Lesson Learned From Clinton-Lewinsky: Ask the Right Question
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Thanks to stimulus money, Vice President Joe Biden announced a re-opening of a GM plant.
The people of Detroit are so excited; they'll be put to work once again! Of course, they'll have to commute... to Wilmington, Delaware. But hey, that's why they invented car-pooling.
The vice president made it pretty clear, as he cut the pretty ribbon, that the stimulus package is really nothing but a giant special interest package. Even President Obama's economic team admitted the best days of the stimulus will be behind us by mid-next year.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Umm, there were never any good days: Your actions hurt small businesses!
The first stimulus was a failure because it didn't jump-start the engine that creates 80 percent of jobs in this country: small businesses. While Biden is opening up GM plants in his hometown, small businesses (according to The Wall Street Journal) struggle to get loans and they are too scared to hire or expand; they sit paralyzed in fear as Obama gobbles up and re-structures large chucks of the economy.
At the same time he is hurting them, he pays them lip service:
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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Small businesses have always been the engine of our economy, creating 65 percent of all new jobs over the past decade and a half, and they must be at the forefront of our recovery. That's why the Recovery Act was designed to help small businesses expand and create jobs.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Your actions hurt small businesses, but your words heal. They don't match. Why? Is there possibly another agenda at play? Let me show you Barney Frank's words from Monday:
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REP. BARNEY FRANK, D-MASS.: We will be providing a mechanism for putting non-bank financial institutions out of everybody's misery. There will be death panels enacted by this Congress, but they will be for non-bank financial institutions that will not be considered too big to die. And I say that because we have this euphemism that we are going to be resolving these institutions. It has not been my experience that when someone says that they are going to resolve something, they kill it. We are talking about dissolution, not resolution. We are talking about making it unpleasant for the entities...
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Death panels for the free-market system... that's great. They get to control more and more companies — dictate salaries, companies can't takes the risks they want, pay CEOs what they want — but Tim Geithner has carte blanche to do anything he pleases with the $317 billion left in the TARP fund, no questions asked.
Is that the system you want?
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}I have been asking the wrong questions every night. I can't get answers from the White House even though they have a phone dedicated to them whose number only the communications director has. I think I have to stop expecting answers from them and I need to start asking you: What if I'm right? Does it matter?
I learned a critical lesson after Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal. When the news of the affair broke, almost everyone on the left said, "That's a right-wing lie. He didn't have sex with her." We'd say: "Yes he did." They'd say: "No, he didn't.
Remember?
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ROBERT S. BENNETT, CLINTON ATTORNEY: She's under oath saying there was nothing. The president adamantly denies it. I smell a rat in all of this.
BENNETT: This is about embarrassing the president of the United States of America — plain and simple.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FORMER FIRST LADY HILLARY CLINTON: I can state unequivocally that, as my husband has said, these are false allegations.
ANN LEWIS, FORMER WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: The president of the United States said that there was no sexual relationship. That's pretty clear language.
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, R-S.C.: I think we have an overwhelming case that the president did in fact perjure himself before the grand jury perjury, obstructed justice.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}REP. RAHM EMANUEL, D-ILL.: The only thing that matters is the truth as it pertains to two questions: Did he have a sexual relationship and did he ask her to lie? And the answer to that question is no and no.
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Then, after it turned out he did have sex with her, the left changed their tune to: "So? It doesn't matter. It doesn't affect how he governs the country."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}So, the lesson I learned was that we must ask the right question — right now. The question we should have asked at the beginning was: "OK, but what if he did; does it matter?"
The same thing is repeating itself all over again. These are Marxists. No, they aren't! Yes, they are. No, they aren't.
For almost a year now, this show has been virtually alone trying to piece this story together. The story that there are Marxists and anti-free market radicals in and around the White House. We should have seen them coming; it started with Joe the Plumber:
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THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: It's not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everyone who is behind you, that they've got a chance at success too.
Everybody is so pinched that business is bad for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.
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Was it confined to that one, isolated statement? If so, maybe I could understand the mind-numbing ignorance of the media.
Oh, gee whiz, Glenn, it was one comment, made in the heat of the campaign. Let it go.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}No, unfortunately, it started a long time ago:
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OBAMA: To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully: The more politically active black students; the foreign students; the Chicanos; the Marxist professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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But, gosh Glenn, that was college. Who wasn't a Marxist or, at least, who didn't hang out with Marxists and structural feminists in college?
Well, I didn't and I don't know anyone who did. But, let's fast forward to 2001:
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OBAMA: One of the, I think, the tragedies of the civil rights movement was, because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Couple that with this:
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THEN-PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE BARACK OBAMA: We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
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And I've made my case. And apparently it's such a strong case, that it's gone absolutely unchallenged that there are communists, revolutionaries, socialists, Marxists and followers of Chairman Mao appointed by Obama to executive branch positions in the government.
I even set up a phone with a direct line to the White House for them to call to correct any falsehood. That phone has never rung — not once. Why? Could it be, because the person on the other end of the line is one of the followers of Mao?
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ANITA DUNN, WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: The third lesson and tip actually come from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each another, but the two people that I turn to most...
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Even when they got rid of Van Jones — an admitted communist who shouted spreading the wealth ideology from the rooftops:
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VAN JONES, FORMER WHITE HOUSE GREEN JOBS 'CZAR': No more broken treaties! No more broken treaties! Give them the wealth! Give them the wealth!
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Even then, the administration never addressed the real issue. Nor have they addressed Anita Dunn's issue — apart from her lame excuse that she was joking. But no rational human being believes that, once they've heard the tape.
There has been no response to manufacturing "czar" Ron Bloom's bizarre disavowal of the free-market system:
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RON BLOOM, WHITE HOUSE MANUFACTURING 'CZAR': Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money because they are convinced that there is a free lunch. We know this is largely about power. That it's an adults-only, no-limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun...
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Or Mark Lloyd, the FCC's diversity "czar":
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MARK LLOYD, FCC DIVERSITY 'CZAR': In Venezuela, with Chavez, a really incredible revolution, a democratic revolution...
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Science "czar" John Holdren talked of the need to redistribute America's wealth:
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JOHN HOLDREN, WHITE HOUSE SCIENCE 'CZAR': I think ultimately, the rate of growth of material consumption is going to have to come down and there's going to have to be a degree of redistribution of how much we consume, in terms of energy and material resources, in order to leave room for people who are poor to become more prosperous.
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I've got hours of evidence. But let me just give you the latest one from — again — Barney Frank:
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FRANK: The right wing took control of government and ruined it. They gave it a bad reputation. Now that we are trying on every front to increase the role of government in the regulatory area, we run into this public opinion that says "Hey, those are the guys who screwed up Katrina."
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I mean, at this point, you have to be trying not to pay attention to miss this pattern. There is so much anti-free market rhetoric from Obama and his top officials, you'd either have to have been living in a cave in Afghanistan with bin Laden and a herd of goats or you are so deeply in love with Obama, that you can't detect a single flaw in him.
But, if you still don't see it, ask yourself: If it were true, would it matter?
America, you must decide. Stop having the "they're Marxist; no, they're not" argument and ask yourself this question:
Of all the things we've told you and were right about — the dollar; the banking crisis; the stimulus; TARP; Van Jones; Anita Dunn; Anita Dunn's husband; the "czars"; ACORN; cars.gov — I could be wrong that these groups or people are all Marxist, but they are definitely not friendly to the free market system.
So, forget the label — I don't care if you call them Fred-ists — look at what they are doing to the free-market system. They are dismantling it brick-by-brick, which are the exact words that one of the advisers on the media to this president has called for: Dismantling capitalism brick-by-brick.
Are you willing to have the greatest force the world has ever seen — freedom and the free-market system — go away in the middle of the night — taken from you, from your children — while you argue the wrong question with your friends?
Decide now: Do you believe in the free market? Because what if I'm right?
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