Rolling Stone: Obama is the “Progressive Firewall”

posted at 11:12 pm on October 25, 2012 by Allahpundit

If you’re looking for Obama hagiography and a featurette on “A Day in the Life of Tom Hanks,” then the new issue is all you. Today’s epitaph for what Walter Russell Mead calls “the blue social model”:

Viewed through the lens of history, Obama represents a new type of 21st-century politician: the Progressive Firewall. Obama, simply put, is the curator-in-chief of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier and the Great Society. When he talks about continued subsidies for Big Bird or contraceptives for Sandra Fluke, he is the inheritor of the Progressive movement’s agenda, the last line of defense that prevents America’s hard-won social contract from being defunded into oblivion.

The end product of 80 years of progressivism is … Big Bird and Sandra Fluke? I’d dare Obama to run on that, but he already is.

Recently in the Green Room:

• “I don’t think you’d find…even a small number of Republicans voting for any kind of bill that has amnesty first and enforcement second”
• Photo of the day
• Programming note: Hosting the Hugh Hewitt Show this week
• It’s come to this: Democrats now complaining that … the Senate hasn’t passed a budget
• Video: The worst pageant answer ever?

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