Regime Uncertainty Watch: FDR Edition

Obama Channels FDR–Again | Power Line: "Liberals who hoped that Obama would be the second coming of Franklin Roosevelt, delivering a new New Deal, were ironically right all along.  As we know from the increasing volume of revisionist research like Amity Shlaes’s book The Forgotten Man or Jim Powell’s FDR’s Folly or Burt Folsom’s New Deal or Raw Deal? (just to name three book-length treatments of the subject), the New Deal helped put the “great” in the Great Depression.  And Obama seems to be trying to emulate most of FDR’s same mistakes.

One of them concerns the uncertainty the economy faces right now with regard to regulations, tax rates, trade policy, and the nation’s fiscal future.  At the most recent meeting of Obama’s private sector jobs council (the one chaired by GE CEO Jeff Immelt), at least one member mentioned business uncertainty to Obama, and he waved it off, mentioning a recent New York Times article he’d read saying this factor was badly exaggerated.  (Irwin Stelzer has a great takedown of Obama’s jobs council up at the Weekly Standard.)"

He's an ignorant, self-absorbed jack*ss just like virtually the entire leadership of his Democrat Socialist party.

This is definitely a RTWT as it includes a quote from Raymond Moley's out-of-print book about his souring on and leaving the FDR administration for reasons that are being replayed by O Duce.

BTW, one of the reasons I call him O Duce is as a reference to Mussolini of course, who FDR held in high esteem at least until he had to fight him.

That and the fact that depending on what aspect of our modern Leviathan you are examining, Fascist is a perfectly useful word. Along with cronyist, socialist, corruptocratic, merchantilist, nannyist ... well, add your own to the list.

And yes, bad Bush, bad, bad Bush for all you adult children out there that are Borgs of the Socialist religion. At least Bush didn't want the country to fail on purpose even though he suffered many of the same maladies as O Duce.

Did I forget to mention that I seem to have lost track of how many wars O Duce has started? See last night's Friday document dump from the WH that includes troops to Uganda. One is reminded of Mussolini's conquest of Ethopia which is just a stone's throw away...