freecounterpoint: Miss Pepelle Ran Faster and Faster, to the Scene of the Disaster

Saturday, January 17, 2009

The Crying of 'Snot '09

Tecumseh said...: The Obama administration doesn't have to do anything terribly transformative – overnight socialization of health care, etc. In fact, it doesn't have to do anything at all. It could just sit there, and America would still drift remorselessly, incrementally left, inch by inch.

Right-o. Pepe can just sit back, and relax. It's all on automatic pilot. All he needs to do is nudge things along.

Eventually, you reach a tipping point: At some point in the next four years, we will reach a situation where the majority of Americans pay no federal income tax but are able to vote themselves more goodies from those who do. The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

.. which is the basic desideratum of Planet Pepe, of course.; 1/17/2009 3:52 PM
Tecumseh said...: We're now told that the problem with the last New Deal is that it was too small, so Obama's new New Deal has to be even bigger. That's like telling New Orleans that the problem is they're not far enough below sea level so they need to dig deeper.

Which is precisely what Pepe is busily doing.; 1/17/2009 3:58 PM
Mr roT said...: Steyn in a great mood.; 1/17/2009 7:20 PM
Tecumseh said...: Steyn is like the stock market -- he goes up and down, up and down. He just needs a good spark to get the juices flowing. (Metaphor alert?); 1/17/2009 7:40 PM