The Patriot Post® · Obama's Not Radical — Until He Does Something

Democrats always downplay their policy proposals as merely “practical” until they’re enacted – then it’s the biggest deal since sliced bread. National Review’s Jonah Goldberg writes, “Here’s the problem. This is the way this president and his fans always sell his policies. They mock, ridicule, snark, smirk, wink, and guffaw at any notion he’s a radical or an ideologue when the action he wants to take is under debate. It’s just a modest this, a pragmatic that, an incremental the other thing. But once it’s a fait accompli, it’s a Big F'ing Deal – to borrow a phrase from the vice president. Right now, what Obama wants to do is par for the course for every president. Why, it would be weird if he didn’t give 5 million people amnesty. But I have no doubt that in the minutes, days, or, at the most, weeks to come I will be getting emails from the DNC telling me this a bold, historic, revolutionary piece of legislation executive action. And if not the DNC, then Salon & Co. will make that case for the DNC. … [E]veryone is an idiot for thinking Obama is doing anything radical right up to and until he does it. Then, suddenly, it’s ‘All Hail Obama for His Great Leap Forward!’” More…