Obama: The Grand Strategy

WASHINGTON POST, 4/24/2009, by Charles Krauthammer (H/t: John H. Detweiler) - Unified theory of Obamaism, fifth (final?) installment: In the service of his ultimate mission -- the leveling of social inequalities -- President Obama offers a tripartite social democratic agenda: nationalized health care, federalized education (ultimately guaranteed through college) and a cash-cow carbon tax (or its equivalent) to subsidize the other two. ∴ Problem is, the math doesn't add up. Not even a carbon tax would pay for Obama's vastly expanded welfare state. Nor will Midwest Democrats stand for a tax that would devastate their already crumbling region. Read more at the Washington Post...