Are the Democrats Next?
With the British Parliament on the verge of a vote of no confidence in Gordon Brown’s government, Democratic politicians must be thinking that their house of cards is in danger of crumbling. Here’s what the Telegraph is reporting:
In a move that left the Prime Minister fighting for his political future, rebels claimed that as many as 50 Labour MPs were prepared to put their names to an email demanding that he step down.
Details of what party insiders described as an attempted “cyber coup” emerged after his authority was dealt a potentially critical blow by the resignation of Hazel Blears, the Communities Secretary. Her departure threatened to precipitate a sweeping Cabinet reshuffle being planned by Mr Brown.
Alistair Darling was said to be resisting a move to the Home Office, opening a dangerous rift between the Prime Minister and his Chancellor.
Gordon Brown has done in Britain what President OBama has done in the United States: he’s done everything except drain his country’s treasury. To say that Brits aren’t happy with Brown is understatement.
Miss Blears became the second minister to walk out of the Cabinet in as many days, after the resignation of Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary and her departure left Mr Brown facing the most serious crisis of his premiership on the eve of elections that will decide whether he stays as Prime Minister.
The timing of the resignation of Miss Blears, the day before the local and European elections and just hours before Prime Minister’s Questions, was designed to maximise the political damage to an already severely weakened Mr Brown.
It’s apparent that Miss Blears isn’t much interested in party unity. She shouldn’t be, either, because Gordon Brown has done nothing other than drive Britain’s economy into the ground.
Meanwhile, American anti-spending outrage is building. Anytime that California prevents their politicians from raising taxes, it’s news. Anytime that Californians tell their politicians that they’d better not raise taxes by a 2:1 margin, they’re not yelling Hell No. They’re screaming at the top of their lungs HELL NO!!!
There are lots of moderates who supported Obama in 2008 who are pissed with him eight months later. These moderates aren’t happy that President Obama is in the process of nationalizing financial institutions. They’re equally upset that President Obama has all but nationalized GM and Chrysler. But what they’re most upset about is that his administration has borrowed more money in the first few months of his administration than all other administrations for the last 30 years have COMBINED.
Young people, who supported then-Candidate Obama, are upset with the deficits he’s running because they know that that means they’ll have to pay extra taxes for money that’s getting spent now on President Obama’s multi-billion dollar political payoff borrowing spree.
It’s worth remembering that Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter were the only Republicans who voted for the stimulus bill. It’s worth remembering, too, that the only people who voted for the omnibus spending bill were Democrats. Ditto with President Obama’s budget.
In short, the Democrats fingerprints are all over this drunken spending orgy. They own this mess.
While it’s true that this mess started under President Bush’s watch, it’s equally true that President Obama’s spending has made things dramatically worse. It’s equally true that President Obama doesn’t have the solutions to this problem that’s quickly becoming a crisis.
You know it’s quickly becoming a crisis when Chinese economists laugh at Tim Geithner for saying that China’s bonds are safe. People know they aren’t because we’re spending money at just as fast a rate as Gordon Brown spent money in Great Britain.
If Washington’s politicians, aka Democrats, don’t change their free-spending ways soon, they will be swept aside like Gordon Brown’s government is about to get swept aside.
Technorati Tags: Spending, Gordon Brown, No Confidence Vote, Economy, President Obama, Tim Geithner, Deficits, Inflation, Tax Increases, Bonds, ARRA, Democrats, Election 2010, China, Debt
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
June 4th, 2009 at 5:58 am
I sure hope your right, and the Dems will get swept aside next election. However, I think a lot of people are still buying the “Bush left us with this mess and we’re doing the best we can” line. Keep trying to wake people up, we need people like you!