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The Spectacle Blog
As I’ve said many times before, it is standard operating procedure for radicals to accuse their enemies of the things they themselves are guilty of.
A case in point is Steve Rattner, President Obama’s failed “car czar,” whose latest New York Times column accuses Republican presidential candidates of extremism.
In fact the only extremists on the national scene today are the Obama Democrats. President Obama’s spendthrift policies, nationalization of industries, and consolidation of even more power in the executive branch while he relentlessly promotes class warfare make him the most extreme American president in my lifetime.
In order to distract from the disastrous policies of his former boss Rattner lashes out at those who are trying to correct America’s course. Rattner smears GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann, depicting them as hellbent on gutting government.
According to Rattner, they embrace
a philosophy oriented around shrinking the role of the federal government in every imaginable way, by slashing spending, cutting taxes and halting or rescinding regulations. Their mantra is repeal and retrenchment, devoid of new initiatives or a positive agenda.
If only.
The only thing we’ve heard from most of the various Republican candidates so far is a desire to undo the damage President Obama has done to America.
If there’s a master plan to miniaturize the federal government, I’ve yet to hear it (and I’m open to it).
Rattner also takes the candidates to task for promising to oppose future increases in the federal government’s debt ceiling. Such talk “may sound good on the Iowa campaign trail, but it would easily tip the economy into an unending downward spiral.”
Wrong again. The growing national debt is what threatens to kill that portion of the economy that has miraculously survived the Obama onslaught. Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit rating of the United States for the first time in history because government spending is out of control.
The Republican candidates are offering hope and change — for real.
That’s why Rattner and his ilk fear them.
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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 8.16.11 @ 12:18PM
I saw you on Fox discussing the ACORN fraud. Great comments but you were cut off. Keep plugging away.
Matthew Vadum | 8.16.11 @ 1:19PM
Thanks. Eric Bolling said he'd have me back on for a fuller discussion in a few days.
Conservative View| 8.16.11 @ 1:15PM
HE MAY BE RIGHT
Actually Rattner may be right. It is very much a part of the Tea Party agenda to shrink the size of the National Government. He calls it gutting, as would anyone who holds the view that only an all powerful Federal Government can cure the ills of the world. I call it gutting because I chose to rip the guts out of unneeded federal programs. So Rattner is, in a very real sense, right.
The Federal Government has grown to such a size that it can not be sustained. Only those, like rattner and his elk, who believe in the myth of inexhaustable wealth cling to the concept that it must grow bigger. That it has the moral obligation, no matter the cost, of fixing everything wrong that can be found.
So, perhaps at least one Czar has the right idea. The Tea Party is out to gut, rip, tear, shread, vivasect, and scalp the present size of the Federal Government. Won't it be grand when we have the political clout to do just that.
Matthew Vadum | 8.16.11 @ 1:22PM
Right, but I wouldn't characterize a return to the Constitution as "extremist." Though maybe I'm wrong, given how far we have moved away from the strictures on government provided in the Constitution. Maybe we are radicals. If so, that's fine by me.
Conservative View| 8.16.11 @ 10:01PM
Fine by me too. I haven't been called a radical since 1965 and my dad complained about the length of my hair. So, let 'em call me a radical. I'll wear the ephept with pride.
SeniorD| 8.16.11 @ 1:37PM
To follow on to Conservative View's comment, the Constitution limits the Federal Government to the Enumerated Powers. However, when SCOTUS made the Commerce Clause superior to the rest of the Constitution, the Fed went on growth spurt that hasn't stopped yet.
To the Feds (Democan and Republicrat alike) only the SCOTUS High Priests can fully understand the Constitution and the 'common people' must rely upon their pronouncements. However, like the Guttenburg Bible, the Constitution is available for all to read, contemplate and render a decision compliant with their understanding. When I last read the Constitution, I failed to see just where the Supreme Court is given the power to interpret the Constitution. Did I miss something somewhere?
Marc Jeric| 8.16.11 @ 3:52PM
Let us introduce a measure of true understanding about Mullah Obama (or as I prefer to call that marxist Muslim from Kenya Abu Hussein al-Mombassa). He worked as ACORN member, he was ACORN instructor, he was ACORN lawyer. In Russian "community organization" is called local soviet. Obama is our Community Organizer-in-Chief; he has reserved $8 billion from his stimulus money for ACORN voting fraud activities in 2012 ($16/hour salary). OK, now -are we all closer to understanding what awaits next year? Coupled with ACORN brownshirts there will be also the union goons of SEIU, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, NEA, ATF, and other commie-organized unions. And let us not forget the attack divisions of our eco-nazi friends.
Conservative View| 8.16.11 @ 9:59PM
You forgot to mention the slander machine, the propaganda machine, and the grave stone ghosts that will saunter into every voteing booth they can find. This 2012 election is likely to the the dirtiest in American History. Grab your video cameras boys, they are the best defence against the goons and ghosts.