It's a gloomy time for conservatives, after the Obama reelection and all. And it's doubly discouraging to experience his flat out meanness, expressed the other day when he bad-mouthed Congress.
Sorry, Mr. President, that's not how we do things here. We the People, and our representatives in the commentariat, get to do the line about Congress being the only native American criminal class. You are supposed to be working with Congress.
But think of this. Things are not well in Liberal-land. Evidence? The bad-tempered op-ed by Louis Michael Seidman, a constitutional law prof, in The New York Times "Let's Give Up on the Constitution." This worthy practitioner of deep thinking has come to consider that the constitution is "evil".
Plenty.
Think about it. Back in 2009 liberals had no notion that they would be where they are in 2013, with embarrassing fiscal cliffs and a Republican House. They thought they would sweep all before them with their grand plans. Recession? Give it a whiff of stimulus! Health care? Implement the obvious specific, universal health care. Global warming? Green energy and cap and trade.
Yet here we are, with a sluggish economy, trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, and liberalism in such a mess that it must descend to faux crises every year to keep the spending spigot open.
No wonder liberals are annoyed. Why, the problem can't be liberalism. It must be the antiquated "system." Why, did you know that the constitution requires that "the Constitution requires that revenue measures originate in the lower chamber. Why should anyone care?" There is worse. Imagine this:
Then our worthy professor goes off on a riff showing that government officials have been ignoring the constitution since the founding. So why shouldn't we do the same?
Think about this. We conservatives are rightly outraged at the tax increase on wealthier Americans. Because high-income Americans are not the idle rich, reposing in their Manhattan duplexes, but productive Americans building businesses that create jobs. That's what the rich do these days, in case you haven't been paying attention (Manhattan duplex dwellers excepted).
Now look on the bright side. Democrats are agreeing to lock in permanently the Bush tax rates for 99 percent of Americans. But here we are still with our trillion dollar deficits. Something has got to give, sooner or later. And it will involve Democrats voting, this year or next year or some year, to raise taxes on the middle class.
Then there is spending, still out of control. The fact is that something will have to give on entitlements, sooner or later. Guess who gets screwed then. Democratic voters.
I like to say that tactically, the Democrats of the 2000s have been brilliant. They have kept Republicans on the back foot for ten years. But what good has it done them? The spending budget is out of control and there is now no way out except spending cuts and/or tax increases on the middle class. They have created the Obamacare monster that women are going to hate as it cuts into their expectations for unlimited health care. Strategically, the Democrats are strung out with vulnerable flanks everywhere.
Let's cut out the moaning, conservatives. Liberals are in an impossible position, and it's only going to get worse. The liberal prof's article on the constitution is merely an early "tell." Look for liberals to be breaking away from President Obama by the 2014 midterms. And then it is Katy bar the door.
And remember: the midterm in a president's second term is usually a real loser for the president's party. By 2015 the Republicans could have both houses of Congress for the two years running up to the next presidential election. Just like the Democrats in 2007.
Sorry, Mr. President, that's not how we do things here. We the People, and our representatives in the commentariat, get to do the line about Congress being the only native American criminal class. You are supposed to be working with Congress.
But think of this. Things are not well in Liberal-land. Evidence? The bad-tempered op-ed by Louis Michael Seidman, a constitutional law prof, in The New York Times "Let's Give Up on the Constitution." This worthy practitioner of deep thinking has come to consider that the constitution is "evil".
As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.What is the world has a liberal law prof got to complain about after the Supreme Court just passed on Obamacare and after Obama just won reelection?
Plenty.
Think about it. Back in 2009 liberals had no notion that they would be where they are in 2013, with embarrassing fiscal cliffs and a Republican House. They thought they would sweep all before them with their grand plans. Recession? Give it a whiff of stimulus! Health care? Implement the obvious specific, universal health care. Global warming? Green energy and cap and trade.
Yet here we are, with a sluggish economy, trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, and liberalism in such a mess that it must descend to faux crises every year to keep the spending spigot open.
No wonder liberals are annoyed. Why, the problem can't be liberalism. It must be the antiquated "system." Why, did you know that the constitution requires that "the Constitution requires that revenue measures originate in the lower chamber. Why should anyone care?" There is worse. Imagine this:
Imagine that after careful study a government official — say, the president or one of the party leaders in Congress — reaches a considered judgment that a particular course of action is best for the country. Suddenly, someone bursts into the room with new information: a group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves might have disagreed with this course of action. Is it even remotely rational that the official should change his or her mind because of this divination?Oh the horror! Mind you, I can't think of a worse way of deciding the affairs of a nation than just knuckling under to the "considered judgment" of a high "government official."
Then our worthy professor goes off on a riff showing that government officials have been ignoring the constitution since the founding. So why shouldn't we do the same?
Think about this. We conservatives are rightly outraged at the tax increase on wealthier Americans. Because high-income Americans are not the idle rich, reposing in their Manhattan duplexes, but productive Americans building businesses that create jobs. That's what the rich do these days, in case you haven't been paying attention (Manhattan duplex dwellers excepted).
Now look on the bright side. Democrats are agreeing to lock in permanently the Bush tax rates for 99 percent of Americans. But here we are still with our trillion dollar deficits. Something has got to give, sooner or later. And it will involve Democrats voting, this year or next year or some year, to raise taxes on the middle class.
Then there is spending, still out of control. The fact is that something will have to give on entitlements, sooner or later. Guess who gets screwed then. Democratic voters.
I like to say that tactically, the Democrats of the 2000s have been brilliant. They have kept Republicans on the back foot for ten years. But what good has it done them? The spending budget is out of control and there is now no way out except spending cuts and/or tax increases on the middle class. They have created the Obamacare monster that women are going to hate as it cuts into their expectations for unlimited health care. Strategically, the Democrats are strung out with vulnerable flanks everywhere.
Let's cut out the moaning, conservatives. Liberals are in an impossible position, and it's only going to get worse. The liberal prof's article on the constitution is merely an early "tell." Look for liberals to be breaking away from President Obama by the 2014 midterms. And then it is Katy bar the door.
And remember: the midterm in a president's second term is usually a real loser for the president's party. By 2015 the Republicans could have both houses of Congress for the two years running up to the next presidential election. Just like the Democrats in 2007.
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