In This Dimension

Since about 20 JAN 2009, and increasingly so since the introduction of any of the various “healthcare” plans by Congress, chatter has increased on the Right about turning America socialist. The general argument seems based on the idea that turning America into a socialist state requires some massive legislation about which we the people may complain, and which may or may not be passed, but which Tea Partiers and/or Sen. Brown may be in a position to stop.

It isn’t that hard, and people are deluding themselves when they think so.

All Obama and the Democrats need to do to force the[…]

From the WSJ today, Best Of The Web:

“The plan I’m announcing tonight would meet three basic goals. It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance for those who don’t. And it will slow the growth of health care costs for our families, our businesses, and our government. . . . Now, add it all up, and the plan I’m proposing will cost around $900 billion over 10 years. . . . Most of these costs will be paid for with money already being spent–but spent badly–in the existing health-care system. The plan will not add[…]

So …. China has a few trillion of our debt. It’s becoming (has become?) a national security problem.

Deadbeats in the US are voting en-mass for Democrats, who now pass social welfare and tax & spend policies that ensure a permanent underclass hold on our national government.

National Democrats want to remake the nation in the image of California - utterly bankrupt and failed due to decades of Demo misrule. Just like the national future is looking darker the longer Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Frank, Schumer, Rangel…. stay in power…

Here’s a thought: Recover that $2T in debt China owns by…. selling California to[…]

Here is a startling interactive map, by county, of unemployment in the US as it entered the current recession. It’s based on Dept of Labor figures, starting in Jan 2007 and going through November 2009. It takes only a few seconds to watch.

“Sobering” doesn’t quite get the feeling across after watching it.

The only responses I can think of fall along the lines of OMG, Atlas Shrugged, and the lights are going out.

Once you have viewed this, go read this Reuters story (Reuters’ pulled it down after Obama whined to them, but it’s still up in several places on the web; this link[…]

Rarely - too rarely - a headline is created that concisely and accurately summarizes the millions of words being written and spoken by thousands of others regarding a topic of widespread interest.

This is that headline. I laughed as hard as I have in weeks, if not months…. It is absolutely perfect.

Many many articles and columns have been written on The Failure of the Messiah to understand what is going on, and the consequences of his seemingly demented demand for something America doesn’t want, and his complete inability to change course. (Leopard, spots, etc.)

Here is one of the best on the real meaning of what’s happened and the toll on his next three years.

So in the WSJ today a column that Barry, having been resoundingly told we DON’T LIKE HIS AGENDA, now will toughen his tone, not do a “reset” and keep on pushing his radical agenda.

Obama is your standard leftist adolescent. You don’t like what I just did? Watch while I do it ten times more! Nyah Nyah Nyah.

Never had to get a job. Pampered through years of schooling he probably didn’t qualify for (don’t argue, show me the transcripts and LSATs)

I can’t seriously believe we have to have 3 more years of this pre-adolescent irresponsible naif as president.

And we have Democrats,[…]

We have a problem in earnings disparity that, it seems, the market is not able to resolve on its own, but that nonetheless is bad for the country.

I believe strongly in the private sector, but just as regulation would have prevented the current financial meltdown, this kind of regulation - which is not capping pay, just forcing the private sector to be reasonable when we ALL know it’s gone ‘way past reasonable in the past few decades ($500,000,000 to Michael Milliken for ONE year?) - would help to ameliorate seriously ridiculous earnings disparity. This would be good for our Republic.

This[…]

You know how sometimes one short, well-written sentence can encapsulate an entire issue?

Here’s a phrase - just a part of a sentence - from the Telegraph (UK) today that does just that.

“… while Mr Obama seems far more interested in squandering taxpayers’ money on America’s largely pointless and sick car industry.”

Can’t improve on that.

This is the most comprehensive, yet concise, column on Obama that I have seen.

Anatomy of a Failing Presidency

By Gazette Staff Writer — Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt

Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we’ve seen several failed presidencies–led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait– they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in[…]