Peter Ferrara, American Spectator: Obama’s Responsibility.
Obama ran for President as a champion of the middle class. But yesterday he seemed to be threatening it, saying, “And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders, nor can we consume the world’s resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change along with it.” Despite Obama’s long campaign, I still don’t know what change he is talking about here, and neither does America’s middle class. America can best help the world’s poor by leading a global economic boom, as it did from 1982 to 2007, the greatest period of worldwide prosperity in the history of the planet, as Art Laffer and Steve Moore have recently written. But if Obama thinks he is going to save the world through American austerity and deprivation, then the American people will be asking, what happened to the government that works?
Obama concluded yesterday by saying, “What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition on the part of every American that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.”
We didn’t hear much during the campaign about responsibility, duties to the world, and giving our all to difficult tasks. What I remember hearing is a tax cut for 95% of workers, and “if you are in the bottom 95% your taxes will go down, not up,” and that there will be no tax increase on the bottom 95% of income earners. So the minute Obama and his liberal Democrats propose a tax increase for anyone in the bottom 95%, I expect the American people to hold them responsible, you betcha.
Andrew Cline: Obama vs. James Madison.
Fred Barnes: The Only Thing We Have to Fear. . .
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