Politics

David Harsanyi on Obama's Halftime Hypocrisy

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On Super Bowl Sunday, America was treated to the most expensive political commercial in history. In a series of vapid non sequiturs, Clint Eastwood's gravelly voice pinned the promise of a city to government dependency, claiming that "the people of Detroit" lost almost everything but because "we" pulled together and the "Motor City is fighting again," we survived. Or, as David Harsanyi argues, after screwing stakeholders, rewarding failed business models, and sticking taxpayers with the unions' fat pension tab, America got a heaping spoonful of the Obama administration's economic policy.