Peter Wehner answered Jonathan Alter's ridiculously easy challenge to prove Obama has been a bad president. Wehner's fact-based piece is shooting fish in a barrel. Unemployment, anemic economic growth, unprecedented deficit spending, worsening housing crisis, international enemies licking their chops... Wehner wraps it all up in a handy, user-friendly bulleted list.
Obama had a chance to be the next Reagan, but instead became a more flamboyantly inept Carter
Obama is not Carter, he's worse. Stephen Moore compares Obamanomics to Reaganomics, and it's not pretty for the Hope and Change crowd:
The two presidents have a lot in common. Both inherited an American economy in collapse. And both applied daring, expensive remedies. Mr. Reagan passed the biggest tax cut ever, combined with an agenda of deregulation, monetary restraint and spending controls. Mr. Obama, of course, has given us a $1 trillion spending stimulus.Is Perry the next Reagan?
By the end of the summer of Reagan's third year in office, the economy was soaring. The GDP growth rate was 5% and racing toward 7%, even 8% growth. In 1983 and '84 output was growing so fast the biggest worry was that the economy would "overheat." In the summer of 2011 we have an economy limping along at barely 1% growth and by some indications headed toward a "double-dip" recession. By the end of Reagan's first term, it was Morning in America. Today there is gloomy talk of America in its twilight.
I don't think so. Like FDR, Churchill or any other historical figure, there's only one, and the tales of crony crapitalism emanating from Austin give me pause. Still, Perry poses a credible challenge to both the Democratic and GOP establishments not seen since the rise of the Gipper.
The Republican establishment can't stand the guy because like Reagan, he's an outsider not beholden to the K Street Gucci contingent. And the Obama mouthpieces blabbing on about how they welcome a Perry challenge while feigning fear of a Romney or a Huntsman smacks a little too much of Brer Rabbit's "Please don't throw me in that briar patch!"
He's got Kinky Friedman's vote!
Here's what the singing humorist had to say...
I have been quoted as saying that when I die, I am to be cremated, and the ashes are to be thrown in Rick Perry’s hair. Yet, simply put, Rick Perry and I are incapable of resisting each other’s charm. He is not only a good sport, he is a good, kindhearted man, and he once sat in on drums with ZZ Top. A guy like that can’t be all bad. (Kinky Friedman - Rick Perry's got my vote)He closes with a hearty endorsement:
So would I support Rick Perry for president? Hell, yes! As the last nail that hasn’t been hammered down in this country, I agree with Rick that there are already too damn many laws, taxes, regulations, panels, committees, and bureaucrats. While Obama is busy putting the hyphen between “anal” and “retentive” Rick will be rolling up his sleeves and getting to work. (Kinky Friedman - Rick Perry's got my vote)President Obama is playing Jimmy Carter to a T, even besting that lugubrious president's dismal record. Can Rick Perry step in and fill Reagan's boots?
