Empty Rhetoric

Thursday 14 April 2011 - Filed under Dumbassery + Economy + election + Government

The Wall Street Journal on Obama’s “debt reduction” speech:

Mr. Obama did not deign to propose an alternative to rival Mr. Ryan’s plan, even as he categorically rejected all its reform ideas, repeatedly vilifying them as essentially un-American. “Their vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America,” he said, supposedly pitting “children with autism or Down’s syndrome” against “every millionaire and billionaire in our society.” The President was not attempting to join the debate Mr. Ryan has started, but to close it off just as it begins and banish House GOP ideas to political Siberia.

Mr. Obama then packaged his poison in the rhetoric of bipartisanship—which “starts,” he said, “by being honest about what’s causing our deficit.” The speech he chose to deliver was dishonest even by modern political standards.

A politician refuses to engage in honest discussion, and anything he says is nothing more than empty rhetoric? Go fucking figure.

2011-04-14  »  madlibertarianguy