The Daily Plunge

Jacob Weisberg of Slate does his best job of releasing a White House press release. Here’s example number one:

Through the summer, Obama caught flak for letting Congress lead the process, as opposed to setting out his own proposal. Now his political strategy is being vindicated. The bill he signs may be flawed in any number of ways–weak on cost control, too tied to the employer-based system, and inadequate in terms of consumer choice. But given the vastness of the enterprise and the political obstacles, passing an imperfect behemoth and improving it later is probably the only way to succeed where his predecessors failed.

Obama is a genius! He’s so brilliant that he knows that it’s better to sign a horrible bill and fix it later. Since the bill doesn’t take effect for years he won’t have to fix it himself. Let’s start building a monument. Weisberg goes on…

It’s easy to lose sight of the magnitude of the impending change. For the federal government to take responsibility for health coverage will be a transformation of the American social contract and the single biggest change in government’s role since the New Deal. If Obama governs for four or eight years and accomplishes nothing else, he may be judged the most consequential domestic president since LBJ. He will also undermine the view that Ronald Reagan permanently reversed a 50-year tide of American liberalism.

Oh, so that’s what this is about; undermining Ronald Reagan. I think Weisberg might be on to something. Obama may be reversing the 50-year tide of American liberalism. The President ran as a moderate and his governing as a liberal. He’s pushing legislation Americans are against. It’s really a kamikaze strategy. Democrats look like they’re willing to take a beating at the polls to pass any kind of health care bill. Weisberg officially goes off the reservation with the next claim.

There’s mounting evidence that the $787 billion economic stimulus he signed in February–combined with the bank bailout package–prevented an economic depression.

Mounting evidence? There’s no evidence to suggest that the pork laden “stimulus bill” has done anything productive let alone prevent “an economic depression.” That claim is preposterous. By any standard this year has been difficult for President Obama; however, liberals like Weisberg are so ideologically biased they’re unable to see the forest for the trees. I’m not the only one puzzled by the alternative universe Weisberg is living in. Byron York asks a good question.

What sort of article could Weisberg and other Obama admirers write on January 20 if health care were to fail.

I’m sure they’ll pin blame on racist white males. I’m cynical so I believe the entitlement train is moving inevitability towards a totalitarian state and I wonder if Weisberg and other liberal really even care. Deep down perhaps they’d love an all powerful state that silents critics and controls everyone’s lives.