Obama's Ancien Régime

UK Telegraph  blogger Nile Gardiner wrote an important piece entitled : "Barack Obama’s extravagant Ancien Régime  tells the American people: let them eat taxes."  Gardiner chose the french term for "old order" as it relates to the French Revolution of 1789. At the time of the revolution Marie Antoinette, a member of the royal family, was alleged to have uttered a nasty remark in answer to a plea that "peasants had no bread." She supposedly responded: "Let them eat cake."

The French Revolution came on the heels of the Enlightenment. People in France were ready for a change from the old ways of doing business. The king, Louis XVI, had been spending profligately and needed money [note: sounds just like Obama].

Nile Gardiner pointed out Obama's " oozing elitist contempt for public opinion and the views of ordinary American people"  at his press conference where the president fabricated the untruth that "80% of Americans want tax increases."  Gardiner notes the latest Rasmussen poll that found 55% of Americans oppose a tax hike to finance an increase in the debt ceiling and another Rasmussen poll that found only one in four Americans expressed any support for tax increases.  Then there is the recent Gallup poll discovered that only 16% of Americans believe the country is headed in the right direction. The Telegraph  article should be read in its entirety here.

The last time that I checked, the TEA Party was not headed by a head-chopper like Robespierre, but I am reminded that Spanish philosopher George Santayana famously said:  ""Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."  I must sadly conclude that our narcissistic president is incapable of listening to anyone about turning the "unsinkable" ship that is America away from a collision with an economic iceberg.  So much to do, so little time!