Bruni NYT Op-Ed Sees No Evil
Liz | 07/28 at 09:37 AM
A quote from an op-ed in today’s NY Times caught my attention. Frank Bruni, in an homage to President Obama, says “They (Republicans) don’t trust you. No matter how reasonable a face you show them, they’re convinced that a raging liberal lies beneath, biding his time.”
Reasonable face? Raging liberal lies beneath? I would argue the raging liberal is clear and present, and actively at work ramping up the greatest anti-business regulatory bulwarks ever seen. Has Mr. Bruni been following the new White House diktats on CAFÉ standards? The new EPA ozone rules? The not-yet released regulations that could swamp medical device manufacturers - one of our most innovative and competitive industries? The new labor rules that change traditional ways that unions may organize?
Mr. Obama may from time to time sound as though he is open and sympathetic to the concerns of our industries – but it is his administration that is causing America’s producers to suffer acute heartburn. Does he think that the push-back from every business organization in the country is simply rote? That the collapse in business sentiment is some far-right conspiracy?
These are not inconsequential matters. The country needs to grow and to produce jobs. The consumer is over-stretched and rightly hastening to pay down debt. The government is out of fiscal gas, to put it mildly. The only source of new investment is the business sector, which is hoarding cash while it waits to see which industry the Obama administration targets next. They have already gone after insurance, banks, mining companies, oil producers, medical device manufacturers, credit card companies, hospitals, autos, pharmaceuticals and banks. That’s a whopping share of the country’s enterprise. Is it any wonder that our growth has stalled?
BTW, am I the only person in the country that knows that “none” is singular? Mr. Bruni, and seemingly every other writer at the NYT (and elsewhere), uses “none” as a plural noun, as in (describing the GOP presidential candidates) “None have your personal narrative, your symbolic power.” As to the substance of this remark: he is right. Unlike Mr. Obama, most GOP contenders actually have a track record of accomplishment. Mr. Romney, for instance, was a successful governor, and extremely capable business man. How we could have elected someone with such a thin dossier continues to amaze me. Let us pray we don’t make the same mistake again.
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