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No Crisis Should Go to Waste

Soapweed

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http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/09/02/rahm-emanuels-misguided-mantra-no-crisis-should-go-to-waste/



Rahm Emanuel's Misguided Mantra: 'No Crisis Should Go to Waste'

Walter Shapiro
Senior Correspondent

"No crisis should go to waste," Emanuel told the Washington Post for its post-election edition, stressing that he was speaking for himself as an Illinois congressman -- and not Barack Obama. Two weeks later, having been named White House chief of staff, Emanuel gave his mantra the presidential imprimatur as he told a conference of business leaders organized by the Wall Street Journal: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. . . . Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."

Now with the glub-glub economy going down for the third time and almost certainly taking congressional Democrats with it, Emanuel's aphorism about the can-do benefits of a crisis seems more likely to make the Hubris Hall of Fame than the next edition of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations." At minimum, with the benefit of hindsight, it should be rewritten as "No crisis can fester for two years without dire political consequences."

It is no secret that early on the Obama economic team misjudged how high the unemployment rate would soar -- and how intractable the crisis would become. In contrast, Nobel Prize-winning liberal economist Paul Krugman presciently warned in a New York Times column written just after the 2008 election, "Democrats won big last week -- but they won even bigger in 1936, only to see their gains evaporate after the recession of 1937-38. Americans don't expect instant economic results from the incoming administration, but they do expect results, and Democrats' euphoria will be short-lived if they don't deliver an economic recovery."
 

Tam

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The Dems. don't want to solve any crisis, not when they are using them to sell another hugh spending bill that will somehow turn into a pay back for a Democrat donor.

The Democrats were doomed election night when they started ignoring the voters and pushing their "never waste a crisis" agenda. And so was the US economy.
 

hypocritexposer

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I kinda agree with him.


'No Crisis Should Go to Waste'


the real crisis is not so much the "worst downturn since the depression", but how the progressives in power are managing it. There's a great opportunity that should not be wasted at this time.


Vote them out. :D
 

Lonecowboy

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Lately it's been like watching a bunch of teen agers after a weekend party-
(never let a good weekend with the parents gone go to waste)

most deny they were there-
some deny it ever happened-
some say it happened but they weren't part of it-
some finally admit, it happened, and they were there, but they didn't drink
( everyone there claims to be the designated driver looking out for the others)
some are working to cover up the evidence-
most try to blame someone else-
most are lying -
and all are running scared-


Turn out the lights- the party is over!
 
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