Which is more troubling? The direction that the Obama Administration and the Pelosi-Reid Congress are taking this nation? Or the way they are doing it?
In all honesty – I say the latter. We have to do this immediately or else there will be catastrophe or – and I can hardly believe the president would say this – permanent damage to our economy. And we are not allowed to raise principled objections because that would constitute “politics”.
What on earth is politics except debate and dissent and the freedom to raise objections? These attempts to silence shut down and marginalize any and all opposition are what I find most offensive. What exactly does it mean to “transcend politics”?
Today, again, we are told that “politics” has no place in the debate about the tripartite stimulus legislation, which is partly a stimulus, partly liberalism’s agenda of social engineering, and partly the beginning of “remaking” the economy. Gary Wolfram of Hillsdale College notes that the size of the stimulus — the House-Senate compromise bill is $789 billion — is just slightly less than the amount of all U.S. currency in circulation, and is larger than the entire federal budget was until 1983. Yet it is said that in the debate about this encompassing legislation — which concerns what government can and should do, and ultimately what kind of regime America shall have — people should “transcend” (so says Larry Summers, the president’s economic adviser) politics. What, then, would be left for political argument to be about?
It is said that the negligible Republican support for the stimulus legislation means that bipartisanship is dead. But what can “bipartisanship” mean concerning legislation that concerns almost everything?
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A significant portion of the American population thinks the president and Congress are making a bad situation worse. I say they are attempting to rewrite the basic guiding vision of our nation. But we are not even allowed to say “now hold on a second”.
