Sarah Palin, "Addicted To OPM"

No, I'm not about to suggest Sarah Palin is addicted to opium or to OPM (other people's money), but I am questioning a metaphor she made today in her conversation with Sean Hannity. Sarah said that the present regime seems "addicted to OPM." I am hoping that she read my paper "Obama: Addicted to Force" and was extrapolating from that. I mailed it to her. I am developing the thesis that politicians who use laws to force to people to do things they wouldn't voluntarily do are getting a rush of euphoria. I posses, somewhere, a note about a politician or bureaucrat remarking about the euphoria the group who devised Nixon's price controls got from their use of force on American consumers. Certainly, if politicians and bureaucrats get a rush of euphoria from enacting one law, you would expect them to repeat the process - passing laws - to get another rush of euphoria. Soon the process becomes an addiction to euphoria with the devil's work being the enactment of laws. Since it becomes an addiction to euphoria, and this addiction requires over time more and more euphoria to give you the same bang because people build up a tolerance, politicians and bureaucrates are forced to fashion and pass progressively more draconian laws to feel the same rush of elation. Thus, these Statists get addicted to forcing other people to do things as a secondary addiction with the primary addiction being elation just like crack addicts get addicted to stealing in order to buy cocaine that gives them a feeling to die for. And many do. Obama, unlike Clinton, will not swerve to the right in the next 60 days as Clinton did right before his mid-term elections, because Obama is more addicted to the euphoria he gets from forcing people around through laws. The Health Care Bill must have been a particulalry satisfying rush because Obama knew that he would be forcing 60 percent of the voters to accept it. The polls showed a 60 percent oppostion to Obamacare, and the public outcry was deafening. The Tea Party began its ascendancy during this frustrationg period. Clinton was nowhere near the rigid Marxist ideologue that Obama is so Clinton never had the strong addiction to force that Obama has. In addition, Clinton had another very distressing habit that could elate him - chasing, gropping, and raping women. Obama may now be going on so many vacations, playing so much golf and attending so many parties because he is seeking the euphoria he has lost from not passing more and more onerous, destructive laws. He can't get the laws passed because Harry and Nancy have told him he's in danger of being the only Democrat left in office after the mid-term elections! peternickerson12@yahoo.com