[WEEKLYSTANDARD] In the Time magazine issue published after the 2008 electionwhose cover depicted Barack Obama If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon... as Franklin RooseveltPeter Beinart anticipated a new era of liberal hegemony that would last until Sasha and Malia have kids.
President B.O. is not yet a grandfather, but his era of liberal hegemony only appears to have lasted months, not decades. Photoshopping gave Obama the pince-nez and cigarette holder that were FDRs trademarks but could not conjure the startling congressional majorities of the 1930s. The Depression and New Deal left Republicans discredited, irrelevant, and shattered. GOP House and Senate majorities of 62 percent and 58 percent, respectively, after the 1928 election shrank to caucuses of 20 percent and 17 percent after 1936. Under Obama the trajectory has been the opposite: Republicans have gone from 41 percent of the House seats after the 2008 election to 57 percent after 2014 and from 40 senators to 54.
Inevitably, Democrats are trying to figure out why the present that dismays them is so much less congenial than the future they recently anticipated. Some have begun to disparage Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... , the incumbents most FDR-like achievement. Half of the 60 Democratic senators who voted for the Affordable Care Act in December 2009the exact number needed to prevent its being filibustered to death, since all Republicans opposed itare no longer in the Senate. These ex-senators include eight who were defeated by Republicans, and eight more who chose not to run again and were succeeded by Republicans.
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Not just health care policy but the value and political feasibility of modern liberalism’s raison d’être is at stake. The main point of Schumer’s recent speech was “Democrats must embrace government” as “what we believe in,” “what unites our party,” and as “the only thing that’s going to get the middle class going again.” He thought that Obamacare was regrettable to the extent it had complicated rather than furthered that fundamental purpose.
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It's all about show. When it comes time to vote, the minions will still support massive centralized government no matter how inefficient or corrupt.
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#6 It's all about show. When it comes time to vote, the minions will still support massive centralized government no matter how inefficient or corrupt.
#7 Tame Republicans keep running interference for the Dems. Dems are never accountable. They just go into remission.
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These.
The Dems are happy to take the hit so long as the policy is now in place. And the ones who lost their offices will get succor from the Establishment to make the hurting go away.
Meanwhile, the Boehner-McConnell axis will simply consolidate most of the Dem's gains for them, much as the immediate post-New Deal GOP did in the Fifties.
[OBSERVER] Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani called on current Mayor Bill de Blasio to place NYPD personnel in the citys mosques yesterday, after Islamic Lions of Islam slaughtered the staff of the Gay Pareeian magazine Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
Speaking on Fox News, Mr. Giuliani criticized his successor for ending a two decade-old policy of planting police informants in Moslem houses of worship, and urged him to again assign cops to keep tabs on the religious institutions. The former mayor argued such action was justified because the conspirators behind the 1993 World Trade Center attack met in mosques, and subsequent investigations led to arrest and the conviction of bully boy Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, who hoped to launch attacks in the transit system.
The mayor of New York, one of the first things he did was he pulled all of the police out of the mosques. Well, you know who put the police in the mosques? I did. You know who increased the number of police in the mosques? Kelly and Bloomberg, Mr. Giuliani told host Greta Van Susteren. And why did I do it? Because the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 was organized in a mosque. The blind sheikh, who went to jail for a hundred years, was planning to blow up our subways in a mosque.
Mr. Giuliani argued that the threat of terrorism today is greater than ever, as exemplified by the massacre in La Belle France.
I think it is becoming more difficult for us, he said. I think we have to expect this is going to happen in the United States, I hate to say that.
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No worry -- de Blasio will draw cops FROM mosques, by preferring to hire from the most radical centers of hate.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
