Obama the Arrogant

Saturday 17 July 2010 - Filed under Dumbassery + Government + Journalism + POTUS + Stimulus

And I thought that it was libertarianism which was supposed to be egotistical. Apparently, Obama is the All Seeing Eye who will make it all better for us lowly plebs.  Sheryl Gay Stolberg of The New York Times, quoting Obama, as she tries mightily to help the administration fool the American people in to thinking that his enormously expensive, far reaching progressive economic polices are working and despite being highly unpopular, are what’s best:

You know, sometimes these pundits, they can’t figure me out,” the president said last week, campaigning in Kansas City, Mo., for the Democratic Senate candidate there. “They say, ‘Well, why is he doing that?’ That doesn’t poll well. Well, I’ve got my own pollsters, I know it doesn’t poll well. But it’s the right thing to do for America. (Emphasis added)

Now perhaps I’m wrong, a humility which would never be allowed by us satanic-minded libertarians, but it occurs to me that in a republic in which we have a representative government, the right thing to do for the nation is to FUCKING REPRESENT THE PEOPLE BY NOT SHOVING BILLS DOWN OUR THROATS THAT WE DON’T FUCKING WANT. And not just that some of us don’t want, but that most of us do not have any interest in whatsoever.  I find it offensive, and highly intellectually dishonest, that I can be labeled a satanic ego-maniacal bastard for suggesting that perhaps free adults needn’t have our hands held and our every need met by some the state, while those who would make those proclamations subscribe to the idea that they can make decisions fit for everyone. The libertarded philosophy, then, is that “one man is not fit to make decisions for himself, but I am fit to make decisions for you.”

Stolberg begrudgingly admits that Bush made the same error, making very unpopular policy decisions, arguing that though it may not be popular, it is the right thing to do for America:

It is an argument that sounds eerily similar to the one Mr. Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, made to justify an unpopular war in Iraq as he watched his own poll numbers sink lower.

Yet ultimately her argument hinges on the idea that now, unlike when Bush displayed vast amounts of hubris deciding what’s best for 300,000,000 people all on his own,  it’s The Right People™ who are now making the decisions, and thus all is right with the world.  But government is government, no matter which party is in power; it’s just a matter of slight managerial preferences which distinguish them, not some massive chasm between good and evil where Republitards are clearly eviul, while Demotards led by The One are clearly omfuckingnipotent.

2010-07-17  »  madlibertarianguy