Stephanie
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hits the nail on the head here..The Obama is getting meaner and uglier every day in his speechs..
SNIP:
By Charles Krauthammer,
What do you do if you cant run on your record on 9 percent unemployment, stagnant growth and ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see? How to run when you are asked whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago and you are compelled to answer no?
Play the outsider. Declare yourself the underdog. Denounce Washington as if the electorate hasnt noticed that youve been in charge of it for nearly three years.
But above all: Find villains.
President Obama first tried finding excuses, blaming Americas dismal condition on Japanese supply-chain interruptions, the Arab Spring, European debt and various acts of God.
Didnt work. Sounds plaintive, defensive. Lacks fight, which is what Obamas base lusts for above all.
Hence Obamas new strategy: Dont whine, blame. Attack. Indict. Accuse. Who? The rich and their Republican protectors for wrecking America.
In Obamas telling, its the refusal of the rich to pay their fair share that jeopardizes Medicare. If millionaires dont pony up, schools will crumble. Oil-drilling tax breaks are costing teachers their jobs. Corporate loopholes will gut medical research.
Its crude. Its Manichaean. And the left loves it. As a matter of math and logic, however, its ridiculous. Obamas most coveted tax hike an extra 3 to 4.6 percent for millionaires and billionaires (weirdly defined as individuals making more than $200,000) would have reduced last years deficit (at the very most) from $1.29 trillion to $1.21 trillion. Nearly a rounding error. The oil-drilling breaks cover less than half a days federal spending. You could collect Obamas favorite tax loophole depreciation for corporate jets for 100 years and it wouldnt cover one month of Medicare, whose insolvency is a function of increased longevity, expensive new technology and wasteful defensive medicine caused by an insane malpractice system.
After three years, Obamas self-proclaimed transformative social policies have yielded a desperately weak economy. What to do? Take the low road: Plutocrats are bleeding the country, and I shall rescue you from them.
read it all here, from the compost no less..
The scapegoat strategy - The Washington Post
SNIP:
By Charles Krauthammer,
What do you do if you cant run on your record on 9 percent unemployment, stagnant growth and ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see? How to run when you are asked whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago and you are compelled to answer no?
Play the outsider. Declare yourself the underdog. Denounce Washington as if the electorate hasnt noticed that youve been in charge of it for nearly three years.
But above all: Find villains.
President Obama first tried finding excuses, blaming Americas dismal condition on Japanese supply-chain interruptions, the Arab Spring, European debt and various acts of God.
Didnt work. Sounds plaintive, defensive. Lacks fight, which is what Obamas base lusts for above all.
Hence Obamas new strategy: Dont whine, blame. Attack. Indict. Accuse. Who? The rich and their Republican protectors for wrecking America.
In Obamas telling, its the refusal of the rich to pay their fair share that jeopardizes Medicare. If millionaires dont pony up, schools will crumble. Oil-drilling tax breaks are costing teachers their jobs. Corporate loopholes will gut medical research.
Its crude. Its Manichaean. And the left loves it. As a matter of math and logic, however, its ridiculous. Obamas most coveted tax hike an extra 3 to 4.6 percent for millionaires and billionaires (weirdly defined as individuals making more than $200,000) would have reduced last years deficit (at the very most) from $1.29 trillion to $1.21 trillion. Nearly a rounding error. The oil-drilling breaks cover less than half a days federal spending. You could collect Obamas favorite tax loophole depreciation for corporate jets for 100 years and it wouldnt cover one month of Medicare, whose insolvency is a function of increased longevity, expensive new technology and wasteful defensive medicine caused by an insane malpractice system.
After three years, Obamas self-proclaimed transformative social policies have yielded a desperately weak economy. What to do? Take the low road: Plutocrats are bleeding the country, and I shall rescue you from them.
read it all here, from the compost no less..
The scapegoat strategy - The Washington Post
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