From my column this morning:
It can be said that at least the president, unlike the congressional leadership, appears to have a fiscal conscience. Were he a true believer in this Keynesian spending spree, he would not be making so much noise about wasting the money, seeing it spent on thousands of congressional pet projects, or watching the deficit balloon like Bullwinkle just before Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
But were he not such a politician, he wouldn’t be making so much noise after the fact. Obama wants the people who want government to rescue them and think government can to believe he’s going to save them, but he also wants the people who were appalled by Bush’s budget deficits and who are mouth agape at the spending bills so far this year to believe he’s one of them.
From the NY Daily News:
Obama, who has been called a socialist by conservatives, including Rush Limbaugh, as he seeks to reverse the recession with bailouts, a massive stimulus plan and a massive budget deficit, said he believes in free markets.
“I don’t like the idea of spending more government money, nor am I interested in expanding government’s role,” Obama insisted.
I don’t believe him any more than I believed it when Bush said something similar.
