http://www.newsweek.com/id/232167?GT1=43002
“Obama is accused of being too radical, but he’s been governing from the middle for a year. So why all the anger? Because he’s leading with his head, not his heart.”
Wow.
Let’s take a look at that track record:
- Financial crisis
- Replace banking leaders with leaders who know nothing about banks? Check
- Remove incentives for banking leaders to perform? Check
- Create exception for the two government-run banks who actually did the most to cause the crisis (except Congress) – Check
- Support populist position to permanently keep those incentives out? Check
- Force banks to take loans they didn’t need and to pay interest on those loans? Check
- Impose tax on those banks to recoup money already paid back (with interest)? Check
- US Auto Industry
- Engineer take0ver of 2 US auto companies? Check
- Force illegal bankruptcy procedures to give ownership to government and large Obama campaign donors? Check
- Exert so much oppressive control over these companies that leadership is impossible to find? Check
- Economic Stimulus
- Spend over $1 trillion in stimulus sold as near-term stimulus, the bulk of which doesn’t start for 2 years? Check
- Spend over 80% of said money spent so far on saving state government employees’ jobs and not on stimulating economy? Check
- Moral Issues
- Force citizens to pay for abortions, even if they don’t agree with it? Check
- Condemn the liberation of free speech by the Supreme Court? Check
- Force pharmacists who don’t agree with birth control or abortive medicine to fill prescriptions for it? Check
If that’s governing from your head, I pray he never tries to govern with his heart.