In this item from The New York Times, Ross Douthat admits that Obama’s first term has been a failure. For the American people the question is therefore, do you want to give this administration a Do-Over on the assumption that they will get things right the second time around? Personally I didn’t want to give the Obama-Fuhrer even one chance because, like many on the right, I could see in advance what a disaster this President was going to be.
So of course I don’t see any real reason to want four more years of this abomination. Obama is a dedicated socialist ideologue who has no interest in changing his views or his actions. He is unwilling to see any other truth but the one he believes in. He will not change or grow or learn on the job. He will be just the same at the end of his term as he was at the beginning. So there is no reason to think that things will be any different if we give him another. That’s one of the reasons that he should be turned out of office in 2012.
A week after President Obama took the oath of office, Alice Rivlin, budget chief to President Bill Clinton, testified before a Congress that was about to consider sweeping stimulus legislation. In her remarks, Rivlin voiced her support for a swift and substantial federal intervention to prop up the sagging economy. But she offered lawmakers three warnings as well.
The first warning was about the design of the stimulus. The ideal anti-recession package, Rivlin told Congress, would include aid to state governments, extended unemployment benefits, money for genuinely “shovel ready” projects and a payroll tax holiday. But she urged Congress to resist the temptation to combine these kinds of short-term recession-fighting measures with a larger and more costly investment in energy, education and infrastructure. Trying to rush a long-term spending package through in an atmosphere of crisis, she cautioned, would only guarantee that its contents would be poorly designed, and much of its spending wasted.
