A MOB IS BREWING ACCORDING TO MICHAEL GOODWIN
MICHAEL GOODWIN IS NO RIGHT WING RADICAL REACTIONARY BUT HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUT GOVERNMENT RUN AMOK.
From anger to madness: A class-warfare crazed government
Everybody makes mistakes, and I made a beaut the other
day. I was wrong to call members of Congress blow-hards and buffoons and
declare them worse than useless.
I was too kind.
I should have said our representatives are gangsters in
pinstripes and pearls. They are petty tyrants and the more power they grab,
the more at risk we are. Homeland Security should flash Code Red any time this
Congress is in session.
It is twilight in America now. The House vote to use the
tax code to retroactively punish bonus babies was an act of sheer madness.
What started as phony outrage at AIG has crossed the line into insane
policy. It is stunning that the vote was lopsided and bipartisan.
The Senate is itchy to go along, and President Obama says he's ready to
tighten the thumbscrews on the banks. Is there no adult who will bring a
straitjacket?
We should all be very afraid. Class warfare is mere
predicate for a witch hunt that, once unleashed, will not stop with
misbegotten wealth. It will punish success and stifle innovation. Dissent will
invite dishonor.
That Congress is a gang of cheap connivers is not news.
Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangel, Charles Grassley, Barney
Frank - they have been national embarrassments for
years.
But now they are dangerous, emboldened by public fear and
anger. They know nothing, but have power and smell opportunity for more.
Missing in action is the Barack Obama who vowed to unite
the country around common values. Lately he has been the very opposite of the
man he promised. Instead of hope, many have a growing fear of the arrogant
government he leads.
Obama is smart, quick and charming, and, as he showed on
"The Tonight Show," owner of a thousand-watt
smile he can deploy at will. He silkily manages to make the ridiculous sound
reasonable. When he insults the Special Olympics, he is forgiven.
Yet even "Tonight" host Jay
Leno broke from full flattery to reveal his qualms
about the meaning of the bonus tax. "Here's something that kind of scared me,"
he said. "If the government decides they don't like a guy, all of a sudden,
hey, we're going to tax you and then, boom, and it passes."
Obama brushed it off, part of an endless road show claim
that he will bring back "common sense" to the financial system and restore
"those values that built America."
If only. In truth, there is no history for what he is
doing. He is the most radical President of our times, far outside the
mainstream of our political philosophy.
He is not a reformer who fixes things. He fancies himself
"transformative," a man who reshapes and reorders. It apparently begins with
smashing the existing order under the pretext of managing the crisis he
inherited.
During the campaign, a fellow journalist confided that "I
know Obama is a Manchurian candidate, I just can't figure out what for."
I laughed then, but no more. Obama represents a secular
religion that believes, no matter the malady, Washington is the antidote. More
government is the chicken soup of his tribe.
It is an illusion of many Republicans and Democrats that
Washington can successfully manage the economy and our lives. Our institutions
and culture are too big, too diverse and too unruly to be run like a banana
republic.
Yet the economic mess has robbed the nation of its
confidence, and the vacuum is being filled by politicians bearing promises and
borrowed dollars. The true cost of this "help" will come later, with
back-breaking debt and a lack of growth and opportunity.
We can't say we haven't been warned. "Whom the gods would
destroy, they first make mad" is more than folklore. It predicts our fate if
we follow the government mob.
From anger to madness: A class-warfare crazed government
mob is running amok
Saturday, March 21st 2009, 7:50 PM
Everybody makes mistakes, and I made a beaut the other
day. I was wrong to call members of Congress blow-hards and buffoons and
declare them worse than useless.
I was too kind.
I should have said our representatives are gangsters in
pinstripes and pearls. They are petty tyrants and the more power they grab,
the more at risk we are. Homeland Security should flash Code Red any time this
Congress is in session.
It is twilight in America now. The House vote to use the
tax code to retroactively punish bonus babies was an act of sheer madness.
What started as phony outrage at AIG has crossed the line into insane
policy. It is stunning that the vote was lopsided and bipartisan.
The Senate is itchy to go along, and President Obama says he's ready to
tighten the thumbscrews on the banks. Is there no adult who will bring a
straitjacket?
We should all be very afraid. Class warfare is mere
predicate for a witch hunt that, once unleashed, will not stop with
misbegotten wealth. It will punish success and stifle innovation. Dissent will
invite dishonor.
That Congress is a gang of cheap connivers is not news.
Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangel, Charles Grassley, Barney
Frank - they have been national embarrassments for
years.
But now they are dangerous, emboldened by public fear and
anger. They know nothing, but have power and smell opportunity for more.
Missing in action is the Barack Obama who vowed to unite
the country around common values. Lately he has been the very opposite of the
man he promised. Instead of hope, many have a growing fear of the arrogant
government he leads.
Obama is smart, quick and charming, and, as he showed on
"The Tonight Show," owner of a thousand-watt
smile he can deploy at will. He silkily manages to make the ridiculous sound
reasonable. When he insults the Special Olympics, he is forgiven.
Yet even "Tonight" host Jay
Leno broke from full flattery to reveal his qualms
about the meaning of the bonus tax. "Here's something that kind of scared me,"
he said. "If the government decides they don't like a guy, all of a sudden,
hey, we're going to tax you and then, boom, and it passes."
Obama brushed it off, part of an endless road show claim
that he will bring back "common sense" to the financial system and restore
"those values that built America."
If only. In truth, there is no history for what he is
doing. He is the most radical President of our times, far outside the
mainstream of our political philosophy.
He is not a reformer who fixes things. He fancies himself
"transformative," a man who reshapes and reorders. It apparently begins with
smashing the existing order under the pretext of managing the crisis he
inherited.
During the campaign, a fellow journalist confided that "I
know Obama is a Manchurian candidate, I just can't figure out what for."
I laughed then, but no more. Obama represents a secular
religion that believes, no matter the malady, Washington is the antidote. More
government is the chicken soup of his tribe.
It is an illusion of many Republicans and Democrats that
Washington can successfully manage the economy and our lives. Our institutions
and culture are too big, too diverse and too unruly to be run like a banana
republic.
Yet the economic mess has robbed the nation of its
confidence, and the vacuum is being filled by politicians bearing promises and
borrowed dollars. The true cost of this "help" will come later, with
back-breaking debt and a lack of growth and opportunity.
We can't say we haven't been warned. "Whom the gods would
destroy, they first make mad" is more than folklore. It predicts our fate if
we follow the government mob.
Posted by THENEWBOSTONTEAPARTY at 3/24/2009 7:48 AM 
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