Newsbusters.org notes another example of Obama’s liberalism with an inhuman face. In a January interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, which no one seems to have noted until now, Obama boasts that his policies would produce bankruptcies:
If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.
Unlike Obama’s throwing his aunt under the bus, this cannot be explained away as politically expedient. An American Coal Foundation chart from a few years ago shows that the 10 biggest coal-producing states include the key swingers of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado and Indiana.
Clearly Obama is anything but a soft touch. In fact, his blasé attitude about deporting his beloved aunt and bankrupting fellow Americans is downright chilling. Maybe a period of heartless liberalism is a needed corrective after eight years of compassionate conservatism. But here’s the big question: Would Obama be as brutal in defending America’s interests as he is in pandering to xenophobes and global warmists?
E.J.’s ‘Middleman’
The Washington Post’s left-liberal columnist E.J. Dionne sums up the tax debate as follows:
For years, Republicans have argued that the way to help struggling working people is to give more money to the wealthy. Obama is saying that we should cut out the middleman and help working people directly. My hunch is that Obama’s argument will prevail, and that conservatives will then work overtime to try to deny the judgment that the people have rendered.
Of course what conservatives and Republicans really argue is that high marginal tax rates suppress economic growth, while low ones encourage growth, which in turn creates jobs.
Dionne’s description, though, is worse than tendentious. It’s downright Orwellian. According to him, to tax people less is to “give” them money--as if the money never belonged to them. When the government increases taxes on some people so as to write checks to others, in Dionne’s world that is “cutting out the middleman"--the “middleman” apparently being the productive economy, not the bureaucrats who administer the redistribution schemes of Dionne’s dreams.
We could be in for a long few years.
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