Monday, August 04, 2008

Jane Ahlin says - Alert the Media, It's all George Bush's Fault

Jane Ahlin, I grew up with her. She is a very nice lady. Her dad was my Boy Scout leader. BUT, she is so wrong so often I have given up trying to correct her. As she has with me. We live in sort of an ideological detente. Till now.

Jane writes for the Forum in Fargo. She just wrote a very stereotypical left tipping column that I have to answer. You can read it all here.

Here are the things I want to respond to. Since I have no other fair Forum to do, Say Anything and it’s hundred thousand global readers (along with my lowly blog) will have to be my platform.

Jane Says that she just spent a wonderful tranquil weekend with her family. I’ll bet they didn’t think one time about an attack of an Islamic radical. That was a long time ago and the “Failed” policies of the Bush administration have contributed to the sense of peace and security she enjoyed. Not that she would say anything about that in appreciation.

Then Jane Says:
The country....... general sense of frustration is unfocused and seems to render us disengaged rather than determined in the pursuit of change.

What about OBAMA. Isn’t he the candidate of Change? Isn’t he going to solve all the problems just like the whiz bang kids of the all Democrat congress was going to at the end of 2006? Guess not.

we’re stuck as long as George Bush is president.

I guess the Democrat majority in Congress have all dropped dead. Oh, Wait, no they only look that way. What a victim mentality. We would do something except we can’t because of …………………

Sounds like the mentality coming out of Jeremiah Wright’s Church. It’s all ___________ Fault. Fill in the blank. Whitey, Uncle Tom, Bush, Cheney ad nauseaum

incompetence of the Bush administration in all things economic. ideology is no substitute for reasoned public policy.

Wow, there is a classic stoves calling kettles black. If the democrat party had a clue in economics I would rest well. Unfortunately with few exceptions there is not a whit of economic common sense among them. Barney Frank would be a notable exception and even, Obama is for the most part starting to talk with some level of intelligence on economics. Of course that is going to go over badly with the loons at Huffpo and Kos. They can’t even balance a checkbook. If he decides to talk with common sense they will go nuttier than they already are.

In fact, were the economy not in such dire straits, it might be amusingly ironic that the bailout of the big financial institutions – Bear Sterns, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac – echoed the New Deal mentality conservatives love to hate.
Here Jane gets it right. These bail outs and the economic stimulus plan were among the dumber things that have happened. Bush signed them and in that I am disappointed. But let’s see, what group of dummies came up with all that?

Our children and their children will sort out the ways we were shamed with patriotism and corralled by fear into letting this presidential administration play fast and loose with the constitution.

I would love to ask Jane what constitutional right has she personally lost in the last 8 years that she is missing. I can’t think of any. Getting on a plane with an Uzzi is more difficult but I guess that’s OK.

the downward trajectory of educational achievement
I guess it’s right to blame the President because we sure can’t blame the education lobby, teachers unions, corrupt administration, failed public education and local government. I mean everyone knows that the President comes
RIGHT IN THE CLASSROOM AND RIPS THE BOOKS OUT OF INNOCENT CHILDREN’S HANDS. Never mind that Vouchers and Charter Schools allow kids to get actual educations and who is it that opposes that working strategy?

“It’s not globalization or immigration or computers per se that widen inequality. It’s the skills gap.”

OK, I guess parents have no responsibility at all in this equation. Never mind that Chinese and Jewish kids do very well on all these educational venues in the USA. White and Black kids not so much. How much of this lack of skill is cultural and how much is parental. We have a parenting gap, not an educational gap.

I would like to ask my friend one thing, Other than the arrogance of thinking that after Bush is gone you (we) will have to
“Clean this mess up”, what are some actual specific things you would do if you were King or Queen. I mean specific implementable policies that you would specifically suggest that are not being done now.

Of course the classic knee jerk liberal pap is defeat George Bush. Oh, wait, he’s not running. Not that that ever stopped anyone from running against him.

You, we, no one will get any specific plan that has a drop of common sense in it because they don’t have any. They have nothing but hatred for Bush in their arsenal.

Well guess what boys and girls, he won’t be the POTUS after the 20th of Jan. You get to blame him for a while. But that will run out too. Unless President ObamaMcCain finds some bright people to surround themselves with we are going to be in deeper trouble still.

There is a really really good reason the USA has in all it’s history only elected two presidents directly from the US Senate. They have no experience. That is as true of McCain as it is of Obama. They don’t know how things work. Both men have demonstrated profound ignorance. I’m not happy with either choice which my bumper sticker says: No One for President.

I’ll sit right here and wait for 2 or 3 sound practical strategic proposals to
“Clean this Mess Up”.

The arrogance behind even MAKING such a statement is huge.

But the Arrogance of the Left continues to astound me at every turn.

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