"Get the people to love you for giving them a pep talk that lifts their spirits--even as you impose policies that dash their hopes."

 

Cox & Forkum have published at their blog for the first time in a long while, linking to this RealClearPolitics post:

The "Can-Do" Economy-Killer by Robert Tracinski.

Obama is offering the basic Roosevelt method or formula: buoyant American "can-do" optimism--in the service of the economy-killing agenda of a high-taxing, high-spending welfare and regulatory state. Get the people to love you for giving them a pep talk that lifts their spirits--even as you impose policies that dash their hopes.

If Obama is identical to FDR in his basic method, all we can hope that he does not achieve the same result: another ten years of economic collapse.