President Obama's Toxic Brew
The Bulletin | 3/11/2009 | Joan Swirsky
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble. — Macbeth, Act 4
This incantation of the three demonic witches over their cauldron heralds the downfall of King Macbeth.
It’s not witches, but the three warlocks of the new administration — President Barack Obama, his chief Chicago-machine henchman Rahm Emanuel, and his tax-cheating Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner — who are boiling the American people in a cauldron of their own, not with poisoned entrails, eye of newt, or toe of frog, but with a fatal mixture of a trillion-dollars of so-called “stimulus” dollars, draconian tax hikes, doomed-to-fail bailouts, and additional healthcare and other expenditures that are, above all, designed to bankrupt the United States of America.
As people helplessly watch their life savings, 401(k)s, real estate assets, children’s college funds, financial viability, and everything that affects their jobs, security and investments vanish as the Stock Market hurtles downward toward its crashing point, they hear unmistakably gleeful cackles emanating from the leftist radicals who now occupy the Oval Office and the Congress.
Why are they cackling? Why are they gleeful? Because they have finally been catapulted into power and are now able to translate their deep loathing of everything that has made America great — free-market capitalism, the U.S. Constitution, small government, low taxes — into their own Socialist-cum-Marxist-cum-Communist vision.