(Democrat) Steve Wynn explains:

…this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business, and progress and job creation in my lifetime. And I can prove it and I could spend the next three hours giving you examples of all of us in this market place that are frightened to death about all the new regulations, our healthcare costs escalate, regulations coming from left and right. A President that seems, that keeps using that word redistribution. Well, my customers and the companies that provide the vitality for the hospitality and restaurant industry, in the United States of America, they are frightened of this administration. And it makes you slow down and not invest your money. Everybody complains about how much money is on the side in America.

You bet and until we change the tempo and the conversation from Washington, it’s not going to change. And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President. And a lot of people don’t want to say that. They’ll say, God, don’t be attacking Obama. Well, this is Obama’s deal and it’s Obama that’s responsible for this fear in America.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don’t invest, they’re holding too much money. We haven’t heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody’s afraid of the government and there’s no need soft peddling it, it’s the truth. It is the truth. And that’s true of Democratic businessman and Republican businessman, and I am a Democratic businessman and I support Harry Reid. I support Democrats and Republicans. And I’m telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he’s gone, everybody’s going to be sitting on their thumbs.

Anyone who ever imagined that Barack Obama was a “centrist” was using some pretty exotic drugs.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Why the Democrat Party is doomed:

Like it or not, Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev: a man forced to preside over the demise of a political system he desperately wants to save.

Democrat champions in the punditocracy confidently predict that the future of the world’s oldest political party is bright. But in fact, the coalition that is the modern Democratic Party is doomed. Every pillar upholding its heavy roof is crumbling.

If so, it’s not a decade too soon. I hope he’s right.

With tax cheat Tim Geithner.

If you are for individual liberty, and the American Dream it should be chilling. Shivers went up my spine. Geithner is a character straight out of central casting.

With regard to the debt ceiling, Geithner doesn’t offer up a compromise at all. It’s the administration’s way, or the highway. This means that there is only one way — vote out the Democrats by a significant margin in the House, Senate and get rid of Obama and his very left wing administration in 2012.

He also outright lies about what will get paid and what won’t.

Listen to his words on Dodd-Frank: “Don’t listen to the bankers because their interests aren’t aligned with the American people.” It could be a phrase right out of Atlas Shrugged.

Bankers need a healthy economy to make money. Geithner and Obama want a government directed economy where government de facto owns the banks.

Listen to him talk about the new activist “Consumer Financial Protection Agency” and avowed big government/public sector ownership advocate Elizabeth Warren. Geithner has no faith in the private sector, or the individual. He wants to trample individual rights.

Also, a bonus reference to advocates of limited government and liberty as “anarchists.”

[Update a few minutes later]

Federal expansion — the real issue in the debt-limit debate.