That is an Edmund Burke quote used by Caroline Lewis to say this about Obama's tactics:
Now, with the threat of this terrible bill looming in our presence, what do we make of it? Why would anyone in their right mind continue to spend, spend, spend, when we obviously need to stop, stop, stop? The only answer lies in the chaos tactic. President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Harry Reid obviously know the chaotic implications of this bill. If we continue to spend, at some point our lenders (China and others) will refuse to finance our debts for us. At that point, we will see the same kind of hyper-hyper-inflation that plagued the Weimar Republic following World War I. You must remember the pictures from your history books of German children who tied bundles of marks together to burn for fuel. The value of the mark had dropped so dramatically that it was cheaper to burn stacks of marks than it was to buy coal or wood.
Yet, what happened after the fall of the Weimar Republic? Who saved Germany from despair? Whose great speeches and strategic organization pulled Germany from the ashes? Adolf Hitler.
Hitler, like many despotic leaders, saw opportunity in the chaos. The chaos of post-World War I Germany naturally craved a leader, and Hitler filled the void.
Yet Hitler was not the only leader who capitalized upon chaos. In the late 18th century, France had been torn by the French Revolution of 1789 and the subsequent Reign of Terror (1793-1794). Within a decade, the country had seen rapid leadership changes from a ruling monarchy to a dictatorship by political radicals. The void left by the chaos craved a leader who could save the country. Enter Napoleon. By 1799, Napoleon had overthrown the ruling body, the Directory, through a coup d'état, and became the de facto military leader of France. By 1804, he had crowned himself emperor.
Lenin's rise to power also capitalized upon chaos. In February of 1917, a group of anti-monarchists overthrew the czarist government. This left the country with a disorganized ruling body called the Provisional Government. Lenin and his small group of followers, the Bolsheviks, used this chaotic situation to their advantage and overthrew the Provisional Government in November of 1917.
Obama, Pelosi, and Reid can see opportunity in chaos, just like Hitler, Napoleon and Lenin did. Yet our chaos has not become chaotic enough for the people to bend their wills to this leader. So chaos must be produced by their overspending. This administration will spend until the financial status becomes so chaotic that the people raise their hands and cry, "Do what you will! Save us, Messiah!"
Sun-Tzu's tactic of chaos still speaks from his grave. If you can put a people into enough panic and enough frenzy, they will give you the reins. This is what our leadership is banking on right now. Yet, we must remember that they are counting on us to cave, to retreat, and not to call upon Congress to oppose this bill.
However, striking with chaos doesn't work if the people refuse to become afraid. This is echoed in the words of Edmund Burke, who stated, "Evil is powerless, if the good are unafraid."
May we be unafraid as we oppose the health-care bill and stand against the chaos tactic of the governmental elites.