rationalpassion (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} rationalpassion) wrote,@ 2009-05-26 07:48:00 |
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Obama And The "South Park" Gnomes
All those comedians complaining about how there's no jokes to be made about Obama are themselves a punchline. Laughing at this administration is easy--until one realizes that it is wrecking this country so quickly and thoroughly that one feels compelled to conclude that wrecking the country is the "change" Obama "hoped" for. As Bret Stephens writes in the WSJ:
"In Gnome-speak, then, Mr. Obama's energy policy goes something like this: Phase One: Inaugurate the era of 'green' energy. Phase Two: Overturn the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Phase Three: Carbon neutrality!
"Take any number of Mr. Obama's other initiatives. Rescue Detroit? Phase One: Set a national mileage standard for passenger cars of 39 miles per gallon and force auto makers to make the kind of cars that drove them to bankruptcy in the first place.
"Reduce the deficit? Phase One: Approve $3.5 trillion in government stimulus, and then await the mythical Keynesian multiplier.
"Pay for a $1.2 trillion health-care reform? Phase One: scrounge around for about $60 billion in new 'sin tax' revenue.
"Actually, we can easily guess how Mr. Obama intends to make up the difference on this last item: To wit, by taxing health benefits. Taxes, subsidies funded by taxes, regulations and mandates will also fill in many (though not all) of the other blanks. Underpants gnomes: meet Phase Two. Say, what happened to profits?"
All those comedians complaining about how there's no jokes to be made about Obama are themselves a punchline. Laughing at this administration is easy--until one realizes that it is wrecking this country so quickly and thoroughly that one feels compelled to conclude that wrecking the country is the "change" Obama "hoped" for. As Bret Stephens writes in the WSJ:
"In Gnome-speak, then, Mr. Obama's energy policy goes something like this: Phase One: Inaugurate the era of 'green' energy. Phase Two: Overturn the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Phase Three: Carbon neutrality!
"Take any number of Mr. Obama's other initiatives. Rescue Detroit? Phase One: Set a national mileage standard for passenger cars of 39 miles per gallon and force auto makers to make the kind of cars that drove them to bankruptcy in the first place.
"Reduce the deficit? Phase One: Approve $3.5 trillion in government stimulus, and then await the mythical Keynesian multiplier.
"Pay for a $1.2 trillion health-care reform? Phase One: scrounge around for about $60 billion in new 'sin tax' revenue.
"Actually, we can easily guess how Mr. Obama intends to make up the difference on this last item: To wit, by taxing health benefits. Taxes, subsidies funded by taxes, regulations and mandates will also fill in many (though not all) of the other blanks. Underpants gnomes: meet Phase Two. Say, what happened to profits?"
