Liberty Was Silent Last

John Hayward at Human Events responds to Christiane Amanpour's absurd description of Obama's SOTU speech last night:

Christiane Amanpour of ABC News declared President Obama’s State of the Union speech to be “very Reaganesque.”  Once again, Amanpour treats ABC viewers to the kind of insightful analysis they could expect from an extraterrestrial who landed on Earth yesterday.  Is it really so hard for ABC to find an anchor who knows the first thing about Ronald Reagan? 

Let me tell you something about Reagan, Ms. Amanpour: he was a great believer inliberty, and that was nowhere to be found in the halls of Congress last night.

One of Reagan’s most famous and witty lines was, “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it.  If it keeps moving, regulate it.  If it stops moving, subsidize it.”  Obama spoke expansively of doing all three in his State of the Union address.

The President who spoke last night has a rapturous faith in the power of Big Government programs, going as far comparing them to the engine in an overloaded airplane.  Reagan said that “concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”

Barack Obama is, without question, an advocate of concentrated power, and thus an enemy of liberty. ...

Indeed.