Jon Stewart: Why are people screaming “my hair is on fire”?

Posted by therightscoop in Politics on Nov 19th, 2009 | View Comments

Lou Dobbs was on The Daily Show which gave Jon Stewart a chance to ask someone from the right side of the aisle why are suddenly people so afraid now that we have a new president? Here’s the first part of the interview (and you can find the 2nd and 3rd parts here):

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Exclusive – Lou Dobbs Extended Interview Pt. 1
www.thedailyshow.com

To Stewart’s credit, I think it’s a great question, however Dobbs does a terrible job of answering it. I think it deserves a better answer and mine would go something like this:

This is the first time that I can remember ever having a president who wanted to ‘fundamentally transform’ the country, not to simply just make it better. He’s the first president who has really taken a hard agenda on sharing the wealth, which can sound good in overtures, but can have drastic effects on the economy.  He’s the first president that I can remember who has hand picked so many appointees to his administration who not only look flatteringly at cesspools of power that thrive on oppressing their people, but have promoted very radical views of population control and controlling the media.  Add to that the fact that the democrats have a majority and seem to be completely unwilling to listen to the American public for which they serve.

Sure, this isn’t the first time that the left has tried to push government health care. And this isn’t the first time that we’ve seen big government spending out of control whether it be on the right or the left. But the difference here is that the Obama administration came in and the first thing on his spending agenda was to spend a trillion on a stimulus package which isn’t even close to living up to the expectations that they set.  In the first month in office, he has more than quadrupled the deficit from where it was in 2008. Have you ever seen this budget deficit graph from the Washington Post from March of this year?

This was before the proposed government health care and before the proposed cap and trade.  If spending was such a problem in the last administration, then why are we spending and spending and spending now instead? Did you not hear the words of David Walker, head of the GAO, in 2007?

The point is that this administration wants to ‘fundamentally transform’ this country in ways that we’ve never seen before. Whether you want to label him a facist or a socialist, Obama clearly has a collectivist agenda and seems hell bent on bringing this country to its economic knees to accomplish that goal. This country didn’t become a beacon of prosperity and freedom for the world by pushing collectivism. And this is why people are screaming “my hair is on fire”.



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  • Geoman
    I'll do you one better.

    By any conceivable objective measure John McCain should have one the presidency during the previous election. He was popular, had more experience the in government and the military, and was a known quantity. Obama was an inexperienced single term freshman senator. There was nothing in his resume to suggest he was remotely ready to be president. Obama won by promising to be all things to all people. He won by promising hope and change. Things would be different. Seemingly intractable problems would be solved.

    Gitmo. Whether you think it is an abomination or a necessity, people expected something. Instead Obama will say he hates it, then keep it open indefinitely.

    Wars. Win it or quit it, Obama can't seem to decide which.

    The financial meltdown. Any progress in making changes so it doesn't happen again?

    The budget. Now that we are in a massive recession it is the perfect time to propose even more spending.

    Racial issues: Being objective, has Obama made things better, or on several instances made things worse?

    Do our allies love us more? (no). Are our enemies more discomforted (no).

    On every issue, every problem, Obama has decided to either stay the course, make no decision at all, or make the worst possible decision. He has paid off his friends just like any other pol. He has wasted his time on things (the Olympics, foreign trips, etc.) that have no tangible value and benefit. He has consistently disengaged from the issues that people care about most.

    People sense there is a crises, but Mr. Cool just dispassionately lets things drift toward oblivion. He either doesn't understand the problems or just doesn't much care.

    Stewart doesn't get it either. GM, Chrysler, Citbank, AIG fall, and we're not supposed to be worried? Liberals complained that Iraq was a distraction from Afghanistan. Perhaps. But can't they see that everything that Obama has done or tried to do has been a distraction from the real problems facing this country? Yes, health care needs to be fixed. Is that the priority right this minute, to the exclusion of all else? Okay, say we fix health care. Why are things like tort reform immediately off the table? "Not that big a deal, maybe only a 5% savings". 5% of what? $2 trillion? "It is too hard to face down the trial lawyers" Sez who? And isn't that exactly what we elected you to do? Isn't Obama the magic man?

    And that is why people are going nuts. We bought this pig in a poke and have just realized how badly swindled we have been.

    It is going to get worse, not better. Obama promised extraordinary, and delivered less than ordinary. And there will be a bloodbath for the Dems in the next election. A third party may even form.

    And liberals like Stewart just don't get it. That is because their most critical problems have been solved Get rid of Bush. Mission accomplished! Elect a black man! Mission accomplished! Everything that comes after is just boring policy details. So why is everyone so upset?

    This has been building for several election cycles now. John Anderson. Ross Perot. Heck, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all won against entrenched, better known politicians. These guys got votes because they were supposed to change the status quo. It hasn't happened yet, and the patience of the American people is wearing awfully thing right now.

    I exect we'll get even more radical in our presidential selections in the future.
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    The word "isle" is short for "island".
    An "aisle" is a walking lane between objects that obstruct movement, like "Aisle 5" in the grocery store, or the aisle that divides the ruling party/coalition from the opposition in a legislative chamber. They are pronounced identically but have quite different meanings. Since both are actual words, spell-checkers are of no help in distinguishing one from the other.
  • Thanks Monster. I'm the worlds worst for typos.
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