Posted on 11/02/2008 9:09:15 PM PST by buccaneer81
Tom Glennon I Got Nowhere Else to Go
2008-11-02
So, what can I expect from an Obama Presidency, a Reid Senate, and a Pelosi House?
The elimination of the Bush tax cuts will immediately raise my income taxes by 24 percent. This increase will impact our household income, based on my wife’s salary, and my retirement pension.
The Obama tax plan will increase the number of working people who don’t pay income taxes from 35 percent to almost 45 percent.
The promised 25 percent cut in defense spending will put our nation at risk.
Energy costs will skyrocket with the implementation of ‘cap and trade’. The coal industry will be bankrupted.
A private army, answerable only to President Obama and outside of constitutional constraints, will be created.
Abortions will increase dramatically as a result of the ‘free choice act’.
Non union workers will lose their right to a secret ballot when voting on unionization, leaving them open to intimidation, threats, and physical harm with the ‘card check’ act.
The proposed hate crime laws will eliminate free speech in our houses of worship.
Medical care will be distributed and rationed by unelected bureaucrats, rather than medical professionals.
The ‘fairness doctrine’ will monitor free speech, and squelch dissenting voices. Criticism of the administration will result in legal threats, investigations, and official harassment.
The Supreme Court will be packed with judges who do not have any respect for the Constitution, as personal agendas will be acceptable.
The President will ignore Constitutional constraints and responsibilities, as he believes it is “fundamentally flawed”.
Gun owners will be restricted in what they may purchase, and the type of ammunition they can use. Home owners will be criminally charged if they use a firearm to defend their family or property. Gun manufacturers will be driven out of business through new taxes and restrictions. Legal gun owners will eventually have their firearms confiscated, as we saw in New Orleans, Washington and Chicago.
Radio stations that criticize the administration will lose their FCC licenses.
I wish I was making these up, but each of my comments is the result of listening to Barack Obama statements, reading his writings, or watching how his campaign staff acts. In other words, there is documentation for each of the statements I have made.
When asked why he would not quit his basic training in “An Officer and a Gentleman”, Richard Gere famously replied “I got nowhere else to go”. America has been the world’s last, best hope for over 230 years. I fear that is about to change. Will my grandsons grow up in the freedom I have enjoyed, or will America fundamentally change? I hope not, because I too have nowhere else to go.
That was powerful.
If we survive the Obamathon somehow, like outnumbered troops outwitting a large enemy....we should really think about our issues (economy, trade, illegal immigration, social issues, welfare) and put some common sense back into our lives.
He nails it very succinctly.
“The Supreme Court will be packed with judges who do not have any respect for the Constitution, as personal agendas will be acceptable.”
Roosevelt wanted to “pack the court” by adding more judges. He didn’t get his wish. But I’d like to make a prediction (IF Obama wins, that is) - this is a “you read it here first on FreeRepublic”:
As it stands (or, more correctly, sits) now, the Court has a conservative core of five justices:
Scalia
Thomas
Alito
Roberts
Kennedy (marginally conservative, but still conservative)
Thus, replacing the leftist justices if they retire - Ginsburg, Stevens, Souter - will not change the current political demeanor of the Court, and bring about a liberal Court that will work Obama’s will on the country.
I predict that if elected, Obama will conspire with the democrats in Congress to trump up charges on the _sitting_ conservative justices, to impeach them, and FORCE them off the Court. After which, of course, there will be additional vacancies to fill and create that elusive liberal majority.
Just getting rid of two of the “rightists” might be all that’s needed.
Preposterous, you say?
Wait and see!
- John
Has it been decisively established that there are a fixed number of supreme court justices? If not than watch out....
And also reach out to whoever we can and try to influence minds. The sense of community in this country has really suffered. Everyone is so isolated into their special groups that perhaps many don't feel like they're part of a larger and greater whole.
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Foley: "I want your DOR."
Zack: "No sir."
Foley: "I want your DOR!"
Zack: "I ain't gonna quit."
Foley: "Spell it! D O R!"
Zack: "I ain't gonna quit!"
Foley: "You can forget it! You're out!"
Zach: "DON'T YOU DO IT! DON'T! YOU...I GOT NOWHERE ELSE TO GO! I got nowhere else to g...I got nothin else."
I got nothin else
America is the last bastion of freedom.
All these characters we are infested with, who want a Socialist Paradise?
They could move to Sweden, or Canada, or Britain...
We, have no where else to go.
There is no fixed number in the Constitution. Congress has the power to set the number.
That is very, very, bad IMHO. Obama the revolutionary Marxist is up to no good. Big time no good IMHO.
I don’t think for a second that he would hesitate to increase the number of justices to 15 or whatever it would take to eliminate the danger of interference with his unconstitutional plans. Will he have a filibuster proof rubber stamp congress to clap and cheer when he makes the suggestion?
No there is no set number.
Go read up on FDR and the Supreme Court.
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