The light at the end of the tunnel
For anyone who still gives a damn about individual liberty, freedom of speech, the Constitution, and a future for the US that even passingly resembles something the Founders wouldn’t rise up and spit on, this might be the most chilling thing you read all day:
Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public — and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history. (I include here the extrasolar planets.)
It begins with a near $1 trillion stimulus package. This is where Obama will show himself ideologically. It is his one great opportunity to plant the seeds for everything he cares about: a new green economy, universal health care, a labor resurgence, government as benevolent private-sector “partner.” The first hint came yesterday, when Obama claimed, “If we want to overcome our economic challenges, we must also finally address our health care challenge” — the perfect non sequitur that gives carte blanche to whatever health-care reform and spending the Obama team dreams up. It is the community organizer’s ultimate dream.
Ironically, when the economy tanked in mid-September, it was assumed that both presidential candidates could simply forget about their domestic agendas because with $700 billion drained by financial system rescues, not a penny would be left to spend on anything else.
On the contrary. With the country clamoring for action and with all psychological barriers to government intervention obliterated (by the conservative party, no less), the stage is set for a young, ambitious, supremely confident president — who sees himself as a world-historical figure before even having been sworn in — to begin a restructuring of the American economy and the forging of a new relationship between government and people.
No, a further intensifying of the eternal one, between fucker and fuckee.
Update! Okay, the Krauthammer piece might not be the most chilling thing you read all day after all. This is.
(Via Glenn and Ross Douthat)
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Beware the "man with a mission or a mandate". That will be the one who has the greatest chance of becoming "Gen Brutis". I like the author's notion this will happen about four or more years from now. This will remove (for the most part) the chance this individual would have come up through the ranks starting in or at the end of Viet Nam. That would break the ties with any of the old guard from back in the Korea or WWII days. And tie into the more socially engineered military which came into being starting in the early 70's (remember Z grams anyone?).
Yeah this kinda thing gives me the willies...and I'm fearless.