People’ sent little HMO enablers all over the country, and built the

nations new biggest industry ‘Health Care’ by 1977. Nixon’s Wage & Price

controls in ‘72 I thought were pretty facist, had to keep that Line Backer

bombing machine going over Hanoi!

Pantload? Check.

We are in serious trouble here. I have traveled throughout the former Soviet bloc countries and western Europe. The people in those countries, especially the young university students are well versed in their own histories and in world history. From what I know about people I talk to here, from people in their 50s to those in their 20s, history isn’t a strong point, nor is geography. A rambling answer like Goldberg’s will play very well with these people.

Now, we’ve got Barack Obama saying that GM is going to make these affordable fuel-efficient cars — i.e., cars that Washington and the political planners in Washington want made rather than the cars that the market and the consumer are demanding.

So this Jonah Goldberg fellow can actually read consumers minds? and project the market? He’s reading the minds of the slow-to-change petro industry.

What scares the Becks and the Goldbergs et al is that a president with credibility can use the bully pulpit gently to change some minds about the desirability of driving fuel efficient, American made vehicles, and they are fearful of that. They are even afraid of presidential persuasion that urges us to put aside our differences whenever possible and seek commion ground. You see, if that happens, fear does not sell any longer.

The kind of presidential persuasion that appeals to most Republicans is to be afraid and thus easy to manipulate. After all, the current Republican base is mostly comprised of those who believe lies.