Blighted Albion
Bookworm on Nov 06 2008 at 9:56 am | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, England
I’ve long seen Britain as a bellweather for progressive politics. Everything the Left wants in America, has already happened in Britain — and with truly disastrous results.
For a pithy summary of Britain’s horrible decline, don’t miss Melanie Phillips’ essay describing the ways in which Barack Obama reminds her of Tony Blair, and her description of Tony Blair’s goals and accomplishments. It may be (probably is) too late to save Britain, but we can still see it as a horrible example, and make sure that we don’t simply become supine and let an Obama administration take us in that direction.
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Tony Blair was part of the reason, one of the primary reasons, why Bush delayed at the UN: so as to give Tony Blair a justification to convince his people. Bush subordinated United States interests, with the concomitant increase in casualties given that Saddam had time to both know what was coming and to plan for it, based upon the fact that Bush liked Blair so much.
Blair didn’t want to leave when Bush offered him the chance, but if Blair wanted to stay he shouldn’t have dragged the US through the UN gutter. We have our reputation concerning civilians, tyrants, and children to consider, you know: even if Britain does not.
Well said, Y, well said!
If this were Bush’s only “bipartisan” moment, it would have been entirely acceptable to me. But when you make a list of all such Bush bipartisan moments, the list grows and grows and grows. Eventually you throw up your hands, and say, “My God, I finally have realized: The last eight years scarcely could be called conservative at ALL!”
Yes, we got an across the board tax cut, and stalwart continuance of the Iraq War, thankfully via the Surge. I’m grateful for those two points. Critically, we also got Samuel Alito and John Roberts on the Supreme Court. That’s two more points…
But in so many, many ways aside from these four points, there was a complete abandonment of conservatism.
As to Alito and Roberts, remember, Bush began one of those efforts by nominating Harriet Myers, no conservative judge at all. If he’d succeeded there – if the Democrats had been smart enough to enthusiastically support that and rush it through – we conservatives would have been fighting Bush tooth and nail, and all alone. As we had to fight him on Dubai Ports, and on illegal immigration. As we tried to fight on the Bush/Paulson bailout bill, and tried to fight the Medicare-B huge expansion, as we should have tried to fight on the nationalization of education policy. As we should have demanded that the $5 trillion expansion of the nation deficit not be allowed. And on and on and on and on and on and on…
“No one is totally useless. You can always serve as a bad example.”
I’m a fan of empire so I wasn’t against Dubai Ports: properly managed, of course, and not by Democrats, Leftists, or State Department agents.
Bush was the most moderate guy that the Democrats have ever seen. And they call him an extremist. A nice sign of what world the Dems live in.
When Bush got a Bill with Ted “Splash” Kennedy called No Child Left Behind, I was thinking “is this a way for Ted to insinuate that he is paying the debt for leaving her behind in his car?”
Bush should have known better than to support Ted Kennedy’s bill and give him more power. When it came to Iraq, guess where Kennedy used that power of his he got from Bush’s support.
If you can’t line item veto every damn bill from those Democrat opponent of yours in Congress, at least for God’s sake stop supporting them and their power base.