Truth, Lies and In Between

I said it already. FAIL. That’s what Obama has done, and with all likelihood, will continue to do. Look up the word failure in the grand ol’ dictionary, and they’ve replaced LBJ and FDR with BHO.

Obama Fails
By J.R. Dunn

Over the past couple of weeks, it has become apparent even to politicians and the media that the Demented Spree Act of 2009, better known perhaps as the “Obama Stimulus”, has not worked, and shows no sign of ever working.

Unemployment — the professed reason for the stimulus in the first place — is now at 9.5% and will break 10% within the next few months. Credit remains tight and industry is still fumbling. It is clear that there are no shortcuts back to a steady prosperity, that this recession will be overcome in the exact way such disasters always have been — by working our way out of it. The $787 billion (“real money”, as Everett Dirksen would have put it), already spent, being spent, and to be spent, can be considered as so much waste paper.

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Speaking of appeasement:

Skinned Cats and Tyrants
By Joseph Ashby

As the old saying goes, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. By the same token, there is more than one way to lose liberty. Specifically, liberty can be taken away or given away.

Perhaps history’s most famous example of giving away freedom is the 1938 Munich Agreement. Brittan’s Neville Chamberlain and other European leaders believed they could stop the advance of Nazi Germany with a policy known as Appeasement. The Munich Agreement allowed Germany to vastly expand its borders without military opposition. In the days following the summit Chamberlain fatefully declared that they had achieved “peace in [their] time.” Not long after, Adolf Hitler blitzed through much of Europe in what would become the deadliest war in world history.

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