I am as much against Obama as the next guy. He is shameless and foolish and a slimy liar.
However – do not think for one second that I will not call you out (you on the right who I basically agree with) if you speak of us as in “peacetime” when there is still fighting and dying going on in 3 countries now.
The two parties have a conflict of visions. Republicans view the current levels of spending — an astonishing 24 percent of GDP — as a bizarre exception to peacetime norms in America.
and John Podhoretz
Perhaps voters don’t care all that much about the specifics of the debt ceiling, although it sure seems like plenty of Republican voters do. One thing is probably for certain: No matter how he tries to spin it at a press conference, voters are not going to be persuaded that the man who oversaw and pushed for unprecedented peacetime growth in the size of government has suddenly become the nation’s foremost fiscal hawk.
