"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before." - White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
*gift selection*...
It's also a reworking of the Cloward-Piven Strategy and--according to some--a link in a chain going back to Saul Alinsky.
Yes, the very least. But from my perspective, it's worse, since 9-11 did herald a security crisis, whilst many of the new crises are being manufactured.at the very least, it's the same mentality that the left accused bush of possessing in his use of 9-11 as a vehicle with which to ram through his agenda.
I wouldn't be so sure about the latter. Even rob's starting to hint at insurrection.obama can't lose. if he pulls us out of this (fat chance), he can claim victory and brilliance and messiah-hood and claim a mandate for his deeper-reaching agenda.
if he fails, people will be crawling to his table for whatever crumbs he might toss.
Heh.
Do none of you understand how bad our economy really is?
Clinton reminded us that we need to know what the definition of words are. We assumed we all knew what Obama meant when he said 'change'.