"It was like the Chilean miners, but he, being the man he is, rolled up his sleeves and said 'I am going to get us out of this hole,'" Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said in Las Vegas on Sunday. (if you cannot see video below, Click Here)
If Reid really wanted to compare the President to the Chilean Miners, a more accurate analogy would have been the entire Democratic Party leadership including Obama and Reid are like the Chilean Miners because they ignore the American People as if they have no communication with the outside world, kind of like they have been stuck underground since January 2009.
Another way Reid's Analogy just doesn't work was described by Daniel Henninger in the Opinion Journal.
"Well at the risk of being too confrontational for people, I would be willing to call this an enormous victory for free-market capitalism. From the drill bit and fiber-optic cables which were made in Pennsylvania and Japan, respectively, to projectors used on Samsung cell phones from Korea...It all came together out there in that desert to bring these men up from half mile down.The panel then goes on to compare the Chilean response to the Democrats reaction to the recent BP oil spill.
Its interesting that the Chilean Government faced a crisis and relied on the free market to successfully solve the problem. The United States, which is supposed to be the home of free-market capitalism relied on the Government for the inept BP oil spill cleanup.
That's the part that Harry Reid and his Progressive Democratic partners don't understand. Their solution to the economic downturn was to expand government. If instead Reid insisted on a solution that encouraged free-market growth, Nevada would not be suffering with 14% unemployment. Besides the extraordinary chuzpah of exploiting the Chilean miners for rank political gain, Reid managed to botch the analogy. It would be much more accurate to say that it's the Tea Partiers have been drilling down to save the nation before we run out of liberty.
4 comments:
He's lied to his wife about his mistresses?
It's obvious. Obama is the hole.
The analogy is fundamentally flawed and illogical.
The entire Obama Administration can't even recognize the First Rule of Holes:
- When you're in one, STOP DIGGING.
BZ
I couldn't believe this hasn't gotten more attention. It's as daft as Pelosi saying they had to pass the bill so we could find out what's in it.
Other than the fact that the Chilean miners didn't dig the hole they were caught in and the fact that they didn't dig themselves out, the analogy is perfect.
Actually, I think the American people are the ones trapped by a financial cave in, and he's only heaped on more dirt for us to dig ourselves out of. He's not even communicating with us.
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