Austan Goolsbee, of the Council of Economic Advisors, appeared Monday on The Colbert Report. Asked about critics like Rush Limbaugh who say they want Obama’s economic policies to fail, Goolsbee said:
Your house is on fire. Guy goes, “Ahhh! My child!” Guy runs in, takes your kid out, saves their life. Now is not the time to accuse them of kidnapping. This is the situation that we face.
The right-wingers have called Obama a Socialist, a Communist, a Fascist, a terrorist, and worse. I expect them to call him a kidnapper within 72 hours.
Spink Nogales | 16-Jun-09 at 8:41 pm | Permalink
The Dixie Chicks criticized Bush the Lessor in 2003, before it was popular. They risked much to shine a light on the questionable behavior of the administration.
Political dissent is not the problem. The problem is ‘excepting’ an administration from criticism based on popular opinion polls and our own political agenda.
Your house is on fire. Guy goes, “Ahhh! My Child!” Guy goes, “I didn’t start this fire.” Child perishes. Fire spreads to entire neighborhood. Government nationalizes the fire insurance industry.