Posted on 11/12/2008 8:09:25 PM PST by crusher
Many partisans think that the GOP will miraculously regain a place at the table in the 2010 elections, after the full onset of buyer’s remorse causes a portion of the electorate to return to them. I think this is unlikely to the point of delusion. The only immediate effect likely from the upcoming legislative onslaught will be a fundamental structural change in the political process, one which will place the GOP in general and conservatives in particular in a position of permanent disadvantage.
Some folks speak of “The First 100 Days.” I think we will see malignant results within the first few weeks.
1. One of the first items on the Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda is the squelching of contrarian speech. During the Bush 43 administration we learned from the Left that dissent was the essence of patriotism. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, we will soon learn that now the eradication of dissent is the order of the day. Given the collectivist and repressive nature of the agenda, squelching opposition is an absolute necessity. Look for the Fairness Doctrine to be front and center and pronto. In the absence of any organized opposition or even a disorganized opposition in the form of talk radio, coalescing an electoral opposition is so much more difficult in a world without free speech. If they can pull it off, and I fully expect that they will given the establishment media’s infatuation with The Chosen One and the cover they will provide as he leads the charge against the Fourth Estate, look for the Obamanistas to expand their grasp in this regard. Satellite broadcasting uses the airwaves, doesn’t it? And how about the internet, and its wireless aspects? This impulse to punish critics is what led to the illegal snooping into the personal life of Joe The Plumber, and the expulsion of reporters from O Force One once their newspapers endorsed McCain. There is simply no way to project the value of this advantage.
2. With the unholy alliance between ACORN and the Democrat Party, voter fraud will henceforth be a mainstream reality. And, The Chosen One is so deeply in bed with ACORN he’d better send them flowers in the morning. Over the next couple weeks we will see ACORN perfidy played out starkly in front of our eyes as they engineer the theft of elections unseating Norm Coleman in Minnesota and Saxby Chamliss in Georgia. We may in fact have seen the last of legitimate elections in or own nation as hundreds of thousands or even millions of fraudulent votes are being cast on behalf of Leftist Democrat candidates. Count one to two percent new permanent advantage to the Democrats.
3. Hand in glove with domestic voter fraud will be the normalization of tens of millions of alien invaders into the political fabric of the Democrat Party. In my view already 1/3 of Mexico’s citizens reside illegally in the USA; yes folks, that’s 50 million alien invaders. Legal immigrant Hispanics greeted Amnesty Juan with 1/3 of their votes, which means that 2/3 of the same immigrant electorate voted against the most outspoken advocate of amnesty. (I went to public schools but it was a long time ago when they still tyrannically insisted on correct answers to mathematical problems) No telling how many alien invaders will vote, but I’m willing to bet it will be even more virulent than their legal brethren. This immediately adds at least 5% to every Democrat candidate nationwide except for the Southwest, where it will be closer to 20%.
4. A third front in the electorate warfare policy is the coming legislation empowering unions to strong arm almost anyone they set their sights on. Since unions have long been both the piggy bank and the foot soldiers for the Democrat Party, naturally this advantage for the Dems will grow as well. It is worth billions of dollars for their coffers, and millions of man hours for their campaigns.
5. The full impact of the Bailout Mentality will not be known for months, years, or even decades. The immediate result is the rush to the trough for the free goodies. Mortgage industry now, auto industry tomorrow, airline industry next month, personal credit card debt next year. Sounds preposterous? So did the notion that two trillion dollars of taxpayer money would be thrown at corrupt money manipulators, albeit within a perverse framework of incentives established by Jimmah Carter, Xlintoon, Barney Fwank, and Chris Dodd. The last intrusion into the financial markets (to say “inappropriate intrusion of the government into the marketplace” would be redundant) was due mostly to minor meddling of the past. If you sow the wind and reap the whirlwind, I can only imagine what this episode of complete nationalization will yield. At the very least I expect to see inflation rates of 20% - 50% in the next 24 months since all the bailouts are financed with fiat money.
6. During the campaign The One assembled an internet army of 10 million agitators, activists, and underwriters. Obamessiah has promised to keep this army of political extortionists at the ready, willing and able to pounce on any opposition The Great one would ever encounter. Since this is an unprecedented development in American politics, I have no idea how this will play out. But I am confident it will not redound to the cause of liberty and prosperity.
7. My own personal fascination will be to follow the asylum previously known as the U.S. Congress. Unrestrained by an opposition party veto threat in the White House, expect the moonbats to be in full braying mode. Speaker of the House Nancy Nutcakes has been only barely under control with the constant discipline imposed by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (alas, my “representative”) and pragmatic Chicago thug Rahm Emmanuel. Now that Emmanuel is moving on to run the White House, something I predict he will accomplish brilliantly, Nancy Nutcakes and her fellow travelers in the House should run free with quite a head of steam. That will be amusing and terrifying to watch. And with the Left possessing a filibuster proof majority in the Senate (in addition to every Dem but one being a lefty, and a handful of GOP RINOs sharing their views it is a fait accompli) there is no legislation too whacky to make it to the Oval Office desk for signature. And forget ever having a legitimate judiciary again in our lifetimes.
8. Many folks hold on to the hope that the Republicans can stand in the way of the Left’s agenda steamroller. This is a vain hope. GOP leadership is in a state of complete chaos at every national instance. For me to have any confidence in their ability to serve as a hurdle for the New Deal Part Deux I would have to see a complete replacement of leadership in all three institutions; Senate, House, and Republican National Committee. Near as I can tell, the purge is being complete only at the RNC, so GOP “leadership” will not be leading us anywhere any time soon.
9. Obamessiah’s promise to establish an armed Civilian Security Corps should be enough to scare the living bat crap out of every person within the sound of my voice. At the very least it could be used to intimidate most of the sheeple into behaving like, well, sheeple.
10. Regardless of what transpires specifically, it is clear that we no longer have an independent media. They have dropped any pretense of virtue and have cast their lot with a new Beloved One. Media cheerleaders will go to whatever ends they must in order to protect their Beloved and earn his affection. Without the alternate media to counterbalance them, expect truth to become a scarce commodity.
Wow! Thanks for cheering us up!
All ten points are perfectly true.
Lawyers, guns and money.
I fear you are right, particularly regarding the illegal aliens.
Sure there may be a traditional voter backlash like we had a couple of years ago, but by the time the next election comes around we won’t matter, because all of those illegals will be voting.
I’m not big into the whole doom and gloom thing, but we could very well be finished as a relevant national political power.
Very good points. Out situation has become ......beyond disgusting.
United States of America,
Born: July 4th, 1776
Died: November 4th, 2008
“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
We lost it.
To be frank, I think you’re an optimist.
All of this is a very plausible scenario if everything goes perfectly for the Democrats in the next 2 years in power.
All we have to do is to look at the Republicans when we had control of the legislature and the POTUS to see that things don’t always go the way you have planned.
Things will happen that no one has prepared for that if we respond the right way we can be back in a more favorable position with gains in the Senate and House in 2010.
Reagan suffered the worst as unemployment continued to go up during his first two years, before finally beginning to come down.
We are currently pushing up towards 7% unemployment. Don't need people to do the jobs Americans won't do, anymore.
Bump.
McCain won 55 percent of the white vote. With that, he probably would have won the presidency in say, 1980. But the new nation we've immigrated in place of the one that elected Reagan won't elect conservatives.
The Electoral College map says it all. With the Southwest and Florida flipping blue or should we say “azul” (and even Texas will too eventually) the Presidency is being put out of reach of Republicans.
The fact that even a fanatic open-borders idiot like McCain can't sway the new nation, so long as he's the R in the race, would be funny ...were the consequences of permanent leftist rule not so devastating.
Some folks think they can act with impunity, and there won’t be consequences.
He nails it.
To be frank, I think you’re an optimist.
The whole situation is deteriorating and the sheeple
aren’t to be relied upon for any improvement.
That’s it.
I’m starting a plan to move to Alaska
11. Obama’s promised 95% tax cut which is actually a socially engineered redistribution of wealth will add another 10% of voters who do not pay any federal taxes. Wanna raise taxes on everyone else? No problem. The 50%+ who don’t pay anything will keep them in office.
I believe this is the last election for a long time. ACORN is so well organized and has been going on for so long with everyone being aware of the organization and not taking it seriously. The apathy on the republican side is embarrassing. Obama will stack the courts with thug judges and the thought of a civilian brown shirt military force absolutely terrifies me. I do believe before that happens though the people or at least 50 million who actually work will just boycott and not work and just bring the country to its knees. Not a pretty picture but I think we are heading in a direction of anarchy!
Imo, unemployment is worse than 7% when you factor in the underemployed. You get let go from a sixty thousand dollar a year job to work as a Wall Mart greeter doesn’t even factor into those statistics. :( People are hurting.
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