Legal Commentary

Post-Partisanship? I Finally Figured It Out!

One of the most prominent planks in Obama?s campaign platform was his promise to move beyond (or above) partisanship.Many observers have thus been confused or disappointed by the currently unfolding reality of President Obama?s economic agenda for the nation, consisting as it does of the conversion of one liberal wish list after another into government policy with little, often no, input from Republicans.

A real mystery, no?, even after the campaign promises have been discounted by the amount usually applied to campaign promises.

Well, no. It?s a mystery no more. I have finally figured it out.

In our recent political history ? in fact, even going back into the not so recent past ? Democrats have been the tax and spend party, and Republicans have been the borrow and spend party. Obama?s signal accomplishment in his first two months in office has indeed been his transcendence of that old partisan divide.

The Democrats under Obama?s leadership have now become the party committed to both tax and spend and borrow and spend, taking both taxing and borrowing to heretofore undreamed of heights (or depths).

Full post as published by Discriminations on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).