2009 is 1934 all over again…

Things that make you go “hmmmmmm…… haven’t we seen this show before?”

Bios of those pictured in the wagon.  From Left to right:

• Rexford Tugwell
• Harold Ickes (he is also the father of Bill Clinton’s former Deputy Chief of Staff)
• Henry Wallace
• Donald Richberg

Richberg, who was the second head of the NRA famously said “A nationally planned economy is the only salvation of our present situation and the only hope for the future”.

Richberg also said…

There is no choice presented to American business between intelligently planned and uncontrolled industrial operations and a return to the gold-plated anarchy that masqueraded as “rugged individualism.”…Unless industry is sufficiently socialized by its private owners and managers so that great essential industries are operated under public obligation appropriate to the public interest in them, the advance of political control over private industry is inevitable”

That sure sounds like what Obama and Geithner are doing today.  One very ironic thing about the Supreme Court striking down the NRA as unconstitutional was a quote from Huey Long (whom, like Obama has been compared reffered to as a populist.)

“I raise my hand in reverence to the Supreme Court that saved this nation from fascism”

As Jonah Goldberg in his book “Liberal Fascism” pointed out.  Fascism is a Liberal state of being – not Conservative. 

The “Brain Trust” referred to on the sign on Tugwell’s back

Of course the really unfunny item is that the sign says they are grads from Columbia and Harvard.  Hmmm… Where did Obama go to school?