The rhinos are closing off your future. As the White House folks say, health care premiums have doubled over the last decade. The government is saddled with $36 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
So your only question should be: Where do you find a tool or weapon big enough to stop the rhino stampedes? You know the problem is big, and you figure the response had better be gigantic.
Then you look on Capitol Hill and you see a bunch of popguns. The politicians describe these big ugly problems, but when it comes time to talk about their remedies they tell you: Don’t worry. Nothing’s going to change. In other words, we’re going to eliminate the biggest, hairiest, most entrenched problem in the country without fundamentally changing the system and without asking for sacrifice from anybody.
Good luck.
He has a critical point. If whatever group-think, underfunded, compromise laden, don’t scare the old folks worded, “slippery slope to socialism” redacted bill that comes out of congress doesn’t have the strength to actually address the issue, then the results will be all too predictable.
But, for all of Brooks’s insight and keen analysis, I dare you to try to read his article without the following song in your head. (It won’t work, I tried.)
There you go again, blaming the MSM for running you out of office (can someone please point me to the apocryphal personal attacks on her downs syndrome son Trip?).
Truly, this incessant “play the victim” line of hers is the only thing that really bugs me. It offends my sense of strategery. Yes, it’s good to garner sympathy, but everyone who CAN name a major newspaper other than the Wasilla Frontiersman knows that if she thinks she’s being picked on now, just wait till she comes to the lower 48.
Take, for example, her Facebook entry: “[T]hough it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make.” The not-so-subtle reference here is to President Obama leaving the senate after he was elected POTUS. But the comparison is, of course, ridiculous if for no other reason than that Obama only resigned his position AFTER being elected.
Now, some Palin apologists argue that in order to be on an even playing field with the likes of Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, she can’t be up in Alaska where she’s isolated and tied down by that pesky “governor” job thing. She needs to be out raising money and glad handing in the lower 48. Fair enough. Politically it makes sense for her to get out of Dodge. But for the love of all that’s holy woman, don’t blame your choice on the media. Not only does it make you look thin skinned and unready for prime time, but your claims about being especially targeted are demonstrably untrue. Don’t believe me? Google “Hillary Clinton.”