As our economy stands on the brink, with the national debt crisis raising the possibility that our grandchildren will inherit a bankrupt country that looks more like Greece than America, you have to wonder. What is Barack Obama thinking? 

How can the President have let things come to this pass? Did he know that the trillions spent on a national health care disaster and a government takeover of key industries would make things so much worse? Why, in the face of disastrous unemployment, inflation and the prospect of default, does he stick to the same old leftwing playbook of higher taxes and class warfare? Is the President trying to strain the American economy to the breaking point?

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If you charge up your credit cards, you can keep the party going as long as you have enough cash to make the minimum monthly payments.

But start to miss those and the banks will slash your credit, bombard you with phone calls, and turn the collection agencies loose on you

Like Mark Steyn says: Since when are debt limits negotiated between debtors? My wife and I are approaching our debt limit, so we agreed to raise our debt limit...guess what happened when we went to the bank and told them that.

Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds.

At the same time, government-provided benefits -- from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs -- rose to a record high during the first three months of 2011

The idea of the redistribution of wealth is an appealing one, especially for people who don’t consider themselves wealthy. Many people believe that economic equality is the only way to truly make people equal. After all, one of history’s most famous urban legends - Robin Hood - took from the rich and gave to the poor.

President Obama is on the verge of a crackup. The debt-limit talks are beginning to take their toll. On Wednesday, the president stormed out of a meeting with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Like a petulant adolescent, Mr. Obama blamed the Virginia Republican for opposing a “grand bargain.”

Mitch McConnell's proposal to essentially grant Obama dictatorial powers to raise the debt ceiling unilaterally has raised howls of outrage and cries of treason in Republican ranks. One Red State blogger has suggested McConnell be burned in effigy. The proposal would, in effect, give Obama the power to raise the debt ceiling without having to make any cuts in spending.

It has taken two and a half years, but Barack "no drama" Obama has finally lost his cool.

He walked out of a meeting with Republican congressional leaders on deficit reduction, telling them "enough was enough".

President Obama's press conference yesterday-in which he only took questions from left-leaning reporters apparently-contained an amazing statement. It should be noted the first two instances of the first person singular pronoun in the sentence refer to Barack Obama, President of the United States. The second two refer to Barack Obama, taxpaying citizen:

It appears that the left is washing its hands of Obama. In recent days we've seen a number of left-wing spokesmen ranging from Bill Maher to Frank Rich dismissing Obama as a disappointment -- too centrist, too moderate, not at all the American Lenin they'd ordered. Even Mark Halperin, who would fracture his nose if any Democratic politician ever stopped short, dismissed the messiah as a "dick" on MSNBC.

Rand of course is a champion of individual rights, including property rights, and an advocate of laissez-faire capitalism. Walk through any Tea Party gathering and you’ll see signs such as “Who is John Galt?,” “Rand was right” and “Read Atlas Shrugged.” Paul Ryan says of her, accurately in my view, that “Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.”