Of COURSE Obama has no interest in turning us into Europe/Greece. It's only bad luck and coincidence that every major effort he has pushed since election moves us in that direction.
I have never said Nancy Pelosi was the equivalent of Mao. What I have consistently said is that every policy promoted by the modern Democratic Party, and in some cases carried out, moves us one more notch in that direction. None of them have pulled us back. Again, think "vector."
Frum seems to have a fantasy that everyone is reasonable if you just get them sat down in front of a nice chai tea. My own theory is that he comes from a large group of people in Washington and elsewhere - heavily represented in politics - who are convinced that it is impossible for those who went to the "right" schools to really be on the opposite side of anything. It's almost British in a way.
You do get points for not only reading the links, but studying the sources.
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