Writing here about a heretical concept and human nature in The President, Shock and Awe and Tertullian” Roger Kimball states:
“Many people, I believe, have been stunned by the President’s behavior in his first weeks in office. It’s been a shock and awe performance. Historians of this period will look back in wonder: how ever did a new President waltz into office and, before he had even finished unpacking, extract $800,000,000,000 from taxpayers for partisan spending programs? …. But those historians will note with interest how, even at the beginning of March, some reputable commentators still referred to the President’s poverty program as ‘stimulus package’.”
Tertullian said, that the blessed in heaven would derive pleasure from witnessing the torments of the damned. While heretical, Old Tertullian does have a grasp of human nature, so too, does Obama, who is making hay while the Swells sweat and the Have-nots hoot. “…it will cause pain among the affluent. It will also cause delight among the more than 43 percent of tax filers who pay no income tax.”
Unfortunately, we’ll all get a glimpse of Hell as this “stimulus package” unfolds. When it’s actually read , we may find we’re funding Hamas and the Taliban.