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Gene Lalor | January 30, 2011
Keeping up with leftist hypocrisy and machinations is a challenge. It’s also challenging to sanity. As with the little engine that could, I think I can keep up with the former but the latter becomes more difficult by the day.
The latest in a long list of hypocrisies involves Cass R. Sunstein, a “legal scholar” on the short list for next next Obama nominee for the Supreme Court, is one of the multitude of Obama czars. Now ensconced as grand poobah in charge of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, by virtue of the powers vested in that office and his core values as a human being, Sunstein is poised to wreak more damage to the nation’s values than almost any other Obamaczar.
Sunstein’s OIRA, a division of the OMB, “carries out several important functions, including reviewing Federal regulations, reducing paperwork burdens, and overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs,” according to its website.
Salon.com published an article, “Nudge on Trial,” bemoaning the “inquisition” of the “iconoclast,” Sunstein. Last I heard, “iconoclast” describes a person who attacks cherished but erroneous beliefs. Sunstein is indeed an attacker but the subjects of his attacks are anything but erroneous, that is, unless one believes the right to privacy is readily violable by government or that government is entitled to subvert dissension by infiltrating and destroying dissenters.
Salon depicts Sunstein as something of a martyr forced to submit to overbearing Republicans by making his “umpteenth appearance before a congressional committee.” I’m not quite sure how many “umpteenth” amounts to but the article amounted to a hatchet job on Republicans whose new House majority wants to rid the nation of the administration’s job-crippling industry regulations.
Sunstein made that umpteenth appearance before the House Energy and Commerce Committee and proceeded to engage in evasions and semantical word games rather than attempting to clarify the administration’s efforts to create jobs by eliminating regulatory roadblocks.
In a bow to House Republican majority, at the same time a masterful stroke in the fine art of deceit, Obama pledged to explore ways to limit government regulations on business, a group as foreign to the community organizer as the concept of a real job. At the same time he said that new regulations will be necessary in order to eliminate old regulations since we all know the best route to deregulation is more regulation, right?
And, who will be in charge of all that regulatory re-shuffling? None other than the man for whom the job of chief government regulator is a virtual Nirvana, Cass Sunstein.
With his ethically-suspect background, it’s no wonder the Republicans don’t trust him.
Sunstein is the same guy who put to shame those Aussie medical students who recently performed anal, genital, and breast exams on unconscious patients without their consent. No consent? No problem.
In Sunstein’s 2008 book, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, he “advocated a policy under which the government would ‘presume’ someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken.” Since dead people aren’t very equipped to give consent to being farmed for parts or to object, Sunstein/Mengele calls it “presumed intent.”
Salon alluded to that controversy but deftly avoided explication of Sunstein’s proposal and instead sidetracked into a non-sequitur ridiculing Glenn Beck. When liberals’ backs are to the wall in indefensible positions, they love to lash out at the opposition.
Sunstein is also the same guy who co-authored an abstract for a treatise, “Conspiracy Theories,” in which he suggested tactics that would be the envy of Orwell’s Big Brother. His plan was to crush peaceful dissent by conservatives with “a distinctive tactic” for “breaking up the hard core of extremists who supply conspiracy theories.” His paranoid scheme incorporated “cognitive infiltration of extremist groups, whereby government agents or their allies . . . will undermine the crippled epistemology of those who subscribe to such theories.”
That undermining would be accomplished by government agents “planting doubts about the theories and stylized facts that circulate within such groups, thereby introducing beneficial cognitive diversity.” For the slow kids out there, the government would determine who qualified as crippled extremists and would be authorized to infiltrate their movements and plant discrediting lies to rectify their disturbed thinking and lead those dumbarses to the light: http://bit.ly/7h4LYD
Anyone care to wager that dastardly conservatives, certainly not the New Black Panther Party, would top that list?
Wisely if guilefully, Salon made no reference to that Sunstein endorsement of breaching the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. Like the right to privacy which liberals support when it comes to women seeking abortions but abhor when it comes to conservative “extremists,” they likewise are enthused over filching body parts from dead people but flinch at the thought of allowing living, pre-born babies the right to life.
It must be hellish to subsist as a liberal pretending to be an American with principles. I’d prefer insanity.
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