Hope & change & post-racial hooey: the last time I was accused of being racist was almost forty years ago, by a co-worker trying to weasel out of something she’d done wrong. I worked the same shift. She accused me of committing the error. I said that I hadn’t done it. She said I was racist.
Um, er, huh?
So now we have Prez B Cool in the White House. Anybody who disagrees with him is racist.
Pardon me. I’ve danced to that tune before. It’s a tango, and I refuse to dance along.
More fodder for the liberals to hurl slurs: Politico’s The Huddle proclaims that the culture wars are back and excerpts an article by Patrick O’Connor and Carrie Budoff Brown as evidence:
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The left-vs.-right battles that dominate American politics — and that President Barack Obama has sought desperately to avoid — are about to move center stage in the health care debate.
After months of discussion about once-obscure policy particulars, the debate is reverting to well-trod political terrain over issues that have long divided Democrats and Republicans: whether lawsuits against doctors should be capped, how much care to provide the poor, whether to pay for abortions and whether people who came here illegally should be covered.
The emergence of these now-familiar dividing lines doesn’t bode well for a White House — and a president — that has been eager to avoid the politics of the past and already has had enough trouble selling the idea of reform in broad strokes. In his speech to Congress last week, Obama tried to assuage concerns about abortion and illegal immigration and offered to include new restrictions on medical malpractice lawsuits, extending an olive branch to Republicans that only seemed to reignite a long-standing debate.
(Emphasis added.)
I don’t think that Prez B Cool has tried to avoid the culture wars so much as to bulldoze the opposition. Burial in their trenches* is not the same as cooperatively co-existing with the opposition.
* An allusion to a tactic used during Desert Storm to effectively neutralize Iraqi troops. At the time, a lot of noise was raised over the tactic, as somehow “unfair.” Prez B Cool used the tactic to pass the Generational Theft Act of 2009. He has run into quicksand and concrete barriers while using the same tactic for energy (Cap’n Trade) and health care reform.
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