Road to Damascus

Child’s Play
The president keeps promoting an “adult conversation” about the budget, but that can’t happen if the First Adult doesn’t play his part. Obama is eager to be all things to all people. He’s against the debt and its adverse consequences, but he’s for preserving Social Security and Medicare without major changes. He’s for “tough cuts,” but he’s against saying what they are and defending them. He pronounces ambitious goals without saying how they’d be reached. Mainly, he’s for scoring political points against Republicans. (Robert Samuelson, Washington Post, 4/24/11)

Living in America
Americans are outraged about a House-passed budget bill that would destroy Medicare and Medicaid, put Social Security at risk and give $1 trillion in new tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and corporations. Republicans rammed the bill through the House on a party-line vote the same day Congress adjourned for its Easter recess. House members who voted for the bill have encountered angry crowds at town meetings. Bernie called the measure "the most right wing extremist piece of legislation that I have ever seen in my life." The Senate, he said, should vote it down. (BernieBuzz, 4/27/11)

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders clarified that this was ‘the most right wing extremist piece of legislation that I have ever seen in my life since the last piece of legislation that I said was the most right wing extremist piece of legislation that I have ever seen in my life.’ Just to clarify…….

Field Notes
A friend recently discussed with RedStateVT the state of parenting in Europe. Which, of course, liberals believe that we should emulate in all ways. Apparently parents have just given up on trying to prevent teenagers from having sex. And so, now they allow co-ed sleep-overs for kids as young as fourteen. They say that the kids should just “figure it out on their own.” Which, of course, is further proof of a continent in decline.