Earlier this summer, David Brooks, (fairly) conservative columnist for the New York Times, claimed that the Democrats are feeling the hangover from their Faustian bargain.
Dr. Faustus (the Democrat) asked Mephistopheles (his provost) for the following things:
1) an economic collapse that would discredit capitalism;
2) the smartest politician in the world to be the Democratic president;
3) the political will to create an $800 billion stimulus package;
4) the ability to pass universal health care;
5) a major environmental disaster caused by a multinational oil company to promote environmental law.
Mephistopheles gave Dr. Faustus all of this, but it has backfired .... Now Faust has fallen "back into despair. His soul will spend all eternity trapped in Glenn Beck’s microphone."
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I was browsing some YouTube videos the other day and came across this broadcast, which I think fits well with provision number four of this article. Robert Reich On Obama's "Hush Money"
ReplyDeleteI think the Faustian bargain is reversed. After all, one of the key reasons as to why nothing is getting done is because Obama is trying to hard to appease the radical conservatives. THAT is the Faustian bargain: Obama selling his soul to the ultra-conservatives so that they will accept his existance (and not hire Kenneth Starr to dig dirt up about him like they did with Clinton.)
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