Wednesday, March 31, 2010
This rush into health-care "reform" reminds me of...
...the rush into the Iraqi war. We had no choice in the matter, it was a done deal, forces beyond our control, it was out of our hands. I feel like with Bush and now Obama no president represents me anymore, the independent conservative along with independents of other stripes who are supposed to swing elections. Bush was a polarizing president, Obama even more so and it's like all you can do is sit on the sidelines and watch the show go by. By signing that final version of the health-care bill yesterday Obama has also in one swipe of the pen federalized the whole student-loan industry. At what point in time will we stop saying this is not socialism? In both cases we paid dearly, the one in lives lost and the other a debt problem to hand down to future generations. To be as nonpartisan as I can about it Obama has none of the virtues I am looking for in a leader: deliberation, reflection, nonpartisanship and the rest of the statesmanlike qualities. Then again neither did Bush and that old old conspiracy theory that the money-masters are really in charge of the world well that's not so radical anymore. So fight on Tea-Partiers but you're really the flipside of the liberals who were against going into Iraq. If something's gonna happen it's gonna happen, there's a reason for it. Call it the Matrix of Politics, you don't even know you're in it.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
What irks me is that those on the left who said Bush was arrogant now have absolutely no trouble with Obama being the same way.
ReplyDeleteWhat's more is that the federal government's actual job is to protect us and Bush was doing that, but Obama is making up his own rules, the Constitution be damned.
ReplyDeleteBeth said...
ReplyDeleteObama is making up his own rules, the Constitution be damned.
Exactly
"If something's gonna happen it's gonna happen, there's a reason for it. Call it the Matrix of Politics, you don't even know you're in it." Yep, politics..been weird since the
ReplyDelete'founding fathers'. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, both officers in the revolutionary army, both political operators
par shifty. Seven years prior to their duel in 1804, Hamilton challenged James Monroe (later pres) to a duel, and Burr talked him out of it. Hamilton was confronted by an angry crowd for defending Jay's treaty and challenged the whole dang crowd to a duel. Politics..nuthin changes.
Historically, 1804 was better noted for the start of the Lewis &
Clark expedition, the ratification of the 12th Amendment and New Jersey being the last northern state to outlaw slavery. But the
'matrix of politics' got the 1804headlines that two bigtime politicos ended their careers, one dead, the other in shame....
BB-Idaho said...
ReplyDelete"If something's gonna happen it's gonna happen, there's a reason for it. Call it the Matrix of Politics, you don't even know you're in it."
Reminds me of a little guy with a funny mustache.
RW, BB quoted Z-Man's interesting commentary above. But, I agree..politics produced the lil
ReplyDeleteguy with the funny mustache. Politics also led to his suicide April 30, 1945, still
blaming the Jews. Z-man stands
vindicated....
I think the trouble here with mainstream conservatives is that they have become a kind of pro-war movement and that's not a good thing, won't rope in other independents to our way of thinking. Let's face it the main or even sole rationale for going into Iraq in the first place was those phantom WMD's and so it really is time for mainstream conservatives to admit it wasn't our best moment. In fact that's a good thing, we can grow from it but at least admit it.
ReplyDeleteThe Matrix of Politics, it's another way of saying I subscribe to the conspiratorial view of History. Put it this way, we were going into Iraq regardless, it was a done deal. We were gonna get health-care "reform", that was a done deal. It's like when they wanna build a shopping mall and the citizens are against it and sign petitions and hold public hearings but the dang thing happens anyway. All the Matrix theory says is there's a reason for this, there are forces at work and as someone once said there are no accidents in history (memory a little vague right now on who that someone was).
ReplyDelete