When I was a kid, and older, wiser young man gave me the best advice for winning a street fight I ever heard. Hit hard, hit fast, and don’t let them get up. I saw it in action once, and it was impressive. The fight was over in less than 20 seconds.
It seems that the Obama Administration subscribes to the same philosophy of a street fight. Since taking office, through executive order, intimidation, budget legislation, economic emergency exploitation, threat of scrutiny, and 24/7 campaign-mode governance, the President has hit hard and fast.
There are so many hard-left changes flying out of Washington day after day, that it is almost impossible to keep up with them all. If you pick one or two to highlight and draw attention to, it only helps him slip two more past you where you aren’t looking. I wonder if it is even possible to educate yourself on ALL the kooky, progressive tripe that we are being subjected to at a record pace.
So I figured I would take a run at it. Here goes:
Guantanamo: In January, the President signed an executive order to close Gitmo in one year and suspend military tribunals. (just today they reinstated those, because they realized there was no other way to deal with enemy combatants) Since then, almost no other countries will take back their citizens who were caught fighting against us. So we are talking about putting them into the US prison system, or releasing them into the US population. Great…..
Overseas Abortion Funding: One of the first decisions Obama handed out by executive order was to allow funding for NGO’s that promote or perform abortions around the world. This policy was a reversal of Ronald Reagan’s Mexico City policy established in 1984 which prohibited US taxpayer funds from being used to promote or perform abortions in foreign countries.
Economic Stimulus Bill or, Porkulus: President Obama chose early on to double-down on the Bush TARP plan with his own ’stimulus’ bill. Throwing billions of dollars to special interest groups like ACORN along with offering funds to states who are struggling with their budgets was just the beginning. The strings attached to all this ‘government’ money are long and unbreakable. Estimates about the inability of the US government to repay even the interest on this spending continue to rise.
Auto Bailout: When the US automakers asked for government loans, they little understood the coffin they were building for themselves. Rather than letting the market correct their corporate mistakes by utilizing existing bankruptcy provisions, we had to give them billions. After the billions given to GM and Chrysler because we CAN”T let them fail, they are both preparing to go into bankruptcy. The major change, however, is the direct control the President of the United States has taken over these two hapless auto companies. Obama demanded the resignation of GM CEO Rick Wagoner, and appointed a ‘car czar’ that will choose the board members of these private corporations. He then strong-armed the debt-holders into forgiving debt and reducing their expected return on their investment, and gave 55% interest to the UAW for free. The American taxpayer got the shaft and the union got an auto company. Now, GM is in talks with the Canadians, Mexicans and Chinese about building their cars outside the US. Watch for the imports from Government Motors in the future.
Vilification of Capitalism: Along with all the increased government spending that a majority of the American people don’t want, comes the argument that capitalism has failed us, so the government had to step in and take over, just like the auto companies. The furor over the AIG bonuses further soured the mob on those greedy capitalist pigs on Wall Street, and gave cover for the SAME DAMN BONUSES at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. AIG execs worked for a year on a dollar salary because of the promise of the bonus to come. Come payday, the President and ‘Turbo-Tax’ Tim Geithner claim the bonuses were an outrage. NOT reported is the fact that the bonuses were disclosed a year prior and that the stimulus bill that NO ONE READ allowed them to be paid.
Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Reversing the stance of President Bush, Obama has signed an executive order allowing the use of embryonic stem cells for medical research. All promising research has come from ADULT stem cells, not from embryonic stem cells but that is ignored in all the hype about Michael J Fox being cured if it wasn’t for Bush, and Christopher Reeves would still be alive if not for Bush. What everyone ignores is that private research can and has always been legal and possible, Bush just held back federal funds. And rightly so.
World Apology Tour: Our fearless leader managed to traipse over to Europe and trash the reputation of not only capitalism but of Americans in general. While there at the G20 summit, he bowed low to the Saudi King, and then lied about it. It was almost reflexive, unthinking. His reaction upon seeing a robed King was to bow at the waist, left hand firmly held against his side while he reached for the king’s hand with his right. He then managed to sit through an hour of Daniel Ortega trashing us in South America and said nothing to correct the record when he got up. He might have been having flashbacks to one of Rev. Wright’s sermons, but the point is, he didn’t stand up for us. He then glad-handed and mugged for the camera with Hugo Chavez, making him a best-selling author overnight, and legitimizing his tin-pot dictatorship.
Crappy Appointments:Leon Panetta? Seriously? Okay, maybe if the highest qualification of the head of the CIA is the ability to lie without compunction, then he makes sense. In any other universe…. what the hell?
Tim Geithner……. well, if it takes one to know one, and Obama is serious about cracking down on tax cheats…..
Tom Daschle failed because he has more shame than Geithner, otherwise he would be heading HHS right now.
Kathleen Sebelius needed the PANDEMIC of the Swine Flu to sneak into her appointed position, because she is the most liberal, pro-abortion, pro-partial-birth militant and her nomination was in danger of being scrutinized in the senate.
Then there is Janet Napolitano. The Department of Homeland Security now cannot protect us from foreign terrorists, but they CAN protect us from right-wing extremists that are Americans. Oh, and the definition of a right-wing extremist means if you love this country enough to go to war for her, or vote, or believe in the constitution, or have a logical, reasoning mind.
Eric Holder, the architect of the ‘Americans are cowards when it comes to matters of Race’ Doctrine, failed to disclose his conflict of interest as a US attorney in advocating for the Marc Rich pardon from President Clinton. You would think the nation’s top law-enforcement official would be clearer on his responsibility under the law.
President Obama has used deception and backtracked when he feels the need, he has redefined what certain words or phrases mean. For example, when he says he doesn’t want to run car companies and banks, but he determines who the owners will be, and sets salary caps, and chooses on a whim to convert the preferred shares of stock to common stock AT NO BENEFIT to the US taxpayer, but it gives the US GOVERNMENT a controlling interest in voting stock in those banks, he is a liar. He says there will be tax cuts for 95% of Americans. There will be an increase in taxes for 100% of Americans to pay for all the bailout spending.
He has threatened the credit card industry and is setting his sights on the healthcare industry. He connected the tea parties with health care at a recent townhall meeting, which left many scratching their heads. He refuses to believe that there is a groundswell of resistance forming against him. He will overreach on the environment by pushing a cap and trade system that will destroy what is left of the economy. He disdains those who have earned their success through individual effort and ingenuity, telling college graduates to not pursue a life of success but to work for non-profits. I wonder where the non-profits will get their funding when there is no more capitalism…. oh, right, the government!
I pray that more and more Americans begin to wake up to the fact that we have been pummeled in the first four months of this Presidency, and that a more vocal and determined opposition will start holding our elected officials accountable and requiring them to act in the best interest of the people, and not their party or re-election campaigns.
Here is a great place to start. Attend an Independence Day Tea Party to show that we are determined and committed and this is not a flash-in-the pan. Then think really hard about going to the National Taxpayer Protest on 9/12 in Washington, DC. Let them SEE and HEAR you on the issues that matter.
We’ve got to get back up, and get into this fight, or we may never get up again.
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