DECEMBER 24, 2008

In classic Paranoid Style in American Politics, I cannot help but think that all this "centrist" preliminary staging by POTUS elect Obama is just so much political trickery Obama and Peeved Progressives. How does someone, whose entire ideological history is from the "New Left" school of American Politics, suddenly become the poster president for idealized Centrism? The last 3 months of George W. Bush's presidency must go down in American history as the single biggest Government attack on both private property and the rule of law, yet it has happened with hardly a whimper from the American public. Perhaps this unexpected and unforeseen move shocked even Obama. After all, precedents have now been established for almost any action by Government. He just needs to turn the electricity on and the "Bushian" FrankenGovernment will be set in motion. While I have large reserves of "good feelings" for Bush based on his reaction in NYC after 9/11, they will eventually run out, if they have not already. His September 25th, 2008 television address to the nation is a "speech that will live in infamy" President Bush Speaks On The Economy.

(posted at 9:44 am by Mike Rulle)

    

Holman Jenkins locks into a heightened negative outlook in his Get Ready for a Lost Decade editorial. While my emotional attitude is almost identical to his, there has to be a better way to encourage the collective self to get out of this "destined for doom" funk that has consumed the country. I agree that watching the Government in action is painful as they promote policies with virtually no plausible premise for success. Equally painful is watching Barney Frank lustily discuss that this is the greatest opportunity to do good since the New Deal. The last refuge of the hopeful fantasist, perhaps, might be that private business can succeed despite the best efforts of Government to take from all to give to a few. After all, like greed on Wall Street, isn't corruption and inadequacy in Government just another "universal constant", present in times both good and bad? Need this be the excuse to just give up and die? Where are those ghostly, ephemeral "animal spirits" of Keynes?

(posted at 9:02 am by Mike Rulle)

    

Here is a good one. We now discover that Caroline Kennedy is the secret power behind the Kennedy family. Is that supposed to be a good thing? Caroline Kennedy: "No Drama" Before "No Drama" Was Cool Author Giordano refers to her as "Attorney Kennedy", to highlight that she is a lawyer, I suppose. Is that too supposed to be a good thing? "Caroline, at the helm of the Kennedy library, has served as the true executive director of the family and all its political and policy interests. She has also been the family's ambassador nationwide and around the world: the one that attended funerals and other matters of statesmanship on the family's behalf. That she generally avoided the spotlight in doing so, and always avoided personal scandal - a particularly difficult challenge for anybody named Kennedy - is testimony to her skill and finesse at the political game". She attended funerals, avoided personal scandal, and committed "other matters of statesmanship", all while avoiding the spotlight. Wow. Why does she want the spotlight now? This is the most ridiculous article conceivable justifying someone's appointment to Senator of the United States.

(posted at 8:23 am by Mike Rulle)