From Pajamas Media:
April 20, 2009
The Obama Administration: That 70’s Show
[Obama is] expanding government and running up a frightful tab. The debt is piling up, the Fed has the printing press going ...regulatory schemes to increase energy prices and thereby decrease energy usage are now in fashion. ...unemployment is edging higher and higher. ...the national rate is 8.5%, and more states will be joining those with double digit unemployment in the months ahead. ...the prospect of the infamous combination of high inflation and unemployment. ...But it is on the national security front that the resemblance to the 1970s, and Jimmy Carter’s presidency specifically, is uncanny.
[Obama's] modus operandi appears to be to apologize to and ingratiate himself with allies and enemies of the U.S. He bows to the Saudi king and does the grip-and-grin routine with Hugo Chavez. He sits through a scathing rant from the likes of Daniel Ortega without objection. He sends a TV valentine to the mullahs in Iran, apologizing for Americans’ supposed indifference to Muslims. With no promise of reciprocation, he lifts bans on travel and money transfers to Cuba. ...
[Obama's] is a foreign policy which Jimmy Carter would approve of -- minus the emphasis on human rights. Obama appears convinced that by denigrating American interests and contributions (both economic and military) we will get back in the good graces of world opinion. ...slice and dice the defense budget, avoid condemnation of the world’s bad actors and guarantee that they face no penalty for their conduct; we have completed the picture of America in retreat.
[Obama] now casts aside policies which promote economic growth, domestic energy production and military readiness in favor of a hodge-podge of government-centric programs, debasement of our currency, and displays of international weakness...
The silver lining for the Republicans: the 1970s were the prelude to an intellectual and political renaissance for their party. ...the insistence by Democrats then on pursuing misguided policies and the Democratic president’s failure to assert American power spurred popular unrest. That in turn gave birth to the Reagan Revolution.
"The good news for Republicans: after the 1970s came Ronald Reagan."
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Reagan may have been elected to the Presidency "after the 1970's", but you could see him coming a long way off. From the Wikipedia account of Ronald Wilson Reagan:
ReplyDeleteAfter delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and election in 1980.I don't see anyone of Reagan's stature anywhere on the political horizon, much less in a position to challenge Obi-One for the White House in 2012. Hopefully that will change, but the Left didn't get to their present position overnight, and to think that Conservatism is going to unseat them quickly is naive at best. Now, that said, the more pain they inflict on the American people, the easier it's going to be, and, unless policies that have NEVER worked before are miraculously successful this time around, a whole lot of people are in for a whole lot of pain over the next few years. It was called "the misery index" under Carter, and it was aptly named.