KRAUTHAMMER NAILS IT!
Go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-the-president-plays-small-ball/2012/01/26/gIQAWo04TQ_story.html?hpid=z2 to read how Charles Krauthammer does so.
I have stumbled around trying to express my own dismay over the very poor SOTU address given last Tuesday night by President Obama. I called it dull and confusing, with no grand or even new, bold ideas. Krauthammer calls it “small ball”.
He then calls the President for proposing the “Buffet Rule” taxation approach on millionaires as “redistribution simply for the sake of redistribution”. He compares the new proposed “rule” to the failed Alternative Minimum Tax that we still cannot fix, in spite of its effect on middle income tax payers, not the super-rich.
Krauthammer also wrote, “The visionary of 2008 — purveyor of hope and change, healer of the earth, tamer of the rising seas — offered an hour of little things…” which really says it all. Little things, particularly rehashed “little things” that do little or nothing to return us to economic prosperity or defend our nation adequately in the future.
This column by Krauthammer shows why he is a very good, and famous, national columnist, while I struggle along a simply a local blogger in Joplin, MO.
Good job, Mr. Krauthammer. Now would you please tell the GOP candidates to stop arguing about a Moon colony and get back to things that matter for the upcoming general election!!!
January 27, 2012 at 9:09 am |
WOW, I didn’t know Charles read the comments sections of the Globe blogs.
Me thinks me remembers a certain blogger commenting on the very issue of the Alternative Minimum Tax on a certain “I’m not sure are you?” blog post?
You should feel honored Anson, that a man of Mr. Krauthammer’s stature and intellect reads your blog and the commentators who frequent such! lol
Come to think of it, are we sure that “Nonny” isn’t Charles in disguise?
January 27, 2012 at 5:35 pm |
Thanks, Geoff, but in my wildest dreams, I couldn’t write like Krauthammer. I’m just a poor slob who only wishes he could make a living writing.
Krauthammer does a fantastic job pointing out that all the ideas Obama suggested have been tried before, and failed. Then again, he’s a great writer, so I shouldn’t be surprised he could take a steaming pile o’ feces like that SOTU address and rip it apart in a hurry.
January 27, 2012 at 7:19 pm
And just imagine what he’d do to our two VI’s Graham and Wheeler! lol
January 27, 2012 at 9:12 am |
BTW, you probably want to avoid sharing this with the dwainbwains over on the EC blog. There still in the Kool-Aide that Tuesday night was a most “excellent” speech delivered by Dear Leader.
Exposing them to the reality of Krauthammer and the facts behind O’s rhetoric could be too strong a shock to their systems if forced to face it all at once. Such a shock carries the very real risk of an environmental disaster of messed jammies all over Joplin!
January 27, 2012 at 9:27 am |
Geoff,
I have not been “over there” yet today. They are probably still arguing about how much money gave to charities!!!
I also became a little distracted this morning with Herb’s recent rebutal. But now that I have settled in to my routine, I may go drop a few more bombs in the midst of our liberal bretheren “over there”.
Anson