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Now Comes Thermidor?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:41 am
by native
"...Congress has a one-word response to the ... scores of trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities:
'More.'..."
-George Will, Real Clear Politics
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"And donks, they praised the Chosen One,
Who this great fight did win."
"But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth non-Obamakins.
"Why that I cannot tell," said he,
"But 'twas a famous victory."
-- with apologies to Robert Southey
Re: Now Comes Thermidor?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:43 am
by AZGrizFan
The accounting legerdemain spun to make this seem affordable -- e.g., cuts (to Medicare) and taxes (on high-value insurance plans) that will never happen-- is Enronesque.
As America's teetering tower of unkeepable promises grows, so does the weight of government, in taxes and mandates that limit investments and discourage job creation. America's dynamism, and hence upward social mobility, will slow, as the economy becomes what the party of government wants it to be -- increasingly dependent on government-created demand.
Truth.
Re: Now Comes Thermidor?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:56 am
by OL FU
I read this ed earlier and this has to be one of the hardest to read paragraphs I have ever attempted.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes. Because logrolling is how legislative coalitions are cobbled together in a continental nation, the auction by which reluctant House Democrats were purchased has been disillusioning only to sentimentalists with illusions about society's stock of disinterestedness.
Re: Now Comes Thermidor?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:49 pm
by travelinman67
OL FU wrote:I read this ed earlier and this has to be one of the hardest to read paragraphs I have ever attempted.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes. Because logrolling is how legislative coalitions are cobbled together in a continental nation, the auction by which reluctant House Democrats were purchased has been disillusioning only to sentimentalists with illusions about society's stock of disinterestedness.
Only the disillusioned are concerned about political quid pro quo.
Re: Now Comes Thermidor?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:28 pm
by houndawg
OL FU wrote:I read this ed earlier and this has to be one of the hardest to read paragraphs I have ever attempted.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes. Because logrolling is how legislative coalitions are cobbled together in a continental nation, the auction by which reluctant House Democrats were purchased has been disillusioning only to sentimentalists with illusions about society's stock of disinterestedness.
Not even the convulsive projectile jabberings that belch forth from T'man when he's off his meds on a twenty paragraph screed are that opaque.
Re: Now Comes Thermidor?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:56 pm
by CID1990
houndawg wrote:OL FU wrote:I read this ed earlier and this has to be one of the hardest to read paragraphs I have ever attempted.
Not even the convulsive projectile jabberings that belch forth from T'man when he's off his meds on a twenty paragraph screed are that opaque.
He must be very intelligent; he rambles on with multi-syllabic words and lofty, running phrases.
Or, at least that is the criteria for most of the Obamites.
Re: Now Comes Thermidor?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:04 pm
by D1B
Re: Now Comes Thermidor?
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:41 pm
by kalm
Re: Now Comes Thermidor?
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:55 am
by houndawg
CID1990 wrote:houndawg wrote:
Not even the convulsive projectile jabberings that belch forth from T'man when he's off his meds on a twenty paragraph screed are that opaque.
He must be very intelligent; he rambles on with multi-syllabic words and lofty, running phrases.
Yeah, I know, I'm just poking fun at T'man because he's a homey. Like in football practice when you want to hit your friends with your best licks......
Re: Now Comes Thermidor?
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:10 am
by native
CID1990 wrote:houndawg wrote:
Not even the convulsive projectile jabberings that belch forth from T'man when he's off his meds on a twenty paragraph screed are that opaque.
He must be very intelligent; he rambles on with multi-syllabic words and lofty, running phrases.
Or, at least that is the criteria for most of the Obamites.
+1 for effectively dissing Obamites and an eastern elitist conservative in the same sentence!
