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The New York Times Week in Review yesterday had a fascinating cover story or front-page story: “From FDR to GWB, Can Anyone Unseat FDR?” and I said, “Hmm, shazam! Something\u2019s happening here, folks.” In the first place have you noticed that presidential initials are almost the exclusive province of liberals? We\u2019ve had FDR. We had JFK. We had LBJ. But we didn\u2019t have any JEC, Jimmy (Earl) Carter. We had no RWR, Ronald Wilson Reagan. We had no GHWB, but we\u2019ve always had these initials for Democrat liberal presidents and FDR and JFK are the two biggies. But this story yesterday, “From FDR to GWB, Can Anyone Unseat FDR?” I think after all the whacks upside the head the liberals may be starting to pause and think about what is facing them, and I think part of this is Bush is intent to reform Social Security. This is the New Deal as far as they\u2019re concerned and that\u2019s their whole legacy, don\u2019t misunderstand and mistake how important preserving Social Security as FDR designed it is to the liberals\u2019 future, and so now they\u2019re looking at Bush taking on FDR! That\u2019s how they\u2019re going to try to position it to the liberal intelligentsia. “He\u2019s gonna what? He\u2019s going to try to unseat FDR? Why, we can\u2019t allow that to happen!”<\/line>But the fact on that they\u2019re even considering <\/emphasize>that it\u2019s a possibility has caused them pause. Bush delivered a stirring inaugural address, and the media reaction to it was as interesting as the words themselves. I mean, as I went through Friday, in a brilliant monolog, it\u2019s unfathomable to me that the paranoia and the controversy a speech extolling the virtues of human freedom and liberty have caused in the American left. Imagine, if you will, the adulation, the adoration, the applause if, say, that message had been delivered by FDR or JFK or even Mario Cuomo. If Mario Cuomo had given that speech why they\u2019d still be having weekend orgasms over it. Can you imagine if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had delivered the words in Bush\u2019s second inaugural? Why, I mean, they\u2019d be beside themselves with praise. I think that the media has yet to understand. Well, I know that they have yet to understand and appreciate and accept that Bush is a legitimate president. They still believe he\u2019s illegitimate, that he represents that “tantrum” thrown by a bunch of two-year-olds that Peter Jennings said on the radio following the 2000 elections, but this piece “From FDR to GWB, Can Anyone Unseat FDR?” <\/line><\/p>\n

When the New York Times can wake up to a discussion of FDR\u2019s New Deal and Bush\u2019s new <\/emphasize>New Deal, even if they\u2019re doing it from the prism of fear, you have to realize that reality is setting in on these people. Not all of them, and it may only be a temporary glancing blow. They may still maneuver themselves into utter denial. But how many two-by-four whacks across the head does it take to reach a liberal? For instance, they didn\u2019t get it when he was inaugurated the first time. They didn\u2019t get it when he dealt with terrorism successfully. They didn\u2019t get it when he revived a depressed economy. They didn\u2019t get it when he held the House and the Senate in \u201902. They didn\u2019t get it when he won reelection and increased his congressional majorities. They didn\u2019t get it when Afghanistan voted. They didn\u2019t get it when Ukraine got the vote and voted, and now on the verge of Iraq and its first vote after his vision address, after his resolve on Social Security reform, maybe enough of these two-by-four compaction across the head are starting to get it. There\u2019s also a story…where is this? <\/line>This is Todd Lindbergh. He\u2019s a conservative writer, but this is from SignOnSanDiego.com a San Diego newspaper: “Bush\u2019s Complex Personality Confounds Experts.” Oh, really? Complex personality? I thought he was a dunce? <\/emphasize>I thought Bush was an ignoramus and a cowboy? I thought Bush was an intellectual inferior. I thought he was a frat boy. I thought he had no depth or substance. I thought Dick Cheney ran the White House? Now they\u2019re all concerned about Bush\u2019s “complexity.” So, you know, at some point the big picture is going to have to dawn on these people as to what Bush\u2019s vision is and what is happening. We\u2019re going to have elections in Iraq on Sunday. We\u2019ve had them in Afghanistan; we had them in Ukraine, and the people there were willing to lose their lives for these elections. You know, by the whacks across the head, I mean, everything that Bush said he\u2019s going to do he\u2019s done. He went into Afghanistan, rooted the Taliban and Al-Qaeda out. He got rid of Saddam Hussein. He cut taxes. He has put Iran and North Korea in the Axis of Evil. At some point they\u2019ve got to look at history and realize what\u2019s happening, and not from their standpoint. They are looking at history and asking, “Why can\u2019t we win?” but I think this piece in the New York Times — and I only say this because so much of the rest of liberalism takes its lead from the New York Times. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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