0 Responses to ““The Debts We Inherited…””

1. Ralph Woods says:

   March 8, 2009 at 6:30 am

   I think this episopde with Rush Limabaugh illustrates very clearly the pettiness of Obama and the people with whom he surrounds himself. I believe this is exactly the method used in his early political career in Chicago, eliminate the competition by any means possible fair or unfair. It might have worked in the grubby little world of Chicago and Illinois politics but won’t on the national stage.
2. downtown dubai says:

   March 8, 2009 at 6:35 am

   hey

   the only thing they get in the white house is that 25 million people listened to Rush last week and they are providing wee wee to their socks and shoes on an hourly basis.

   mccain was a puff ball and let ”zero” slip based on civility. what a mistake. naaaa, somebody is out their shouting and i don’t care if it is fu man chu…people who were embarrassed to jump on the ”historic one”, now are not afraid of the future..

   Rush is a loud mouth good hearted slob that just might have saved the nation…but it aleways happens that way in america. just a guy and getting p.o. when morons want to chance or challenge the u.s. way of life.

   btw…don’t miss the puff piece provided by Oprah in her mag witht he first lady. the O asks…hmmm well ”whats’ it like being first lady”…now picture all of the modern first ladies saying such crap…Michelle answers…”i want pie…i -get- pie !!!! sooooo, thats’ the buzzz approaching the Map Room or Oval Office…hmmm just checking.
3. KansasGirl says:

   March 8, 2009 at 6:42 am

   If Rush won’t stand up for us, who will?
4. Israel P. - Jerusalem says:

   March 8, 2009 at 7:05 am

   Diehl suggests that health care is Obama’s equivalent of the Iraq war. But even if that is a valid political comparison, it misses one point. The longer troops remain engaged in Iraq, the closer we get to withdrawal. But the longer a health care program remains in effect, the less the chance that it will ever be rolled back. More likely, the day it passes Congress is the day it becomes eternal.
5. JohnR223 says:

   March 8, 2009 at 8:21 am

   We have gone from ‘I Blame Bush’ to ‘I Blame Rush’ in a matter of five weeks. Change you can believe in!
6. Ted Turner says:

   March 8, 2009 at 8:40 am

   The attempt to change the topic from the collapsing stock market to whether Rush leads the GOP has certainly been a low point for the Administration. And it also revealed a remarkable smallness on the part of Obama supporters who ran hard with the story to keep it alive: Colbert, Gail Collins, Joe Klein – the list goes on. Remember, these were people supposedly infatuated by and impressed with Obama’s depth and seriousness. Now they’ve turned themselves into big top clowns. But for likely long run effect, I rank it up there with the McCain campaign’s failed attempt in September to make an issue of “lipstick on a pig.” That caused a distraction for a few days and thus was a tactical success, but strategically it was an utter failure, revealing a lack of vision on the campaign’s part. Same thing here. The White House and its friendly pundits-and-comics can’t keep the public focused on this issue for the next 18 months – or even the next 18 days. They bought themselves a week with this, but unless some GOP politician inflames it by insulting Rush, then recanting like Galileo, the story is now over.

   By the way, I think the answer to “who is the leader of the GOP” is really an easy one: no one person. And so what? Who was the leader of the Democratic party when it was completely out of power from 2003 to 2006? Kerry, while he held the nomination; and I suppose Pelosi in the run-up to the ’06 midterms. But for much of that time, it was a revolving door of personalities: Howard Dean, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Pelosi, Harry Reid. All were relevant, but none was king. This past couple weeks the leader of the GOP was John McCain, a well-known senator and former party standard banner with a bipartisan record who demonstrated serious core principles by supporting the Administration on its foreign policy while leading an effective revolt against its earmarking and money-wasting. Do all Republicans like him? Certainly not. But neither do they all like Rush. Different people will lead this party on different issues for the next two years, and there is nothing embarrasing about that.
7. aardvarck says:

   March 8, 2009 at 9:44 am

   Obama has always been cynical. He was during his campaign against Hillary in how he repeatedly played the race card against two champions of racial justice while denying that he was doing so. And he was cynical in his attacks on John McCain, praising him for his “long service” to the nation and implying that he was “forgetful” and “losing his way.” Obama is not the man he would like us to think he is. That is one of the reasons he uses teleprompters whenever he speaks, even to do 2 minute introductions. He can’t trust the thoughts that would come unedited out of his own mouth.
8. Sully says:

   March 8, 2009 at 12:50 pm

   “It does the Post’s readers no good to mask the White House’s culpability here.”

   That depends on which readers you’re talking about. One suspects that masking the White House’s culpability prevents cognitive dissidence among many Post readers and reporters.
9. Dan says:

   March 8, 2009 at 1:23 pm

   “[B]oth parties…..”

   BULL!

   The Democrats got what they wanted, outright domination of the Executive and Legislative branches of the government of The United States.

   It’s incumbent upon them to put forward an agenda of growth for the American economy. The opposition has no such obligation to do anything, let alone cooperate with the agenda of the dominant party. Nonetheless, the GOP minority HAS put forward some observations about existing Democrat proposals, and has as well put forward some of their own policy prescriptions for the current economic crisis.

   It’s unseemly for The Washington Post to pretend that what the GOP is doing is playing point-scoring games via Rush Limbaugh. The Post, as well as anyone in Washington, knows that because of recent electoral defeats, the GOP is trying to find some leadership. Thus what the GOP is presently going through is natural in a party.

   The Post can hardly urge the Democrats on to shattering victories over the GOP, then lament the lack of leadership in a party that is on life-support.

   What The Post is doing is ALREADY foreseeing the disaster in store, and they’re desperate, DESPERATE for the Oslammer to have bipartisan political cover when Americans are no longer interested in the various garbs and get-ups of Michelle, and are instead livid that they’re experiencing double-digit unemployment, and staring into the eye of soaring inflation rates.

   The Post knows this isn’t going to end up well, and if the GOP keeps its nerve, holds course, maintains conservative principles and champions Reaganomics, then we could see a reversal like we never even witnessed during the Reagan years.
10. chuck martel says:

    March 8, 2009 at 2:37 pm

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    ” And, yes, it is “unbelievable” that this is what the White House is spending its energy on.”
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    It’s not like they have to shovel this stuff into a hopper. They’re not expending any energy on it. They float some malarkey out and the mindless national media grabs and runs with it. That media jumps all over anything that comes out of the White House. We are goofy for even responding to it.
11. Keith says:

    March 8, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    I’m just a little old man, and I need some advice. I have a very small pension and was planning to augment it with earnings from my savings.

    Which of the following senarios is most likely?

    If Obama is planning to be FDR, he will just let the depression go on and on and on. He will be beloved by the voters for his WPA projects and welfare, and will be reelected to at least five full terms (its a living Constitution). He will tax the middle class into poverty to pay the bills. The dollar will be more valuable. One dollar will buy 100 pounds of potatoes.

    If Obama is planning to be Hitler, he will purposely crash the economy, hoping to cause riots in the streets and asking for an enabling act to deal with the insurrection. As surpreme ruler, he won’t have to buy any more votes. All welfare and budget deficits will suddenly stop. The dollar will amble along about as it has. One dollar will buy three potatoes.

    If Obama has been “socially promoted” all the way to the oval office, and he really is as clueless about economics as he seems, he will probably pull a Robert Mugabe and print money as fast as he can. About 25% of the US population already thinks that little pieces of paper are truly money (despite what the Constitution says). The dollar will become virtually worthless in his first term. One million dollars will buy one potatoe.

    I am going to die a penniless old man if I choose wrongly. What do you think?
12. Sully says:

    March 8, 2009 at 9:35 pm

    Keith – “I’m just a little old man”

    You don’t have to worry about the far future because health care for you old folks has to be limited to free up resources.