College Faculty Members......You're Next!

Several years ago I vowed to stop discussing public policy with partisan Democrats altogether. The reasons for ending all dialogues were numerous. However, the primary reason was there is no intellectual honesty associated with any of their assertions. Every principle cited as the reason why George W. Bush was awful somehow did not apply to Barack Obama once he was inaugurated. There are dozens of examples.

Take the Bush incursion into Iraq and his troop surges. Military interference in Libya would surely have been bad under Bush. But it was perfectly acceptable under Obama.

How about the immorality of budget deficits? Billions in government borrowing were unconscionable under Bush but trillions in borrowing under Obama is fine.

Let’s consider the Democrats formerly sacred privacy issues. Surveillance of international phone calls under Bush was a despicable violation of the U.S. Constitution. Under Obama the expanded role of the NSA and IRS in snooping on Internet searches, Facebook, cell phone records, emails, is just fine. Even snooping on journalists is being tolerated in the name of national security. The government needs private information. Apparently big government needs more than all it had on the Boston Marathon bombers. Or do these bureaucrats have other ideas?

Illegal immigration enforcement was lax under Bush. It created a flood of cheap labor. Labor unions were furious. Lack of illegal immigration enforcement under Obama is considered “compassionate.”

The move by Congressional Democrats last month to secure exemptions from Obamacare for themselves and their staffs was astoundingly absurd. Nancy Pelosi actually complained in front of news cameras that it would be harder to keep good people if the Obamacare rules that apply to all of the rest of us, also applied to “her people.” Only an unrepentant self-delusional hypocrite could look into the eyes of a camera and say those things after being seen cheering as Obama signed Obamacare into law. Apparently it was exactly what all the unimportant people needed.

I did have an interesting conversation with a progressive Democrat about public education late last year.  He allowed as how any shortcomings in the performance of public schools could be traced towards the court system and the onerous burdens created by the federal government with George Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act. Imagine that! A federal law pushed by Ted Kennedy and signed by George W. Bush has now screwed up public education. I wondered aloud if there might be a few other professional endeavors the federal government was also ruining with its insatiable appetite for “rules.” He didn’t take the hint that federal rules were ruining everything including education.

Last week we started to capture a comprehensive understanding of just how far towards a Stalinist/Mao-like governing paradigm we will go in America. It seems, according to Obama, that the final stronghold of freedom in American education, our higher education institutions, needs more federal government supervision. And not surprisingly, President Obama has a “new” plan involving more rules, more regulations, and more paperwork mandates from Washington D.C. Of course he promises the government will make higher education more cost effective.

One question is still begging for an answer. Were the adoring members of the faculties at virtually every college campus in America hearing what Obama said? Now that his world view is about to apply to their little domain will they finally smell the roses understand the damage being done? Don’t bet your Pell grant money on it. These people are more brain dead than Nancy Pelosi.