"Here we go again. Rush Limbaugh is public enemy No. 1. Liberal bloggers and media chin-strokers are aghast at Limbaugh's statement that he hopes Barack Obama fails. Well, given what Obama wants to do, I hope he fails too. Of course I want the financial crisis to end -- who doesn't? But Obama's agenda is much more audacious. Pretty much every major news outlet in the country has said as a matter of objective analysis that Obama wants to repeal the legacy of Ronald Reagan and remake the country as a European welfare state. And yet people are shocked that conservatives, Limbaugh included, want Obama to fail in this effort? What movie have they been watching? Because I could swear that conservatives opposing the expansion of big government is what conservatives do"

-- Los Angeles Times columnist Jonah Goldberg.

Amen, brother.

I shake my head every time I hear a Republican politician or commentator, out of misplaced sense of politesse, avers they "want the President to succeed."

I want Obama to fail, and the fail spectacularly, for the reasons Goldberg puts forth. I want the economy to recover and grow, I want America to succeed, and I want liberty to succeed -- and therefore I want Obama's new New Deal to be an utter and obvious failure, sooner rather than later.