In a moment of candor, Rahm Emanuel confirmed what many had thought all along - the Obama administration was taking advantage of the crisis to push through their long standing agenda:
"Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before."
The $81 billion for Medicaid, $20 billion for food stamps and increased subsidies for Amtrak and the National Endowment for the Arts may be worthwhile, but they certainly do not constitute an economic stimulus.
Nationalizing a large segment of the health care sector may be worth while, but Obama's rational that it will "help bring down the budget deficit" is either an outright lie or a complete delusion.
This is straight out of Bush's 9-11 play-book: use a national crisis as a pretext to quickly push through a long standing agenda, while virtually eliminating public debate and oversight.
In the aftermath of 9-11, to question or debate the formation of The Department of Homeland Security and the invasion of iraq incited accusations of "being soft on terror."
And in our current economic crisis, those who question the almost trillion dollar government expansion are accused of "not caring about the economically distressed" and supporting "an unfettered free market."
I suspect that the great writer Mark Twain had the Bush and Obama administrations in mind when he stated: No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310466514522309.html
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