The Super Committee Fails
Cheap political gains for the Left were always the objective.
Cheap political gains for the Left were always the objective.
Failure to reach a deal could be catastrophic for national security.
To read the complete Lincoln quote, it appears that he viewed the role of government as limited to certain tasks that individuals cannot effectively undertake themselves. Yet President Obama cherry-picks and paraphrases to give Lincoln’s words a seemingly innocuous communitarian spin. Why is this significant, rather than just mere nitpicking? The answer lies in the fact that Obama used a tried and true Alinskyite tactic in his speech: wrapping communitarian and statist ideas in language that invokes the country’s great leaders of the past. It’s a time-honored tradition among radicals like Alinsky and Obama.
The level of red ink just seems inexorably to rise.
How will our government pay all its debts?
Democrats trample on the constitutional process.