The View from Left Field

Does anyone remember when George W. Bush was president how the left-wing media and the left-wing of the Democratic Party were all over him for carrying-on wars here, there, everywhere. Well here we are late in 2011 suffering through the misguided economic policies of an Obama administration, descending daily into greater debt as a nation, still engaged militarily in Iraq and Afghanistan while increasing our known military efforts in Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, perhaps Syria and Somalia and yet we do not hear a whisper from the Democratic left-wing, anti-war luminaries about this administration's policies. Hypocritical? Nah. Gitmo...bad under Bush, okay for Obama to use and continue? Anti-Terror policies...too aggressive under Bush; okay under Obama, Napolitano, Holder...just don't use the word "terror."

Economically, all we have is the Obama administration calling their profligate welfare spending an "investment." Who do they think they are fooling? Obama has never even, to our knowledge, run a lemonade stand as a kid much less the industries he wants to influence and regulate. Does the Obama administration have serious experience in anything other than community organizing and hubris?

How about some common sense? And soon?