Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, May 30, 2009 2:36:26 PM
Mark Tapscott notices an interesting blog post
by Norman Eisen, who works for Barack Obama as Special Counsel to the
President on Ethics and Government Reform. Anticipating a deluge of
criticism over the thus-far ineffectual spending plan, Eisen has a
straightforward plan to deal with criticism. He’ll simply use the
power of the federal government to silence it. Problem solved!
Silencing dissent and criticism is “necessary under the unique
circumstances of the stimulus program”? Gee, what “unique
circumstances” might those be? Perhaps the fact that it costs more
than the Moon shot, and has yet to halt the economic skid. Maybe it’s
the fact that most of the stimulus package doesn’t actually stimulate anything except doctrinaire liberal dreams and the pens that check off the items from the Democratic wish list.
Remember when the Left took to the streets to declare dissent
“patriotic” during wartime? I didn’t have a problem with dissent then,
but apparently the Left has a curious definition of “patriotism”. Now,
suddenly, the federal government can silence their critics at will, not
to protect critical national-security programs or keep from undermining
a war effort, but to protect a Democratic president intent on seizing
control of private industry across a wide swath of the nation.
Suddenly, that kind of dissent threatens America.