• Tuesday, March 5, 2013

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

With $6 trillion down the drain, you might think that wild, drunken spending  of other people’s money that we do not have is President Obama’s  single greatest talent. Turns out there is something else he is even better  at.

That would be the hysterical, doom-and-gloom fear mongering we have witnessed  these past few weeks over comparatively small cuts to the federal  government.

Mr. Obama’s terroristic threats have been  amply noted everywhere. Planes will fall from the skies, starvation in the  streets, teachers will be sent home.

What is truly astonishing here is not all of the reckless and dire  predictions he has made. Nor is it that already many of his predictions have  proved to be demonstrably false. And nor is it even that he has so clearly  orchestrated a widespread and deceitful campaign to punish Americans with real  pain over the cuts to the federal government their lawmakers have allowed to happen.

What is truly astonishing and breathtaking here is that all of this doom and  gloom Mr. Obama has predicted is precisely  what he wants for this country.

Impossible, you say. No way that someone who seems as hopeful and likable as  Barack Obama could wish such misery on this  country. But that is the only explanation for the president’s response to last  week’s Republican bill to give him broad authority to restructure the cuts in a  way to minimize the pain and disruption.

Someone truly concerned about the impact of the “draconian” cuts to the monstrous federal government would have leaped  for such authority and found ways to spare as many people as possible.

What did Mr. Obama do? He announced his  opposition to the bill and maniacally threatened to veto it if it came across  his desk.

That’s right, you, the American voter, have become Mr.  Obama’s voodoo doll, and he is jabbing you all over with sharp pins and  placing demonic hexes on you right now as you read this. This is gonna hurt and  you are going to feel it!

He wants you to feel writhing pain and he wants you to associate that pain  with the leaner government espoused by his  political opponents — as well as the majority of American voters.

In four short years, Obama has gone from  hopeful orator promising a bright new future to economic terrorist, a spending  jihadist. He is willing to wreck the economy and inflict dire pain on you all  because he is gambling that by trimming the federal government, you will feel pain. And if  you feel that pain, you will blame Republicans.

So much for the new kind of politics he promised us.