| Democrats and "client-ism"; a great essay | |
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| Joan Foster | May 28 2012, 06:00 AM Post #1 |
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The Dems and their "clients"....how patronage ruined the party. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/05/25/how_big_government_patronage_ruined_the_democratic_party_114238-3.html "The Obama Administration has seen the consequences of this logic play itself out fully. Unlike Carter and Clinton before him, who at least tried to tame the party clients, President Obama has time and again acceded to their demands, at the expense of the public good. The stimulus bill, designed by congressional Democrats with Obama’s blessing, pumped $800 billion into the economy, largely through Democratic clients like labor, environmental groups, and African Americans. Obama followed that up with a bailout of the auto industry that gave the United Auto Workers much more than they would have won in bankruptcy court, then proceeded as if the economic crisis had passed. His financial reform legislation was highly preferential to his big-money donors on Wall Street; his cap-and-trade bill tried to award environmentalists, well-heeled businesses, and the poor in one fell swoop; and his health care bill is the apogee of anti-republican, liberal clientelism, a sprawling, trillion-dollar payoff to an array of groups that leaves the average American in no better shape. The 2010 midterms saw the worst drubbing for the Democratic party since 1938 as the GOP won control of the House of Representatives—due punishment for Obama’s focus on the party clients at the expense of the national interest *** In his veto of the Bank of the United States, Democratic party founder Andrew Jackson, “Old Hickory,” as he was known, declared, “There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.” It is ironic that Jackson’s heirs would come to stand for exactly what he opposed. But above all it is tragic. It is tragic because the United States needs a healthy, two-party system, and more to the point it needs the Democratic party. There is a reason, after all, that the party survived the disastrous presidencies of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, both of which contributed mightily to the onset of the Civil War; survived Grover Cleveland’s handling of the Panic of 1893; survived the rebuke suffered by the Woodrow Wilson administration in 1920; survived the “credibility gap” of the LBJ administration; and survived the incompetence of the Carter administration. It is in part because the party’s core message—as articulated by Jackson nearly two centuries ago—still resonates to this day. America is a radically egalitarian country, at least in its outlook; the people are inherently skeptical about special privileges and always ready to listen to a political party that promises an equal playing field. Today’s Democratic leaders talk a lot about equality, but their actions speak louder than their words. The party has come to play a double game—complaining loudly about inequality in society while enacting policies to advance the interests of its own clients. This has created a void in the body politic—one that the Republican party, which has long been the party of economic expansion rather than the ideal of social equality, is simply not able to fill. With the exception of the Tea Party, there is no real faction out there making the case for an end to special privilege." |
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| Joan Foster | May 28 2012, 06:10 AM Post #2 |
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We see this "client-ism" is the special treatment of the Black Panthers because of their allegiance to Dem party "clients." We see client-ism in the reporting of Dem controlled news media in the slanting/editing of stories to favor Dem "clients"...and most outrageously, we now see Dem clients getting special treatment in the justice system, where their privileges as "clients" trump existing Law. |
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| kbp | May 28 2012, 08:06 AM Post #3 |
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He provided a minimal across the board increase in everything, which means our government grew as our economy dwindled, go figure. A huge chunk of his play money – about $250 billion of his Stimulus - went to fund free programs, growth in departments giving out free programs and, the largest percentage, to pay citizens for not working and fund growth in state government departments that managed funds to prevent services from shrinking any (teachers, LE, whatever state employees they had). FREE MONEY for cooperating and adhering to federal policies set up to manage states. We saw $160-180 billion go “GREEN”, which seemed to land big chunks in some special pockets in route to funding the upside down savings …the subsidized cost offset by higher prices regulations created in businesses depending on fossil fuels. That client list, while going direct to many he had to scratch their backs for campaign obligations, reached the “consensus” crowd to cure the rise of the seas. Obamacare is much more difficult to decipher. Somebody benefits from the cost increases, but it seems to be promises of future security going mostly to the ever-growing crowd that relies on the government to fund their living expenses. If one had to pick a single “client”, it would be Mr. Government. The HHS budget grew into a mammoth monster, one that would directly manage states that do not openly cooperate. The overall “client-ism” gains go to all that rely on BIGGER government …the family descendants of Mr. Socialism, and all who have applied for the dependence checks, which provides the automatic change-of-name to become a member of that family. Edited by kbp, May 28 2012, 08:07 AM.
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| Baldo | May 28 2012, 09:50 AM Post #4 |
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He is what he is. Just what we said he was in Oct 2008. Just a disastrous Presidency for the USA |
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