Thursday, February 26, 2009

Daniel Henninger: A Radical Presidency

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123561433557778201.html

He sounds very, very worried. We now know for sure that the President is just as liberal as his voting record indicated. He is less and less the empty vessel into which one can read any motives one wishes and revealed more and more to be a typical left-wing liberal. I think Henninger is right to be worried.

Highlights:
He told Congress he does not believe in bigger government. I don't believe that. It's becoming clear that the private sector is going to be demoted into a secondary role in the U.S. system. This isn't socialism, but it is not the system we've had since the early 1980s. It would be a reordered economic system, its direction chosen and guided by Mr. Obama and his inner circle.

Gov. Bobby Jindal's postspeech reply did not come close to recognizing the gauntlet Mr. Obama has thrown down to the opposition. Unless the GOP can discover a radical message of its own to distinguish it from the president's, it should prepare to live under Mr. Obama's radicalism for at least a generation.

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