While the nonpartisan National Journal found Barack Obama to be the Senate's most liberal member in 2007, Obama deflects his liberal labeling as "old politics".
In an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal Peter Wehner notes that, "Mr. Obama's effort to present himself as a post-ideological figure is an effort to avoid an important national debate."
Americans will soon learn that Obama's economic policy proposes higher income taxes, higher Social Security taxes and higher corporate taxes -- even though the US already has the world's second highest corporate tax rate, and is losing jobs because of it. He seeks domestic spending increases and more layers of government regulation. His health care plan would greatly expand the government's role.
Presumably his first act to "restore America's image in the world" would be to null and void an existing treaty with our neighbors, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he has railed against on the campaign trail. Next, he would abandon our allies in Iraq.
He stands against the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a partial birth abortion ban, and wants to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. He was on the 22 side of a 78-22 Senate vote to approve John Roberts for the Supreme Court. This is one of the Senate's most partisan members.
Post-idealogue, or not, Barack Obama is a doctinaire liberal.
In an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal Peter Wehner notes that, "Mr. Obama's effort to present himself as a post-ideological figure is an effort to avoid an important national debate."
Americans will soon learn that Obama's economic policy proposes higher income taxes, higher Social Security taxes and higher corporate taxes -- even though the US already has the world's second highest corporate tax rate, and is losing jobs because of it. He seeks domestic spending increases and more layers of government regulation. His health care plan would greatly expand the government's role.
Presumably his first act to "restore America's image in the world" would be to null and void an existing treaty with our neighbors, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he has railed against on the campaign trail. Next, he would abandon our allies in Iraq.
He stands against the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a partial birth abortion ban, and wants to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. He was on the 22 side of a 78-22 Senate vote to approve John Roberts for the Supreme Court. This is one of the Senate's most partisan members.
Post-idealogue, or not, Barack Obama is a doctinaire liberal.
2 comments:
I am a post-Conservative. It doesn't eliminate the debate. It does change it, however. To continue to argue on old (or passing) ideological labels exclusively does not fully recognize the evolving ideological thought in our country and in our world.
Obama's positions are 100% consistent with the old (or passing) idealogical label. There is nothing new except the delivery. Same product line, new salesman.
Where is the evolving ideological (post-partisan) thought in his platform? He's the candidate of hyper-partisans such as MoveOn and Jerry Wright.
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