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I can't sleep tonight, as the recent chaotic events continue to infect all Americans, thanks to

The Party of Chaos
The Party of Antifa
The Party of Rioting
The Party of Crime
The Party of Saul Alinsky
The Party of Socialism
The Party of Abortion
The Party of Transgender Insanity
The Party of Obamagate
The Party of Intimidation
The Party of Arrogance
The Party of Hatred For America
The Party of Racial Divisiveness
The Party of Class Warfare
The Party of Thought Control
The Party of Fake News
The Party of Fear

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FEAR Climate Change
FEAR Covid 19
FEAR President Trump
FEAR Fox News
FEAR Conservative Speakers

What have Democrats brought our country to, people?

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Obama’s fear-mongering
By JONAH GOLDBERG
SEP. 16, 2014
11:46 AM
Imagine a child falls down a well. Now imagine I offer to lend the parents my ladder to save her, but only if they promise to paint my house. Would you applaud me for not letting a crisis go to waste? Or would you think I’m a jerk?
I ask because I’m trying to come to terms with Rule No. 1 of the Obama administration.
“Rule 1: Never allow a crisis to go to waste,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told the New York Times right after the election. “They are opportunities to do big things.” Over the weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told members of the European Parliament, “Never waste a good crisis.” Then President Obama explained in his Saturday radio and Internet address that there is “great opportunity in the midst of” the “great crisis” befalling America.
Numerous commentators, including me, have pointed to this never-waste-a-crisis mantra as ideological evidence that Obama’s budget priorities are a great bait-and-switch. He says he wants to fix the financial crisis, but he’s focusing on selling his long-standing liberal agenda on healthcare, energy and education as the way to do it, even though his proposals have absolutely nothing to do with addressing the housing and toxic-debt problems that are the direct causes of our predicament. Indeed, some -- particularly on Wall Street -- would argue that his policies are making the crisis worse.

But the real scandal isn’t those policies, even though they’re bad enough. The real scandal is that this administration thinks crises are opportunities for governmental power-grabs (It seems writer Randolph Bourne was wrong. It is not war, but crisis, that is the health of the state).
Michael Kinsley famously said that a gaffe in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. As they say, it’s funny because it’s true.
But the White House tactic isn’t funny at all. It’s scary. Its amorality is outweighed only by the grotesque and astoundingly naked cynicism of it all.
Recall that not long ago, the first item on the bill of indictment against the Bush administration was that it was “exploiting” 9/11 to enact its agenda. Al Gore shrieked that President Bush “played on our fears” to get his way. In response to nearly every Bush policy proposal, from the Patriot Act to the toppling of Saddam Hussein, critics would caterwaul that Bush was taking advantage of the country’s fear of terrorism.



The Bush administration always denied this, and rightly so. If the president admitted that he was using a national calamity for narrow partisan or ideological advantage, it would be outrageous. Indeed, every time Karl Rove or some other administration official said anything that could be even remotely interpreted as using the war or 9/11 for partisan or ideological gain, the editorial pages and Democratic news-release factories churned into overdrive with righteous indignation.
Well, now we have the president, along with his chief aides, admitting -- boasting! -- that they want to exploit a national emergency for their preexisting agenda, and there’s no scandal. No one even calls it a gaffe. No, they call it leadership.
It’s not leadership. It’s fear-mongering.
Franklin Roosevelt said that all we have to fear is fear itself. Now Barack Obama all but admits that all he has to fear is the loss of fear itself.

In other realms of life, exploiting a crisis for your own purposes is an outrage. If a business uses a hurricane warning, for example, to price-gouge on vital supplies, it is a crime. When a liberal administration does it, it’s taking advantage of a historic opportunity.
Obama’s defenders respond to this argument that Obama’s motives are decent, noble and pure. He wants to help the uninsured and the poorly educated. He wants to make good on his vow to halt those rising oceans.
But this is just a rationalization. Every president thinks his agenda is what’s best for the country; every politician believes his motives are noble. The point is that scaring people about X in order to achieve Y is fundamentally undemocratic.
This was transparently obvious to Bush’s harshest critics, who alleged that 9/11 was merely a convenient crisis for devious neocons who wanted to topple Hussein all along. But it’s now clear that many of these critics simply objected to the agenda, not the alleged tactics. Now that it’s their turn, they see nothing wrong with doing what they so recently condemned.

They even admit it, over and over again.
jgoldberg@latimescolumnists.com
 
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I can't sleep tonight, as the recent chaotic events continue to infect all Americans, thanks to

The Party of Chaos
The Party of Antifa
The Party of Rioting
The Party of Crime
The Party of Saul Alinsky
The Party of Socialism
The Party of Abortion
The Party of Transgender Insanity
The Party of Obamagate
The Party of Intimidation
The Party of Arrogance
The Party of Hatred For America
The Party of Racial Divisiveness
The Party of Class Warfare
The Party of Thought Control
The Party of Fake News
The Party of Fear

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FEAR Climate Change
FEAR Covid 19
FEAR President Trump
FEAR Fox News
FEAR Conservative Speakers

What have Democrats brought our country to, people?

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Obama’s fear-mongering
By JONAH GOLDBERG
SEP. 16, 2014
11:46 AM
Imagine a child falls down a well. Now imagine I offer to lend the parents my ladder to save her, but only if they promise to paint my house. Would you applaud me for not letting a crisis go to waste? Or would you think I’m a jerk?
I ask because I’m trying to come to terms with Rule No. 1 of the Obama administration.
“Rule 1: Never allow a crisis to go to waste,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told the New York Times right after the election. “They are opportunities to do big things.” Over the weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told members of the European Parliament, “Never waste a good crisis.” Then President Obama explained in his Saturday radio and Internet address that there is “great opportunity in the midst of” the “great crisis” befalling America.
Numerous commentators, including me, have pointed to this never-waste-a-crisis mantra as ideological evidence that Obama’s budget priorities are a great bait-and-switch. He says he wants to fix the financial crisis, but he’s focusing on selling his long-standing liberal agenda on healthcare, energy and education as the way to do it, even though his proposals have absolutely nothing to do with addressing the housing and toxic-debt problems that are the direct causes of our predicament. Indeed, some -- particularly on Wall Street -- would argue that his policies are making the crisis worse.

But the real scandal isn’t those policies, even though they’re bad enough. The real scandal is that this administration thinks crises are opportunities for governmental power-grabs (It seems writer Randolph Bourne was wrong. It is not war, but crisis, that is the health of the state).
Michael Kinsley famously said that a gaffe in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. As they say, it’s funny because it’s true.
But the White House tactic isn’t funny at all. It’s scary. Its amorality is outweighed only by the grotesque and astoundingly naked cynicism of it all.
Recall that not long ago, the first item on the bill of indictment against the Bush administration was that it was “exploiting” 9/11 to enact its agenda. Al Gore shrieked that President Bush “played on our fears” to get his way. In response to nearly every Bush policy proposal, from the Patriot Act to the toppling of Saddam Hussein, critics would caterwaul that Bush was taking advantage of the country’s fear of terrorism.



The Bush administration always denied this, and rightly so. If the president admitted that he was using a national calamity for narrow partisan or ideological advantage, it would be outrageous. Indeed, every time Karl Rove or some other administration official said anything that could be even remotely interpreted as using the war or 9/11 for partisan or ideological gain, the editorial pages and Democratic news-release factories churned into overdrive with righteous indignation.
Well, now we have the president, along with his chief aides, admitting -- boasting! -- that they want to exploit a national emergency for their preexisting agenda, and there’s no scandal. No one even calls it a gaffe. No, they call it leadership.
It’s not leadership. It’s fear-mongering.
Franklin Roosevelt said that all we have to fear is fear itself. Now Barack Obama all but admits that all he has to fear is the loss of fear itself.

In other realms of life, exploiting a crisis for your own purposes is an outrage. If a business uses a hurricane warning, for example, to price-gouge on vital supplies, it is a crime. When a liberal administration does it, it’s taking advantage of a historic opportunity.
Obama’s defenders respond to this argument that Obama’s motives are decent, noble and pure. He wants to help the uninsured and the poorly educated. He wants to make good on his vow to halt those rising oceans.
But this is just a rationalization. Every president thinks his agenda is what’s best for the country; every politician believes his motives are noble. The point is that scaring people about X in order to achieve Y is fundamentally undemocratic.
This was transparently obvious to Bush’s harshest critics, who alleged that 9/11 was merely a convenient crisis for devious neocons who wanted to topple Hussein all along. But it’s now clear that many of these critics simply objected to the agenda, not the alleged tactics. Now that it’s their turn, they see nothing wrong with doing what they so recently condemned.

They even admit it, over and over again.
jgoldberg@latimescolumnists.com
Great post. Too bad it's true.
 
My Ignore List just grew by candycorn (sick).
A brother-in-law advised me that the word diabolos, or devil in Spanish, has a Greek origin.
διάβολος (diabolos) -- slanderous ...

candycorn the liar slandered me as alcoholic. I don't drink.
He slandered me as psychotic, taking "meds." I am not and don't take "meds."
He slandered conservatives as spouting "conspiracy theories" but failed to name a single one.
Slander is their metier. It's a sin.

When I describe them accurately, they call THAT "slander." It is not. It is descriptive.
They DO promote abortion, and crime, and fear, and homosexuality, and a host of maladies and sins.
 
And after the dust has settled
The Minneapolis Police Department will find it difficult to recruit the best and brightest. Not that they did that in the past, but it will be tougher in the future. The median salary at MPD is $60K/year. The starting pay is much lower. Morale will hit rock bottom after they abandoned a police station to rioters. They will be mocked by officers from other agencies. Removing the yellow stain will take decades. The qualified officers will lateral transfer elsewhere. The dregs that nobody wants will remain – and be promoted.
 
The city of Minneapolis should be sued by insurance companies as the proximate cause of billions of dollars in losses due to their keeping that murderous officer on staff after repeated offenses, culminating in this highly publicized and unjustifiable killing.
 

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