Another one from the New York Puke

Some are born ignorant, some have ignorance thrust upon them...then we have the NY Times.

I would specify the editorial pages from the news sections, but what's the difference.  Really.

Now it has been almost three years ago since B Hussein Obama made his speech in Chicago about the rise of the oceans and other tripe.  But the end was interesting.

...This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment.

This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

Now let's look at the results of the Obama reign of error.  A quadrupling of the annual deficits and a 50% increase in the national debt.  And for this treasure?  Almost doubling of the unemployment rate.  Nationalization of the two of the big three auto companies, elimination of three market companies (Pontiac, Hummer and Saturn) with the associated loss of tens of thousands of jobs.  Federal economic policy through the EPA and other agencies funneling American tax money (Actually Chinese money...we're broke) to green companies so they can pay their execs a fortune, declare bankruptcy and leave the taxpayers with the bill.  I wonder if the question "Does anyone want to buy these things?" ever came up.   The federal government intentionally lowering the value of the dollar while raising fuel and food prices, then taking these two factors our of the calculation of inflation and asking "What?....what inflation?"

Naturally, it's George Bush's fault.

Even for the iditorial pages of the Times this is bad.

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By BILL KELLER

...The decline in Obama’s political fortunes, the Great Disappointment, can be attributed to four main factors: the intractable legacy bequeathed by George W. Bush; Republican resistance amounting to sabotage; the unrealistic expectations and inevitable disenchantment of some of the president’s supporters; and, to be sure, the man himself.

Obama inherited a country in such distress that his Inaugural Address alluded to George Washington at Valley Forge, marking “this winter of our hardship.” Unfunded wars, supply-side deficits, twin housing and banking crises enabled by an orgy of regulatory permissiveness — that was the legacy Obama assumed. In our political culture if you inherit a problem and don’t fix it, you own it. So at some point it became the popular wisdom that Iraq and Afghanistan were “Obama’s wars,” and that the recession had become “Obama’s economy.” Given the systemic burden Bush left for his successor, that judgment seems to me to be less about fair play than about short memories. But this is what passes for accountability in our system. And the Republicans have been relentlessly effective at rebranding every failing of the Bush administration as Obama’s fault. The historical truth, therefore, is no longer a viable political shelter for the Obama presidency. At best we can hope it serves as a caution against those who preach a return to the indiscriminate tax cuts and regulatory free-for-all that helped produce our lingering mess in the first place.

I've always loved the term "unfunded war".  As if there was ever a funded war.  We have always had to borrow money to pay for a war.  If you want the greatest example see the War on Poverty.  This is one I haven't heard, "supply side deficits".  As always it's not the fact these people piss away trillions every year but you actually want to keep you money...oh what was I thinking....it's their money and they will allocate you money as the government decides you need it.  But again we see the real ideological blind spot.  Nothing is every Obama's fault.  When I was Army company commander the simple rule was you were given a three month grace period before you were really at fault.  With B Hussein three years and it's not enough.  

Another toxic legacy of the Bush years is an angry conservative populism, in which government is viewed as tyranny and compromise as apostasy. The Tea Party faction has captured not only the Republican primary process, but to a large extent the national conversation and the legislative machinery...

Bush left office in January 09 and he was a disappointment to many conservatives in this country.  The TEA Party came up almost a year later after the Stimulus Bill, aka  trillion dollar waste.  But this moron seems to forget the angry liberal populism out there...e.g. The union fight in Wisconsin.  

..Jonathan Chait pointed out in The Times Magazine recently that the liberal repudiation of Obama “wishes away any constraints upon his power.”...It also undervalues some real accomplishments, achieved despite a brutally divided government. Lost in the shouting is the fact that Obama pulled the country back from the brink of depression; signed a health care reform law that expands coverage, preserves choice and creates a mechanism for controlling costs; engineered a fairly stringent financial regulatory reform; and authorized the risky mission that got Osama bin Laden...

No the man who pulled the country from the abyss was George Bush, not BO.  The health car law was a slap in the face of the Americam people.  They never wanted it and hopefully we get some real conservatives who will neuter it.  I will agree on the last point.  He did say get UBL...a decision Bubba Clinton would never do.

It is partly a failure of presidential communications that Republicans have succeeded in parodying each of his accomplishments, turning “stimulus” into an expletive, portraying “Obamacare” as socialized medicine and attacking the Dodd-Frank financial reform as an assault on capitalism.

Yes the stimulus is a lie.  Things like that have never worked and never will.  Obamacare is a means to the end, socialized medicine.   Dodd-Frank...enough said.

What a waste of electrons in this article.  The bad things he really believes it.  Reminds me of a reason for term limits.  "Politicians are like diapers.  They should be changed often and for the same reason.". The same can be written for the writers at major papers.