Washington Times Editorial: Never waste a good crisis

Never waste a good crisis March 16, 2009 Washington Times Editorial

(I just re-read this – and it is really worth sharing… Kevin Dayhoff)

"Never waste a good crisis" has become the semi-official motto of the Obama administration.

We first heard it from the Machiavellian Rahm Emmanuel last November, when he said "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. … It's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before." The gaffe-prone Hillary Clinton echoed this sentiment in Europe earlier this month. Then President Obama, in his Saturday radio address, urged America to "discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis."

Emergencies call for urgent responses that allow little time for substantive debate. That is why ambitious pols treat them like winning lottery tickets. In one sense, we can't blame them. Some lawmakers have been quietly feeding their pet ideas since the Watergate crisis or the recession of 1982. They missed out back then and won't see another chance in their lifetimes. So every aged idea got crated onto the stimulus bill. One thing we can say about this Congress: It has learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

Read the rest here: Never waste a good crisis

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/16/obamanomics/

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