My Daily Domestic Diigolet 03/05/2009

• OLDP Grade 3tags: Lent, Catholic, catechesis
• Miami abortion clinic owner threw live baby away, prosecutors say — South Florida Sun-Sentinel.comJustice for Baby Shanice. tags: abortion
• Rush Job: Inside Dems’ Limbaugh plan – Jonathan Martin – POLITICO.comThe Obama administration targets a private citizen.

  I also noted there was some bashing of Jim Cramer too for his remarks this week. This is scary stuff folks. If private citizens with a venue for speaking openly are silenced for dissenting against the Obama agenda, who is next? And do you think small bloggers are going to be spared? This really is a scary turn of events. tags: obama, politics

• Op-Ed Columnist – A Moderate Manifesto – NYTimes.comA New York Times Columnist analyzes the problems with the Obama era. tags: politics, obama, are, you, sorry, yet?
  • But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a promiscuous unwillingness to set priorities and accept trade-offs. There is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor — caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all problems at once.
  • So programs are piled on top of each other and we wind up with a gargantuan $3.6 trillion budget. We end up with deficits that, when considered realistically, are $1 trillion a year and stretch as far as the eye can see. We end up with an agenda that is unexceptional in its parts but that, when taken as a whole, represents a social-engineering experiment that is entirely new.
  • The U.S. has never been a society riven by class resentment. Yet the Obama budget is predicated on a class divide. The president issued a read-my-lips pledge that no new burdens will fall on 95 percent of the American people. All the costs will be borne by the rich and all benefits redistributed downward.
  • Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case — are forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was. His words are responsible; his character is inspiring. But his actions betray a transformational liberalism that should put every centrist on notice. As Clive Crook, an Obama admirer, wrote in The Financial Times, the Obama budget “contains no trace of compromise. It makes no gesture, however small, however costless to its larger agenda, of a bipartisan approach to the great questions it addresses. It is a liberal’s dream of a new New Deal.”
• Obama the Revolutionary – HUMAN EVENTStags: quotes, politics, Obama
  • The Republican Party shouldn’t be the “Party of No.” It must be the “Party of Hell, No.”

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