W.R. Marshall -- Alan Greenspan, Just Another Liberal Tool

ALAN GREENSPAN, JUST ANOTHER LIBERAL TOOL

by Dr. W.R. Marshall, Ph.D
September 22, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

The liberal media is at it again. This time they�ve trotted out the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and self-proclaimed libertarian Republican (and John Kerry got the Silver Star, wink, wink), Alan Greenspan, to pile it on the Republicans, and bash George W. Bush, who, if they�d read their own papers, is pretty busy flying to Iraq and New Orleans and such.

In Greenspan�s new book, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, the old lefty supposedly tells it like it is, laying the blame for a faltering economy and a grim future at the feet of the Bush Administration and its failed policies. That�s like blaming James Buchanan for helping to bring about the Civil War. (Buchanan�considered the worst U.S. President, and a Democrat to no one�s surprise�died thinking history would treat him favorably. It would have if it wasn�t written by liberals. Keep in mind back then Democrats were like Republicans and Republicans were like Democrats, more of that �freethinking� double talk to confuse us. So take heart Dubya, the future will put you in your proper place.)

You could tell right off the lefty lovefest was in full swing when they plucked this quote from Alan �I love Trotsky� Greenspan�s book: "The Republicans in Congress lost their way. They swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose."

Ended up with neither? Well, Comrade Redspan, if the Elephant boys lost, how is it the President keeps getting all the money he wants for his war, has kept his tax cuts in place, and isn�t doing a damn thing about the deficit? If the Democrats were in power do you really think the country would be on this course? Where do you get your facts? You ought to read something other than the New York Times before you make outrageous statements like the Republicans don�t have principles or power�lost indeed.

And while we�re on outrageous statements, he actually wrote President Clinton �was an extraordinarily effective president." (Whenever Slick Willie�s name is mentioned in a positive light, you can bet some old peacenik publisher who�d rather save a tree than print the truth is behind it.) Clinton was �effective� if you think a $250 billion surplus and an eye on long-term growth is �effective� leadership. Some of us prefer to not worry about the long-term and take care of business today. Some of us think spending at least $250 billion in Iraq every year while cutting taxes at the same time is effective leadership. In fact, no leader in the history of the world has waged war and cut taxes at the same time�that�s how you put �effect� in effective.

But we don�t see or hear that. No, we get the news parsed out by a bunch of �Wood/Stein� wanna-bees who spread the fuzzy logic of some two-bit, octogenarian economist who probably went to school with Lenin (the one who wasn�t a Beatle) and who are perfectly willing, if not ecstatic, to print stuff like, "My biggest frustration remained the president's unwillingness to wield his veto against out-of-control spending."

My biggest frustration is that the former commune dwellers who didn�t believe in anything (including baths) and who now run publishing, don�t have the slightest idea what it takes to run the nation. Common sense and sound reasoning never appealed to their kind. Same goes for the old hippie who ran the Federal Reserve for almost twenty years; he just gets to spout his liberal propaganda and the liberal media gleefully publishes it; "`Deficits don't matter,' to my chagrin, became part of Republicans' rhetoric."

If deficits really mattered, does anyone think Ronald Regan would have ever been elected? So what if it was the Gipper himself that gave Greenspan the job as head of the Fed. He may have fooled us all�once�into thinking he was some kind of fiscal conservative, but it�s a good thing the Great Communicator isn�t here today to see Greenspan revert to his real self. I can see Ronnie now; wearing his cowboy plaid and big hat, sittin� tall in the saddle. I can see ol� double R shake his head in that old familiar way and say, �Greenie, there you go again.�

Greenspan admits to being a jazz musician at one point, his �pinko� slip was showing way back then. Given that dubious distinction as a player of improvisations, his service alongside both Cheney and Rumsfeld in the Ford Administration should have fooled no one, but it did�for a bit.

History can�t be duped; it�s unwilling to be deceived as easily those UC Berkeley journalism majors who dropped the pipe and picked up the pen. In the thirty years since Ford was president, we can take a long look at Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and the so-called libertarian Republican Alan Greenspan, and see who is credible and who isn�t.

So cover your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, throw in an old video tape of �the bear in woods� ad, sit tight and let Alan Greenspan spew his leftwing gobbledygook. Like all liberal nonsense, this too shall pass and we can all get back to business�whatever that business is...

W. R. Marshall is a syndicated columnist and novelist. His column, 'A Dull Ache'(tm) is read in over one hundred markets around the world. He also has a PhD, an M.F.A., and three singularly unimpressed children. His wife has been known to say, �Hey, Pynchon, do the dishes.�