Barack Obama's speech to Congress

UPDATED. President Obama's speech to Congress (see full text) didn't sit well with many conservatives but it's not just bad spending and mounting debt that has them riled. Here are some reactions...

WASHINGTON POST, 2/26/09 by William Kristol - Republicans' Day of Reckoning (Hat tip: John Detweiler)

Excerpt: For Obama's aim is not merely to "revive this economy, but to build a new foundation for lasting prosperity." Obama outlined much of this new foundation in the most unabashedly liberal and big-government speech a president has delivered to Congress since Lyndon Baines Johnson. Obama intends to use his big three issues -- energy, health care and education --to transform the role of the federal government as fundamentally as did the New Deal and the Great Society.

WASHINGTON POST, 2/26.09 by David S. Broder - Obama Rolls The Dice (Hat tip: John Detweiler)

The size of the gambles that President Obama is taking every day is simply staggering. What came through in his speech to a joint session of Congress and a national television audience Tuesday night was a dramatic reminder of the unbelievable stakes he has placed on the table in his first month in office, putting at risk the future well-being of the country and the Democratic Party's control of Washington.

BREITBART NEWS.COM, 2/27/09 by Martin Crutsinger - Economists question budget's economic assumptions

But many economists who examined the economic assumptions that undergird the spending plan believe that Obama may have resorted to one of the oldest gimmicks around—relying on overly optimistic economic assumptions to make it look like you are dealing with soaring budget deficits when in reality you are only closing the gap on paper.

GRASSFIRE.ORG, 2/25/09 - Obama wants our children "from the day they are born" (Hat tip: Hawthorne O'Rourke)

"Last night, President Obama pledged to expand the tentacles of government further into our lives than ever before when he said that government will watch over your children "from the day they are born"! Here (below the fold) is a sampling of Obama's outrageous socialistic pledges...

• ...350,000 new government jobs...
• ...A new government "lending fund that represents the largest effort ever" to make the government your banker!
• ...A "housing plan" that further disrupts the market and puts government in the middle of the foreclosure and refinance process -- the government will decide your payment and maybe even the value of your home...
• ...Trillions more in bailout funds for the banking industry that will further balloon the unprecedented deficit that could approach $2 trillion this year...
• ...Onerous regulations that give government more and more control over the financial markets...
• ...A new global warming bureaucracy and carbon tax that force us to adopt inefficient "green" energy...
• ..."Comprehensive" health care that further burdens our broken system with more and more health care entitlements...
• ...A massive expansion of government education that covers children "from the day they are born" and includes a guarantee that everyone can afford higher education...
  

Obama using the economic crisis to push socialism
President Barack Obama is using the current economic conditions to implement the most massive expansion of government in modern American history. He has called this a recession that "we may not be able to reverse" and last night called it a "day of reckoning."

His Chief of Staff said plainly that "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste," and that is precisely what Obama is doing! In his first two years in office, federal spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product will double--from 20 percent to nearly 40 percent. This IS socialism!

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