A friend of mine wrote posted this earlier on another board, I'm just going to re post it here.
The media has been hyping all of the so called "moderate" picks in Obama's administration.
Don't be fooled. I repeat, do not be fooled!
We already know about his socialist, global government pick for climate Czar... well, now we have this Cass Sunstein who will be heading up the White House office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Cass...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein
Obama is filling the White House with left wing loons like this clown who also happens to be from Chicago. These are not high visibility posts, but they all carry great responsibility and wield power in the government and the country. They also all influence policy and the President.
The White House office of Information and Regulatory Affairs which "carries out the same kinds of economic analysis and related analyses for the past 20 years. In addition to reviewing draft regulations under Executive Order 12866, OIRA reviews collections of information under the Paperwork Reduction Act, and also develops and oversees the implementation of government-wide policies in the areas of information technology, information policy, privacy, and statistical policy."
Cass Sunstein has written books who's entire premise is to push left wing, socialist ideals. Get a load of this:
Sunstein's 2004 book, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever, advocates the Second Bill of Rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Among these rights are a right to an education, a right to a home, a right to health care, and a right to protection against monopolies
He is a rabid supporter of PETA and thinks animals should be able to sue humans.
This also sounds ominous... you aren't smart enough to make your own decisions, you need "public and private organizations" to guide you. I am not kidding:
Sunstein's most recent book is Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Yale University Press, 2008), which he co-authored with economist Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago. Nudge discusses how public and private organizations can help people make better choices in their daily lives. Thaler and Sunstein argue that
People often make poor choices - and look back at them with bafflement! We do this because as human beings, we all are susceptible to a wide array of routine biases that can lead to an equally wide array of embarrassing blunders in education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, happiness, and even the planet itself.
Group think at its worst.
Another list of his books:
"After the Rights Revolution (1990), The Partial Constitution (1993), Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech (1995), Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict (1996), Free Markets and Social Justice (1997), One Case at a Time (1999), Risk and Reason (2002), Why Societies Need Dissent (2003), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005), Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America (2005), Are Judges Political? An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Judiciary (2005), Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge (2006), and, co-authored with Richard Thaler, Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2008)."
He also doesn't like the first ammendment, he wants political speech to be treated differently from all other speech. The scary part is who exactly decides what is hate speech, etc. From Amazon, this is about his book 'Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech':
Calling for a "large-scale reassessment of the appropriate role of the First Amendment," University of Chicago law professor Sunstein here offers nuanced and provocative proposals for reform. After providing a primer on the contrasting developments in First Amendment law, he argues that the notion of free expression should be connected to the goal of creating a Madisonian "deliberative democracy." Thus, he criticizes "market theology" and calls for free media time for political candidates, and for federal guidelines--but not mandates--for coverage of public issues. Drawing on precedents regarding commercial speech, Sunstein proposes a lesser degree of protection for nonpolitical speech like advertising. He suggests allowing "deliberative" racist or sexist political speech, but not hateful epithets, which he compares to obscene phone calls. Convinced that there is a causal connection between pornography and violence against women, he endorses the proposal, advanced by legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon and feminist author Andrea Dworkin, for civil action against violent pornography. Sunstein is fuzzy on finding principles to govern taxpayer support for the arts. Still, his worthy book should stimulate valuable argument.
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Problem ... 0028740009
The media has been hyping all of the so called "moderate" picks in Obama's administration.
Don't be fooled. I repeat, do not be fooled!
We already know about his socialist, global government pick for climate Czar... well, now we have this Cass Sunstein who will be heading up the White House office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Cass...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein
Obama is filling the White House with left wing loons like this clown who also happens to be from Chicago. These are not high visibility posts, but they all carry great responsibility and wield power in the government and the country. They also all influence policy and the President.
The White House office of Information and Regulatory Affairs which "carries out the same kinds of economic analysis and related analyses for the past 20 years. In addition to reviewing draft regulations under Executive Order 12866, OIRA reviews collections of information under the Paperwork Reduction Act, and also develops and oversees the implementation of government-wide policies in the areas of information technology, information policy, privacy, and statistical policy."
Cass Sunstein has written books who's entire premise is to push left wing, socialist ideals. Get a load of this:
Sunstein's 2004 book, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever, advocates the Second Bill of Rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Among these rights are a right to an education, a right to a home, a right to health care, and a right to protection against monopolies
He is a rabid supporter of PETA and thinks animals should be able to sue humans.
This also sounds ominous... you aren't smart enough to make your own decisions, you need "public and private organizations" to guide you. I am not kidding:
Sunstein's most recent book is Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Yale University Press, 2008), which he co-authored with economist Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago. Nudge discusses how public and private organizations can help people make better choices in their daily lives. Thaler and Sunstein argue that
People often make poor choices - and look back at them with bafflement! We do this because as human beings, we all are susceptible to a wide array of routine biases that can lead to an equally wide array of embarrassing blunders in education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, happiness, and even the planet itself.
Group think at its worst.
Another list of his books:
"After the Rights Revolution (1990), The Partial Constitution (1993), Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech (1995), Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict (1996), Free Markets and Social Justice (1997), One Case at a Time (1999), Risk and Reason (2002), Why Societies Need Dissent (2003), Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005), Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America (2005), Are Judges Political? An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Judiciary (2005), Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge (2006), and, co-authored with Richard Thaler, Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2008)."
He also doesn't like the first ammendment, he wants political speech to be treated differently from all other speech. The scary part is who exactly decides what is hate speech, etc. From Amazon, this is about his book 'Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech':
Calling for a "large-scale reassessment of the appropriate role of the First Amendment," University of Chicago law professor Sunstein here offers nuanced and provocative proposals for reform. After providing a primer on the contrasting developments in First Amendment law, he argues that the notion of free expression should be connected to the goal of creating a Madisonian "deliberative democracy." Thus, he criticizes "market theology" and calls for free media time for political candidates, and for federal guidelines--but not mandates--for coverage of public issues. Drawing on precedents regarding commercial speech, Sunstein proposes a lesser degree of protection for nonpolitical speech like advertising. He suggests allowing "deliberative" racist or sexist political speech, but not hateful epithets, which he compares to obscene phone calls. Convinced that there is a causal connection between pornography and violence against women, he endorses the proposal, advanced by legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon and feminist author Andrea Dworkin, for civil action against violent pornography. Sunstein is fuzzy on finding principles to govern taxpayer support for the arts. Still, his worthy book should stimulate valuable argument.
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Problem ... 0028740009