Do Disasters Help Party Associated With Big Gov?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 6th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Do Disasters Help Party Associated With Big Gov?
John Dickerson, Slate
In the extended political argument over the size of the federal government, the last few weeks have favored Team Big. Wall Street excesses, the Gulf Coast oil disaster, the West Virginia mine collapse, the flooding in Tennessee and Kentucky, the Tylenol recall, and the Times Square bomber–it's a long list that reminds us that we depend on the federal government to ward off disaster or limit the damage afterwards.It would seem to be a good time to be a Democrat–the party that associates itself with activist government. Is it playing out that way?
Failure of Washington is Common Theme
Newt Gingrich, Human Events
The controversies over the Arizona immigration plan and the Obama Administration’s response to the oil spill in the Gulf may not seem related, but they have a key common characteristic: both originate in the failure of Washington.In both cases, President Obama faces a real danger of a political backlash from which he will be unable to recover.More importantly, they are both part of a rapidly evolving pattern of big government failure that will be a fundamental challenge to our country over the next quarter century.
