Romney: From Carter Malaise To Obama Meltdown

"When I was governor, S&P rewarded Massachusetts with a credit rating upgrade for our sound fiscal management and the underlying strength of our economy. That didn’t happen by accident. The president’s failure to put the nation’s fiscal and economic house in order has caused a massive loss of confidence that resulted in an embarrassing downgrade. In the Carter era, it was called ‘malaise.’ Under President Obama, it’s called meltdown.” --Mitt Romney

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The Eerie Echo Of Carter Amidst Obama's Failure

Nobody has to remind me about Carter and what a disaster he was.
I lived through it
I experienced it.
I know.
It was a low point for our nation: incompetent, innefective leadership.
It was amateur hour in the White House.
Now, I fear we're witnessing it all over again.
It's all too familiar. The scenario is all too similar. The words, the mood, many of the experiences -- all the same.
But don't take my word for it. Listen to the echos of Carter in the words of Obama -- with thanks and appreciation to Laura Ingraham and MEDIAite.

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Geithner: It's Gonna Get A Lot Worse

Speaking on a TV program yesterday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the current economic crisis will continue for millions of Americans.
Geithner, on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, said the Obama administration remains aware that the current economic conditions are difficult for much of the nation’s population. But then Geithner added even worse news: for many people “it’s going to feel very hard, harder than anything they’ve experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come.”
Geithner (who became Treasury Secretary despite the fact that he didn't pay his own taxes in a timely fashion) should have never been confirmed for the post in the first place. But after 30 months on the job, he's helped to preside over an economic policy that has failed -- totally and completely. He should be canned.
BTW: Geithner's pronouncement hearkens back to the final days of the abysmal Carter administration when the so-called "Misery index" soared to new heights and the American people were effectively told: "Get used to it."

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Remembering Reagan's First Day In Office

Strong. Clear. Determined. But magnanimous, too.
That's how Ronald Reagan began his presidency.
That's the kind of leader he was.
That's how we'll remember him.

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Obama: Too Tiny For The Office?

In its current issue Newsweek is arguing that the presidency is just too big for one man?
Is the office to big for one man or is the man who's in the office to tiny for the job?
Now, NewsBusters has discovered that the Washington Post used pretty mush this same argument in the 1980 when it tried to defend another failed president, Jimmy Carter. The Post then owned Newsweek.
Here's how NewsBusters tells it:

In the November 22 issue of Newsweek magazine, Daniel Stone defended the Obama administration by blaming the institution of the presidency for failures rather than the chief executive himself: "The issue is not Obama, it’s the office....Can any single person fully meet the demands of the 21st-century presidency?" The same argument was used to excuse an overwhelmed Jimmy Carter 30 years earlier. 

The sub-headline for the piece read: "The presidency has grown, and grown and grown, into the most powerful, most impossible job in the world." At one point, Stone explained: "Among a handful of presidential historians Newsweek contacted for this story, there was a general consensus that the modern presidency may have become too bloated." A January 13, 1980 Washington Post article made a similar conclusion about the beleaguered Carter administration: "Voters have lowered their expectations of what any president can accomplish; they have accepted the notion that this country may never again have heroic, larger-than-life leadership in the White House."

Of course Newsweek was wrong when it said we would never have heroic, larger-than-life leadership in the White House. Within a year Ronald Reagan took the oath of office and America was once again on its way toward having another "heroic, larger-than-life" figure in the White House.
Over and over the liberal media get it wrong.
But they never learn -- and they never change.
And neither do the people who follow them, or so it seems.
Click here to read the full NewsBusters report.

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Are We Really Living In A Polarized Era?

Are we really living in polarized times?
Is it really all that bad?
Writer and commentator P. J. O'Rourke doesn't think so.
Here's part of what he has to say in an interview with Right Wing News:
People will say to me, "Oh my God, I've never seen politics so polarized!" and I'm going, "What are you talking about? Don't you remember the war in Vietnam? Don't you remember Nixon? What about the end of the Carter years? What about the early Reagan years? What about 1860? That was polarized. Half the country left." So, we're not living in the most polarized times.
Click here to read the full interview with P. J. O'Rourke.

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