Political Class Dismissed

A perfect example of the bizarro world in which our political class lives is how they’ve redefined extremist wackos to be considered “centrist moderates” and vice versa. Look at how Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul are villified as “extremists” because they don’t think the U.S. should start WWIII with nuclear-armed Russia over Georgia but “centrist moderates” McCain and Obama agree 100% on the issue. Isn’t that completely insane? Who in their right mind can legitimately defend that?

Another good example of the bizzarro world mentality is how establishment deemed “centrist moderates” like David Frum and Arlen Specter are considered respectable even though they stand for more war, torture and deficit-spending. The MSM is trying to paint Specter’s departure from the GOP as evidence the party is moving in an extreme direction (i.e. less statist). It’s similar to how they tried to pin McCain’s loss on social conservative Sarah Palin while ignoring the neocon disasters of the Bush years. The MSM and their “centrist moderates” always tend to overlook the public’s disdain with the bipartisan consensus on empire-building, endless war and spending ourselves into oblivion. Commentor WRW on TheAmericanConservative blog nails it with the following:

Yes, it pinches on the myth that it was “social conservatives” who lost it all; not the warmongers, torture promoters, loose immigration “reformers”, drug benefit/no child corporate welfare advocates, outsourcing promoters, and tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% crowd. Oh, and did I mention staggering deficits and inflationary housing policies?

No. Frum had no involvement with any of that. Neither did Specter. Oh, wait, yeah they were holding hands on those.

I think all of us liberty-minded individuals can agree the mainstream media (MSM) is biased and statist. Since Obama is the biggest statist on the scene right now, they’re all in the tank for him. But this AP article is so openly biased that it even shocked me!

After focusing his first month on the economic mess he inherited, President Barack Obama now starts rolling out his own far-reaching agenda with a summit on fiscal policy, his first speech to Congress and the unveiling of his budget for 2010.

Inherited? Didn’t he vote for and endorse all the federal intervention into the market which caused the financial crisis in the first place?

This coming week will mark a turning point from what Obama felt compelled to do, to what he wants to do. It also may test how much spending, change and ambition the American people and their elected officials can stomach in a short time.

“Change and ambition?” This is sad. I’ve seen twelve year old girls talk about the Jonas brothers with more restraint.

The heart of Obama’s economic team — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers — are deficit-wary economists. They are now central to the tug-of-war in the administration and Congress over Obama’s grand vision and his team’s fiscal pragmatism.

The two CFR stooges who are bailing out banks on the back of future generations are wary of deficits? Since when? “Fiscal pragmatism?” Obama just agreed in one day to spend more than both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have cost us. That’s pragmatism? I guess I need to recheck my Websters because I clearly don’t know what pragmatism means.

“A certain passage of time is going to be necessary now before the political climate catches up with the economic environment,” said James Galbraith, an economist at the University of Texas at Austin. “We just made what seems to many people to be a very large investment in reviving the economy.” Nonetheless, he said, the stimulus package probably will be too small to deal with the economy’s rapid decline. “If that’s the case,” Galbraith said, “there will be time to move larger measures that require more imagination and more initiative.”

More “imagination and initiative?” Hooooooo boy. I wonder what the press releases from Pravda were like in the waning days of the Soviet Union. I’m betting they weren’t much different than this blatant propaganda. Hopefully the people will learn their lesson of listening to the MSM when the inflationary depression spirals out of control. Then PCD and similar sites in the alternative media will step in to fill the void.