.
Nothing will be done about the border, for instance; because if the border were much more secure businesses would have to automate, not rely on cheap labor.
the GOP is an empty vessel now.

now, I did not vote for Obama last november; but if the Grand Old Potatoheads don't get their act-- if they have one-- together, then I will definitely vote for him in '12.

Alan Brooks| 9.4.09 @ 8:08PM

oops, in 2012 Obama will be reelected, not '96-- a Freudian slip!

Alan Brooks| 9.4.09 @ 11:00PM

One must hasten to add that no matter who is elected, in any election, social progress IMO is over. What is happening now? gays can marry in Iowa? that is progress?
Whoop de do da day.
Personally, I agree with Churchill's statement to his doctor around '43 or '44: "what good is there in any new thing?"

An open question in a conservative/rightwing blog.

lee| 9.4.09 @ 11:53PM

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Alan Brooks| 9.5.09 @ 9:02PM

I am negative and contary in many ways but there's a positive outlook as well; there have been great material blessings.
My difference is with those who hold a more positive view of society, even conservatives who understand that there is more to Madisonism than individuals and factions opposing each other. Yes there is more.

But since I think less of human nature than optimistic conservatives, there is not MUCH more.

Alan Brooks| 9.5.09 @ 9:07PM

contrary, not 'contary'.
But not entirely contrary, not to be a nihilist; only to write here in little globules of how men want power more than anything-- and so thus they must be constantly checked lest they destroy others as they would even destroy themselves.

Scott A Joseph, MD| 9.6.09 @ 10:58PM

Mark Steyn isn't Jewish. But we'd be glad to claim him.

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David Govett| 9.7.09 @ 2:31AM

Scott:
Although Mark Steyn was baptized a Catholic, his family is of Jewish descent. (See Wikipedia.com.)

clockwater| 9.7.09 @ 5:40PM

Just look at the times of alan brooks postings! You gotta feel sorry for a guy with no life, sitting at his computer arguing with unknowns, SENDing, Then thinking, "And another thing...." 4 minutes later. SENDS, 6 minutes later - on and on, ad nauseam. Like a dog, making sure he visits every tree.

clockwatcher| 9.7.09 @ 5:41PM

make that "clockwatcher" - nom du jour....

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