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April 03, 2009
Krauthammer: Obama's Ultimate Agenda
Good piece. Krauthammer is somewhat dismissive about the bank and auto bailouts -- he objects to them, but he knows that Obama ultimately doesn't want to be in the car or banking business.
These are circumstantial affairs. Obama's real agenda has little to do with them:
Bizarre and constitutionally suspect as these interventions may be, the transformation of the American system will come from elsewhere. The credit crisis will pass and the auto overcapacity will sort itself out one way or the other. The reordering of the American system will come not from these temporary interventions, into which Obama has reluctantly waded. It will come from Obama's real agenda: his holy trinity of health care, education and energy. Out of these will come a radical extension of the welfare state; social and economic leveling in the name of fairness; and a massive increase in the size, scope and reach of government.
If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.