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REVIEW & OUTLOOK
MARCH 3, 2010
Abuse of Power
‘An undemocratic disservice to our people and to the Senate’s institutional role.’
Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A16
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In other words, he’s volunteering Democrats in Congress to march into the fixed bayonets so he can claim an LBJ-level legacy like the Great Society that will be nearly impossible to repeal. This would be an unprecedented act of partisan arrogance that would further mark Democrats as the party of liberal extremism. If they think political passions are bitter now, wait until they pass ObamaCare.
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Or, in passing this, does it cement the doom of the Democrats in 2010 and 2012? Does it kick start a Tea Party revolution that drags the Political Elite from the Chambers of Congress and the Executive to “the metaphorical guillotines of a new French Revolution”. Is Sarah Palin the new Madame Defarge? Ron Paul the Robespierre?
The French Revolution which is a prime example of Gresham’s law of political morality: the bad drives out the good as everyone becomes corrupted while political life becomes not unlike the Hobbesian war of all against all in “a perpetual and restless desire for power, that ceaseth only in death.”
Do we usher in a new political reality where congress critters dare not over-spend? Is this how the USA recovers from the excess spending that rang up terrible deficits and a national debt that impoverishes us all.
One can only hope!
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