The Economic Nationalist

Strapped in, Barack Obama at the wheel, you and I are in for a wild ride, aren’t we? This ride is going to knock us about a bit but, in the end, we will come out all right.

The mistake Mr. Obama and his allies have made was in failing to let John McCain, like Herbert Hoover, idle the car of state four more years at the filling station. Only four more years: then they just might have had enough political fuel to drive us all full speed together up the mountain and over the cliff. As it is, they could not wait, and Mr. Obama has taken the wheel and pulled too soon out of the station. This car’s half-filled tank is consequently destined to run dry, leaving Mr. Obama to walk the last mile to the cliff alone in his own shoes.

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If one enjoys writing as I do, then part of the fun in blogging lies in building up a regular readership. According to the Web server’s logs the Economic Nationalist now enjoys a readership of a thousand distinct readers a month. Not bad, as such things go, I think. Naturally I appreciate your reading, and believe and hope that you will have found the reading edifying.

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This is worth watching:

[I]t’s been announced that the White House will oversee the Census.

If true, this is an odd announcement, is it not? The White House after all oversees everything in the executive branch. That’s what a White House normally does. So, why announce explicitly that the White House will oversee the census, unless because the White House especially means in this instance to circumvent normal channels in oversight?

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