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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Is DeMint comparing Obama to Big Brother?

Posted by Chris Haire on Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:06 PM

You know, you got to love it when Jim DeMint grants an interview to one of the more extreme right wing media outlets. Whenever he does, it seems he can't resist saying something outlandish, whether he's chatting with Pat Robertson's Ego News Network about the never-going-to-happen Fairness Doctrine or to Net Right Nation about stimulus-package riots.

Now, he's chatting it up with the folks at NewsMax (the home of Dick Morris and Gallagher 2 ... oops, I mean David Limbaugh.)

“When I read George Orwell’s novel ‘1984,’ I would almost smile because I would think that could never happen,” DeMint says, referring to the power of the state to subsume the truth. “But he [Obama] really is saying one thing and meaning the complete opposite. He is presenting a complete redefinition of words and ideas.”

DeMint cites Obama’s claim at his most recent news conference that his budget moves America “from an era of borrow and spend” to “save and invest.” At the same time, Obama defended adding another $9.3 trillion to the national debt, doubling the amount in six years and nearly tripling the debt in 10 years, according to figures from the Congressional Budget Office.

Ouch. I hate to say it, but DeMint may have a point about the Obama double-speak.

Of course, DeMint had to go ruin my new found appreciation of him.

DeMint believes that Obama and his people do not appreciate capitalism.

“I think we’ve got hardly anyone in the administration today who’s ever been in the private sector in any significant way. So they have not seen a small company start and create a job,” DeMint says. “I really do think it’s the intellectual elite here now, who don’t believe in capitalism, who are running our country.”

Ladies and gentlemen, the Socialists...

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Okay Chris, How does that last statement "ruin my new found appreciation of him"? Are you saying that is an outrageous charge? Can we point out a few folks in the Obama Administration that have successfully created, ran, or managed a private small business? Just asking... Honestly I haven't done the research, yet... but I also am not insinuating that I know something and not saying it... And are you honestly saying that the Obama policies do NOT lean toward bigger government and socialism? If you are for big Government than say it, don't be ashamed of it... Or try and “cleverly” disguise it by patronizing dismissive comments like “Ladies and gentlemen, the Socialists…” Just because I think Big government is everything America is not supposed to be, doesn't mean you or others can't proudly proclaim your socialist tendencies... America was built for FREEDOM from government, not dependency on it. The American economy was built on Capitalism, not Government Socialist Programs and Subsidies... Look at history it will show you the way... When government involves itself in the business of the people it is the people that suffer... “They are always under the dominion of the superstition of government, and forgetting that a government produces nothing at all, they leave out of sight the first fact to be remembered in all social discussion -- that the state cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man." - William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man

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