If Only The Tsar Knew…
Because he was right about the economy, I have given Paul Krugman a pass on his status as an Obama “fan boy”. But this post suggesting that it’s White House aides and not Obama that are the problem, is a bridge too far.
Obama personally selected Joe LIEberman as his “mentor” in the US Senate. Obama personally selected the people around him. Given that they didn’t even let Shirley Sherrod park the car before bombarding her with demands for a resignation, and the many instances of good people being cast aside over trivial matters, Obama knows what the people around him think, and he must approve.
It wasn’t just what Gibbs said, it was the language used: “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon.” That is wingnut language to describe “liberals”, not Democratic language.
People need to withdraw from the Obama культ личности, cult of personality, and see him as the moderate to conservative Republican that his voting record supports.
Of historic note, Tsar Nikolai knew, and the Kazaks were sent to crush the peasants who approached the palace. That was pretty much what happened to the “Bonus Marchers” during the Hoover administration, only General MacArthur used tanks.
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Thanks for the history lesson.
Lest we forget.
Or just never understand what is happening at all.
I’ve got an essay on how GWB thought he was going to be the second Henry VIII going up tomorrow.
Lots of lessons available for us NOW.
S
Kazaks were sent to crush the peasants who approached the palace. That was pretty much what happened to the “Bonus Marchers” during the Hoover administration, only General MacArthur used tanks
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The thought of Obama spoils my coffee every morning, as I am certain any de facto tyrant would. I’m sure I’ve said it before: you don’t have to be a Tsar to pee in my joe.
The tendency of people to pin all of their faith on leaders just amazes me. People are no more than that – people. Some are better behaved than others, but we are all subject to the same failings. One of those failings is for people in power to assume that critics are enemies to be punished, rather than sources of information.
People in power almost always fear and loathe those that they perceive as the lower classes, i.e. people with less power, and get really paranoid if they think that the “lower classes” are coalescing into anything like a united group. Leaders, real leaders, use the people, they don’t hate them.
I saw somewhere a suggestion that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden should switch jobs, but I think the world would be better off if she switched jobs with Obama.
“… but I think the world would be better off if she switched jobs with Obama.”
Some of us thought that during the 2008 primaries… much good it did us.
The Federal government of Germany has proposed and advocates for austerity, but it hasn’t actually started.
The growth is all in the automobile export market. The German auto makers have strong unions and, in the case of Volkswagen, major ownership by the German state of Lower Saxony, and has rejected all of the stupidity of the “free market” morons. They have protected themselves from the equity traders, so they are still capable of doing what they know – build cars.
You can’t build an economy solely on exports, but exports can reduce the pain until domestic demand increases.
Domestic demand was never allowed to reach the nadir of the US in Germany because of the strong social safety net built into the German system. If you want to see what austerity does, look at Ireland and Greece, who lack the comprehensive German safety net.
Dream on and enjoy the depression that your heroes in the Conservative Party are creating for you.
Like most advocating austerity, the horrid Huns advocate austerity for other people, not for themselves :twisted:.
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
Which is why they want to cut Social Security, but not the military industrial complex, or to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire. Pain is for the “small people”.
Given that, looking at my retirement options, I’ll be getting only 20% of my current salary from Social Security max when I finally retire (and I’ve been paying 15% in for the past 20+ years, which is longer than I’ll likely live after retirement), I am baffled as to how anybody could say that Social Security is “overly generous”. I’ve paid a *lot* of money into Social Security/Medicare, and it’s unlikely I’ll ever get that much (inflation-adjusted) money back.
But what the hey, never let reality interfere with a juicy talking point, wot? 😈
Someone has to pay to keep the lights on, and it obviously isn’t going to be the wealthy. That’s what passes for conventional “wisdom” in Washington.