Obama in the Morning

How about a little Obama in the morning? Let me clarify, Obama in the morning = a hand full of stupid pills and a cup of coffee. Does that sound appealing? It does to a lot of people. Here are some comments from Mark Steyn in the National Review:

Apparently, nothing testifies to the American virtues of self-reliance, entrepreneurial energy and the can-do spirit like joining the vast army of robotic extras droning in unison, “The government needs to do more for me…”

Most Americans don’t yet grasp the scale of the Obama project. The naysayers complain, oh, it’s another Jimmy Carter, or it’s the new New Deal, or it’s LBJ’s Great Society applied to health care… You should be so lucky. Forget these parochial nickel’n’dime comparisons. It’s all those multiplied a gazillionfold and nuclearized – or Europeanized, which is less dramatic but ultimately more lethal. For a distressing number of American liberals, the natural condition of an advanced, progressive western democracy is Scandinavia, and the US has just been taking a wee bit longer to get there.

Even in its heyday – the Sixties and Seventies - the good times in Europe were underwritten by the American security guarantee: The only reason why France could get away with being France, Belgium with being Belgium, Sweden with being Sweden is because America was America. Kagan’s thesis – Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus – will look like paradise lost when the last conventional “great power” of western civilization embraces the death-cult narcissism of its transatlantic confreres in the full knowledge of where that leads. Why would you do anything so crazy? Ah, but these are crazy times: Europeans are from Pluto, Americans are from Goofy.

I wonder what else Obama could do to ensure that America can never recover. I guess I will just have to wait a couple of weeks to see what he does next. The only possible upside I can see to all of Obama’s destruction is that if we become just like much of Europe, then maybe we can follow in their footsteps regarding beer production. Anyone want to share a Heineken and watch America become the next Amsterdam?