Detroit Free Press: The federal government is mother, the federal government is father

In one of my all-time favorite sci-fi series Babylon 5, telepaths were automatically drafted into the psi-corps for a lifetime of indentured servitude under penalty of a lifetime on drugs to suppress your ability or death. Once you're in, you never, ever get out. As their saying went, "the corps is mother, the corps is father." Turns out, the Detroit Free Press believes this of all of us. As per the liberal ideology, the government is the benevolent god that provides for us all. Check out this column by freep editor Brian Dickerson: Would you leave your kids with Sen. McConnell?

...today, as I survey the Republican congressional leaders who have been threatening to reduce the mightiest nation on Earth to a sort of sovereign deadbeat dad, I wonder if any sane parent would be comfortable leaving a child in their care.

...Who wants their children hanging around with adults who openly espouse such a practice?

...Are you paying attention, children?

...Those are the sort of tactics that disqualify those who resort to them from the serious business of governing.

And it doesn't make many parents want to leave them in charge of their kids, either.

The illustration is clear. The federal government is mother and father. We are the children to be taken care of by it. It's a perfect example of the nanny state mentality. And for those that actually produce in this country? You have been drafted into the corps. It's for life. You will be demonized by politicians and will fork up the lions share of the tax burden so that the feds can cut checks to those that refuse to produce, because they are the favored children of the federal nanny state since they keep the liberals in power via the quid pro quo of entitlements.

UPDATE: I should have commented on Dickerson's lessons of the GOP from his warped perspective:

Imagine the lessons an attentive child could absorb at the feet of the current Republican caucus:

• Promises are made to be broken.

Let me set aside the slew of Obama promises that he has broken in totality since getting elected (too easy). I don't remember ever receiving a piece of paper from Uncle Sam promising me social security and Medicare once I got up to age 65 if I agreed to pay into the system. They simply started to take my money once I started earning it. The promise is and has not been funded, and is so large that there isn't enough money in the world to pay for it. The bigger lesson here is you do not spend beyond your means.

• Compromise is for sissies.

Remember the compromise that the Democrats made with the GOP in passing healthcare reform? Yeah - me neither. Where was Dickerson in early 2010?

UPDATE #2: A few days before the above, this editorial: Don't believe debt ceiling myths; pain will be real

Of all the distortions being floated in relation to the nation's debt ceiling, none is more damaging than the idea that not raising it might actually be the best option -- or at least not pose any real danger.

Uh um: Flashback 2006: Every Single Democrat US Senator votes AGAINST raising debt ceiling. That included this guy: Flashback: Obama 2006: “America Has A Debt Problem And A Failure Of Leadership,” Voted AGAINST IT! And this one: Flashback: Harry Reid 2006 AGAINST RAISING DEBT CEILING: Public Debt 'The Greatest of the Dangers to be Feared'.

UPDATE #3: From Nolan Finley over at The Detroit News: No default, even without deal on raising debt limit

Rapture predictor Harold Camping and President Barack Obama have much in common: Both preach a date-certain apocalypse, panicking those foolish enough to believe them.

Camping, the Christian radio host, pinpointed the end of the world for last May 21. It didn't happen. Obama suggests a default of the federal government for Aug. 2, triggering a catastrophe that will collapse the financial markets, destroy individual wealth and leave seniors without their Social Security checks. That won't happen, either.

Read the whole thing.