BHO Working Hard to Be an Even Worse President Than LBJ
Pat Buchanan Writes:
Full of hubris in 1965, Lyndon Johnson had seized his moment. He had launched a Great Society that would outdo his beloved patron FDR. He would dispatch 500,000 troops to Vietnam to “bring the coonskin home on the wall” and create a “Great Society on the Mekong.” Those were heady days of “guns-and-butter.”
LBJ was riding on what he mistook for a mandate for change.
Why did LBJ fail? He overloaded the circuits. He tried to do it all. He misread a national desire for continuity after Kennedy’s death as a mandate for a lunge to the left and a great leap forward with the largest expansion of government since the New Deal.
It’s obvious to any casual political observer that Barack Hussein Obama is ignoring the lessons of history and is determined to eclipse LBJ as the worst president in US history, which may come as a relief to Jimmy Carter, if that fool ever paid enough attention.
History never repeats itself exactly. But Barack Obama is making the same mistakes today that LBJ made in 1965.
As full of hubris as LBJ was in 1965, BHO plows recklessly ahead.
He has ordered 17,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan, as the situation deteriorates and the NATO allies pull out. He has no exit strategy. He has read a repudiation of George Bush as a mandate for a government seizure of wealth and power that exceeds anything attempted in the Great Society.
BHO will preside over spending that will only be half covered by taxes and will have to print or borrow the rest. Yet he is still determined to run a deficit four times as large as Bush and has called to tax the successful into oblivion to pay for his expansion on LBJ’s Great Society theme.
In spite of a global recession BHO is determined to run an industry killing cap-and-trade scheme to head off a global warming crisis many scientists believe is a hoax. In addition BHO is going to cure cancer, eliminate paralysis, and provide free college and health care to anyone inside the US Border, legal or not.
Obama is misreading the election returns. When America voted to cancel the White House lease of Mr. Bush, it did not vote Barack Obama a blank check.
By misinterpreting his mandate, Obama has accomplished something John McCain could not — unite the Republican Party and instill in it a new esprit de corps. For the Obama budget is an insult to the core belief of the party — that free people, not coercive government, should shape the character of society.
It now falls to us to sweep this buffoon out of office as soon as possible and save our country, if there is anything left to save.
