Sunday, December 18, 2011

Democrats find their bogeyman

Democrats' flagship campaign theme for Nov. 2012 has emerged in full force in recent weeks.
It's this: Behind all our nation's economic problems -- from abysmal unemployment numbers to sky-high deficits -- lurks a greedy businessman.
This guy is ruining things for the rest of us. He refuses to play by the rules, and lives in luxury while "the 99 percent" suffer.
Who's facilitating his misdeeds? Unprincipled Republicans, who fawningly enable the machinations of their "tax-cut-at-any-price" masters in the private sector.
This message -- now rising from many "progressive" quarters -- is a far cry from "the politics of hope" that dominated the last presidential campaign.
Democrats' businessman-as-bogeyman theme takes a variety of forms. We can see them on display in recent remarks by three of its champions: President Obama; Elizabeth Warren, who's challenging Scott Brown for a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, and Minnesota's own Gov. Mark Dayton.
Obama's need to finger businesspeople for America's economic plight is clear. In his first year as president, though he blamed George W. Bush for the nation's economic downturn, Obama assured us his own progressive policies would soon put things right and guarantee a shining future.
Now the cat is out of the bag. Obama's policies -- the gargantuan, failed stimulus; out-of-control spending; Obamacare and other huge expansions of government, and an out-of-control regulatory state -- not only failed to extricate us from economic stagnation, but made our problems far worse.
So Obama has turned to Plan B. To divert attention from his own failed policies, he's conjured up a hobgoblin.
In his recent speech at Osawatomie, Kan., the president fired a salvo in his new class-warfare campaign: The top 1 percent must stop cheating the rest of us and pay their "fair share." The "breathtaking greed of a few" is destroying the middle class.
While Obama's goal is to divert attention from his own failures, Warren offers a different flavor of "us vs. them" politics. In her world, the wealthy are not so much greedy cheaters as ungrateful dependents on a government funded by the middle class. Read More at Link Below:

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