Dr. Hanson Schools President Obama
Monday, June 15th, 2009If you haven’t read Victor Davis Hanson’s article for NRO, put that down as today’s must reading. VDH excoriates President Obama for “making things up.” I particularly appreciate the fact that he isn’t gentle in his excoriation of President Obama. Here’s a sample:
The “Big Lie.” Team Obama says that Judge Sotomayor misspoke when she asserted that Latinas were inherently better judges than white males. Yet the people around Obama knew before Sotomayor was nominated that she has reiterated such racialist sentiments repeatedly over many years.
Obama complained that his deficits were largely inherited, even though his newly projected annual deficit and aggregate increase in the national debt may well, if they are not circumvented, equal all the deficit spending compiled by all previous administrations combined.
The president lectures Congress on its financial excesses. He advocates “pay as you go” budgeting. But he remains silent about the unfunded liabilities involved in his own proposals for cap-and-trade, universal health care, and education reform, which will in aggregate require well over a trillion dollars in new spending on top of existing deficits — but without any “pay as you go” proposals to fund them. (more…)