David Obey's Misplaced Priorities

It requires a special sort of arrogance to treat a shooting war as an inconvenient distraction from converting America into a totally socialist society.

That's the sort of arrogance displayed by Wisconsin Democrat and House member David Obey.

While griping about the cost of US military operations in Afghanistan, he proposed a "war surtax," but only on "the rich."

In an interview on ABC, Obey complained that Truman's Square Deal was ruined by the Korean War, Johnson's Great Society by that little distraction in Vietnam, and, now, on the brink of passing an unaffordable health care system redesign, fighting the War on Terror is proving, well, untimely.

So, despite having thrown fiscal caution to the wind with last year's TARP, this year's stimulus bill, cash for clunkers, several jobless benefits extensions, cap and trade legislation, and the incredibly expensive and unaffordable House health care bill, Obey chose an actually Constitutional governmental activity, providing for the common defense, to find fiscal probity.

Never mind borrowing for all those other socialistic programs which aren't Constitutionally sanctioned.

We only need to make people feel pain for actually defending the country from Muslim terrorists who are actively trying to kill Americans.

This guy is some piece of work. With Representatives like him, no wonder Congress is held in such low esteem nationwide.