by Robert Ringer on Friday, August 27, 2010For reasons that will become obvious to you as you read, I thought it would be interesting to end the summer with a rerun of an article I wrote back on August 19, 2008, because it explains why I wanted Barack Obama to defeat John McCain in the presidential election. (Certain selected material has been highlighted in yellow for emphasis.)
While watching some of the B. and J. McBama interviews by Rick Warren Saturday evening, one thought dominated my mind: The big winner of the evening might just be Hillary Clinton. That’s right, none other than the little feminist idol herself – the two-for-the-price-of-one part of the HillBillys that William Jefferson Clinton promised us back in 1992. But let’s begin at the beginning.
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by Robert Ringer on Friday, August 20, 2010Ever since Barack Obama fooled independents into giving him the keys to the car (his metaphor), the talk about economic judgment day has increasingly intensified. But what, exactly, would have to happen to bring about a total collapse of the U.S. economy?
One path to economic judgment day is for the government to allow market forces to rule, which, because of decades of government meddling in the economy, would surely bring about a full-scale deflationary depression. Though the iPod, flat-screen-TV, eat-out-four-nights-a-week crowd doesn’t want to hear about it, the truth is that a deflationary economic judgment day would be a good thing because it would cleanse the economy of artificially high wages, profligate spending, and malinvestment.
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by Robert Ringer on Saturday, August 14, 2010I was saddened, though not surprised, when former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said in an interview with the Washington Post, “We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.” It stirred my greatest fears about the Republican Party.
I’ve always liked Trent Lott. Even though he’s establishment to the core, by and large he’s been one of the good guys – kind of an unperfected free-marketer. But I was very disappointed at his playing the role of loyal club member and dutifully stepping down as Senate Majority Leader when his well-intended remarks at Strom Thurman’s 100th birthday party exploded into a left-wing fiesta.
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by Robert Ringer on Tuesday, August 3, 2010A long-time friend of mine, who retired some years ago after serving as a Republican congressman for eighteen years, called me last week. He said he was concerned about protecting his assets in the event the current soft dictatorship in Washington evolves into an out-and-out police state.
During our discussion, I asked him if the Republicans win control of both houses of Congress, did he believe they would have the courage to seriously start cutting back on entitlements and trying to repeal every unconstitutional bill the Obamaviks have passed. To which my cynical friend responded, “If the Republicans take over the House and Senate, it’s not going to make a tinker’s dam bit of difference.”
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