New Fox News piece: Will Obama push us over the edge?
My newest Fox News piece starts this way:
Obama thinks he has a mandate for change. But this is the man who ran for president in 2008 promising to “cut net spending” and to shrink the federal government; a man who promised that his “stimulus” spending was only temporary.
Obama hid regulations from view until after his reelection. The press maintained the fiction that Obama supports the Second Amendment and is no threat to citizens’ keeping guns for self-defense. Yet the day after his reelection, Obama called for the UN Arms Trade Treaty negotiations to be started again, and a few weeks later he promised to put the full force of the federal government behind a push for massive new gun control.
Even on taxes, Obama’s post-election demands contradicted the positions on which he campaigned. Sure he promised higher taxes on “the rich.” But during the campaign he said that he wanted $800 billion from them. As soon as Republican speaker of the House, John Boehner, agreed to raise that amount by eliminating various credits and deductions for high-income taxpayers, Obama announced that he really wanted twice that amount. . . .
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posted by John Lott at 12:33 PM
2 Comments:
Obama is like Phaeton stubornly taking the reins of the Chariot of the Sun in Greek mythology. Attempting something way beyond his ability. Unfortunately Zeus appears to be otherwise occupied or else Obama would be blasted from his throne.
Instead we get to reap what he sows, now and way into the future . . .
Not a Greek tragedy, an AMERICAN TRAGEDY!
Obama is like Phaeton stubornly taking the reins of the Chariot of the Sun in Greek mythology. Attempting something way beyond his ability. Unfortunately Zeus appears to be otherwise occupied or else Obama would be blasted from his throne.
Instead we get to reap what he sows, now and way into the future . . .
Not a Greek tragedy, an AMERICAN TRAGEDY!
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