Tea Party Phase II, coming to a Democratic Party near you.
Obama’s policies have been bad for business, bad for the economy, bad for allies, bad for America. Interestingly, the one thing he cares about, government, is ultimately the most wounded by his combination of calculated malice and incalculable incompetence. From NASA to the Federal Reserve (not technically a part of government, but might as well be), not one institution will be viewed in as positive a light at Obama’s departure as it was when he arrived. He will take with him the notion that American government is competent or benevolent.
Small-government conservatives are not anarchists, and this is why we loathe Ron Paul’s kooky cult. So it does not align…
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Also, he is likely to produce a democrat Tea Party, which will likely have much in common with the Republican one. Many democrats are now trapped into supporting the President in a similar fashion to the way conservatives were stuck with Bush while he spent like a democrat. He was right on enough things that we dared not let him go. I believe that President Obama is on a similar trajectory but with a rather more pronounced arc. He who flies most quickly will make the biggest crater.
In his wake, President Obama will leave a sprawling, unmanaged, widely hated system of barely coordinated government agencies and bureaus, departments, forces, and so on. When he at last departs, neither democrat nor republican will have much stomach for being shoved around by the Orwellian state.
