If you really want to be depressed about the budget deal just struck, read Mark Steyn’s post at NRO. But as an addendum to what Heartland Institute budget experrt Steve Stanek said earlier, I offer some of the thoughts of Victor Davis Hanson on Obama’s budget speech. Hanson has spent a lot of time trying to deeply analyze the meanings of the words Obama utters — going back to his 2008 campaign. And Hanson says of Wednesday’s presidential utterances:
a) Has Obama in his past careers never been called to account and so reached a point where simply being Obama means that we are not supposed to apply standards of accuracy, memory, and consistency to him in the way we do to all others?
d) Or is he so cynical that he understands campaign rhetoric has nothing to do with actual governance, and so he is allowed to say something that he knows in advance that he is not bound to follow?
e) Or is he so bored with the trying job that he feels no responsibility to offer reliable, consistent governance, and so rashly throws things out and then hastens back to the more enjoyable PR aspects of the office?
To read the excellent missing parts of this VDH excerpt, go here.
