Who is Really Trying to Change Things?
Whatever happened to the change President? In ’08, Obama ran on being the ‘hope and change’ candidate. He was going to be, or at least he sold himself as, the change candidate. The one who was going to be a different politician. The one who was going to be the President who changed the way Washington and politics worked. The bipartisan President who was going to make a difference. Now, here we are with his mess to clean up, and how does he want to do it? Why, the old fashioned way, of course. Higher taxes, more debt and more spending. What exactly has he changed?
In fact, it is the new Tea Party Republicans, the conservatives, who are the change agents in Washington. It took an election in 2010 (one the Democrats are trying to ignore and pretend never happened) and a good old fashioned butt kicking of Democrats to put some people into office who are really interested in bringing about some change. But it sure isn’t the change The One wants to bring about. The real change agents, the Tea Party people, are the ones who have said enough to massive Government spending, debt, taxes and interference in everybody’s lives. And it is about time at least some politicians are starting to listen.
Every time candidate Obama talked about change he was noticeably lacking in exactly what it was he was going to change. Now we know what he was going to change. He was going to change America into another bankrupt, socialist, wasteland to bring about his definition of social justice, whatever that is.
Plus, whenever I heard him talk about this hope and change business, I wanted to hide my wallet because it was obvious what he really wanted was to ‘change’ my money into someone else’s money. The money I worked for and earned should be taken from me and given to someone who didn’t earn it because that would be ‘fair’ and we would all be better off because of it.
So long Mr. Hope and Change. Those of us who didn’t get caught up in your smarmy blather aren’t surprised you have been a disaster and you won’t be missed. How’s that for change?
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