Daniel Henninger’s column in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal is a must read. Would the Founders Love Obamacare? I’d say the answer would be a resounding “no.”
The left-wing critics are right: The rage is not about health care. They are also right that similar complaints about big government were heard during the New Deal and the Great Society, and the sky didn’t fall.
But what if this time the sky is falling—on them.
What if after more than a century of growth in the national government, starting with the Progressive Era, the American people are starting to push back. Not just the tea partiers or the 13 state attorneys general seeking protection under the 10th Amendment and the Commerce Clause. But something bigger than that.
The Democratic left, its pundits and academics criticizing the legal challenges to ObamaCare seem to be arguing that their version of our political structure is too big to change.
That’s not true. The American people can and do change the nation’s collective mind on the ordering of our political system. The civil rights years of the 1960s is the most well-known modern example. (The idea that resistance to Mr. Obama’s health plan is rooted in racist resentment of equal rights is beyond the pale, even by current standards of political punditry.)
(Make sure you read the whole thing.)
The American people clearly see a government that’s out of control. Do most people care about “settled law” if it means they’ll be screwed because some former judges made some bad decisions? As Smitty pointed out, how can any right thinking person believe “settled law [is] tantamount to an amendment to the Constitution?” Unless you’re of the progressive mindset, you probably don’t think that way.
The Tea Parties are just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface is the still silent majority. They’re just as angry as the tea party people, they just don’t have the time or the energy to join in. It doesn’t mean they aren’t going to make darn sure they get to the polls in the next election.
Henninger explains in this video.
Via memeorandum
Video via Breitbart
On nearly every liberal website I hear over and over and over again that Christ is a liberal. That we are unchristians for being republicans and that the Teabaggers are racists and bigots.
Its non stop. Im now hearing a new alinsky word……REGRESSIVE….its a push back against the word PROGRESSIVE.
Progressives are getting desperate as they know their power is slipping away. They desperately want cap and tax or some version thereof. Serious business regulations and cap and tax. Immigration reform would be nice in 2011 but for now they will settle on cap and tax.
That is why Obama offered up offshore drilling. Thats next in the progressives wet dream land.
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What bothers me is that by the time the drones see clear
evidence of what is really going on, the Left will have
already consolidated all the power they need, and nobody
will be able to roll it back. We will be broke and
dependent, and looking for solace in Drink, just as so
many others have done. The entire left wing machines needs
to be ground down to size – a very tiny size so we can
put a fence around them and charge admission.
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There is a reason they are called the SILENT majority.
I predict the closer we get to the election the more shrill things get. Once the Dems get body slammed the MSM will be like: wtf???? Then they will split and either be mad or say “Why of course this happened, we knew it all the time.”
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