http:\/\/bit.ly\/98LSSY<\/a>), this administration is driving the nation towards permanent deficits that exceed the one year peak of World War II.\u00a0 Such levels would cripple our economic growth for decades to come, transform our national ethos from one of independence and striving to dependence and passivity, and end our status as the world\u2019s economic and security superpower.\u00a0 If these policies are not the marks of extremism, what is?<\/p>\nSo the morning headlines that the administration is after them are good news for the Tea Party and its sympathizers.\u00a0 It was alarm at government spending as well as what that spending implied for future taxing and growth that got the Tea Party started in the first place.\u00a0 Every time the administration has tried to dismiss those legitimate and serious minded concerns, it has merely seen the movement grow in response.\u00a0 Now, the idea is, apparently, to package this counterproductive message into an ad campaign.\u00a0 Genius.<\/p>\n
But the desperation politics of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid crowd aside, something deeply consequential is going on and it is not confined to the United States.<\/p>\n
In Britain, Germany, almost in Australia, and in a number of other countries parties and coalitions have taken power in the last two years dedicated to rolling back government spending and reducing government power.\u00a0 Despite misreading the forces that led to its election, the Obama Administration came to power for the same reasons, public disgust at too much government spending, taxing, and controlling.<\/p>\n
Now the president\u2018s mantra is that the Republican\u2019s started the spending spree.\u00a0 And in this he and the Tea Party agree. \u00a0In the past decade, voters who wanted to see government and its spending limited came to understand that many office holders elected under the banner of limited government had walked away from that commitment once they got to Washington.\u00a0 That is why there is a Tea Party.\u00a0 And that is why the president is in such trouble.\u00a0 Many of those voters expected in the Obama administration a return to the later Clinton-GOP Congress years, which they remembered as a time of spending restraint and budget surpluses.\u00a0 Instead they got the exact opposite.<\/p>\n
For decades political scientists have debated the reason for the great movements of American politics.\u00a0 Could it be demographics or values or industrialization or what?\u00a0 I believe that every great movement in the American political alignment (I suspect this is true in other democratic countries, as well) has been driven by changes in the global economy.\u00a0 Following the collapse of the European economy in World War I, the policies appropriate for our rising and remote country were no longer appropriate, and after about a decade our politics caught up.\u00a0 By the early 70\u2019s, Europe had recovered from the two wars.\u00a0 New policies were needed, and about a decade later our politics adjusted.<\/p>\n
The Obama administration has tried and spectacularly failed to return to the 1930s political paradigm.\u00a0 They will now try to scare the rest of us back to their political future.\u00a0 They will have money.\u00a0 They will be loud. \u00a0They will not succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is good times for the Tea Party movement. I am not talking about winning Republican Senate nominations in Delaware, Alaska, Kentucky, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and without firing a shot in Florida.\u00a0 Nor am I talking about a Christian Science Monitor poll last week that found a near majority of Americans view Tea with sympathy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-commentary-general","tag-hugh-hewitt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}