The Bear Trap for Obama and the Democrats

Conservative Exile ^ | 01/24/09 | Scoop LaRue

[ScoopLarue]

Apparently, Republicans are supposed to hang their heads, accept the unacceptable, and resign themselves to a minimum sentence of four years under the single party rule of liberal Democrats. We are expected to be "good losers" and rise above our base instinct to lash out at the new icon of the socialist dream, unlike the way that these self-same Democrats hysterically lashed out at George W. Bush for eight long years. Conservatives have been cowed into watching silently as Obama takes the oath of office while the media recites the litany of their new deposit of faith in this omnipotent Messiah.

Just to be sure that no Republican awakens the day after Obama's inaugural with a shred of hope for the future, Patrick J. Buchanan poses the question: Is GOP Still a National Party? His answer is akin to throwing an anchor to a drowning man.

While that Democratic base is not yet as decisive as the Nixon-Reagan base in the South, and the Plains and Mountain States, it is becoming so solidified it may block any Republican from regaining the White House, in the absence of a catastrophically failed Democratic president.

Thanks, Pat. That's just the sort of hopeless message every Republican needs to hear, especially today. With friends like this, who needs enemies...right? Well, I refuse to drink the hemlock. The Republicans are down, but I refuse to count them out, at least, not yet. I see hope in the last part of Buchanan's statement, "...in the absense of a catastrophically failed Democratic president."

I don't think it will even take a catrastrophic failure on the part of Obama to turn the American public against the Democrats and their liberal/socialist agenda. Buchanan points out that the growing constituency of the Democrats, the ones who overwhelmingly voted for Obama's lofty redistribution promises, are the big consumers of entitlements and social welfare programs. The most rapidly growing segment of that population - recent U.S. immigrants. According to Buchannan, "Nearly 90 percent of immigrants, legal and illegal, are Third World poor or working-class and believe in and rely on government for help with health and housing, education and welfare."

That is the big bear trap for Obama and the Democrats. By the time they finish bailing out Wall Street and big corporate campaign donors, there will be no money left to make good on promises of "redistribution" or expanding social welfare programs. The backlash will be swift and punishing. If you don't think so, just try promising the corner panhandler a dollar and see what happens when you walk away without giving it to him.

And, what do you expect the reaction from Obama's African-American constituency will be four years from now? Forget the few wingnuts who actually think that Obama is going to put gas in their car, pay their rent, and make them rich - the expectations of the majority still border on the irrational. Four years down the road, blaming the failures on George W. Bush won't cut it any better than when Clinton tried to blame his failures on George H.W. While they may not be ready to concede that "making history" brought little improvement in their day-to-day lives, I have a hundred dollar bill that says they will take out their frustrations out on the Democrat-controlled Congress. It could well be 1993 revisited for the Democrats. 

I don't know about you, but I do not have my head hung low. I am fired up. While Obama and the Dems are busy sawing off that shaky limb they're sitting on, conservative Republicans will be given some much needed breathing room to fall back, regroup, and emerge stronger than ever in 2012. The next four years won't be easy - expect some pain - but take some comfort in knowing that Obama and the Democrats are rushing headlong toward a bear trap that will leave them without a leg to stand on.

[ScoopLarue]

The big bear trap for Obama and the Democrats: hopes dashed and change for the worse. Will 2012 be 1993 revisited?

[screaminsunshine]

Pat sold out to MSNBC.

[screaminsunshine]

But it is nice to hear some optimism. The problem is the Republicans seem to be falling in line with the Libs.

[Bhoy]

That’s why I’m here on Saturday night reading political articles. Monday morning there will be a printout to this friend or that a little chat around the water cooler at work. A little chat with the guy at the corner store & a printout of something I thought he might find interesting.

[The_Media_never_lie]

"...in the absense of a catastrophically failed Democratic president."

Just what, pray tell, does Pat Buchanan think we are facing????

[skinkinthegrass]

I ain't giving-up...

not now / or ever.

[celtic gal]

Some of the elected officials who are Republican seem to be lying down with the snakes..but those not in office, those in fly over country are not happy and these skunks are going to get Orkined...we will terminate them. They will have to hit the bricks and let's while we are at it take away their pensions. Those fu(*&^g dems want to take our rights away..our guns, our religion, our right to life for the unborn, and we are being taxed now without representation.

[torchthemummy]

I think the biggest trap the Dems are going to fall into is when the impact, real and future-certain, of legislation to "combat Global Warming" becomes readily clear on a variety of personal levels.

I have a glimmer of optimism that as it becomes clear that gas prices will be purposely edged up to a permanent $4 or $5 range via taxes, lack of increased oil, gas, coal and nuclear supply and at the same time the promises for the "green energy" technologies prove to be beyond realistic replacement capability, that is when the bells will start ringing. Not to mention whole industries decimated by a promise of "cleaner" energy sources that simply won't materialize. And once the first big scandal that exposes the fantasy world of carbon offsets and carbon credits and cap and trade and the manipulation of it all, while denying the ability to audit, will again break the Dems levy.

All anyone conservative needs to ask of a GW believer is WHAT will replace fossil fuels and nuclear? What energy will be used to create the new energy? Will they demand that Al Gore or John Edwards or Warren Buffet or George Soros or (insert limousine liberal) sell their jets and mansions and power/house boats in the name of combating GW? Heck, will THEY downsize their carbon footprint? I could go on and on but I'm simply singing to the choir.

[Gigantor]

ping

[steel_resolve]

WHat’s the point even if the repubs retake congress? What will they have learned? They are chaste now, but with the wind at their backs in 10 (big if) they will be back to business as usual. Nothing will change.

[hosepipe]

Optimists are as insane as the liberals..
Even AFTER the political coup.. they deny it happened..

Better face the coup then divide the democrats and conquer..
Which should have already happened.. but didn't..

Serious republican coniving could divide the democrats..
Pit them against each other.. the democrats are MOBS of mobsters..

Political gang warfare (among demos) is the republicans only option..

[Fitzy_888]

The Democrats are counting on the votes of Republican dolts, so they don’t appear to singularly take the country into the abyss. This gives them the cover and further diminishes the relevance of Republicans as an ongoing concern.

You want to get a handle on the bailouts? This is what the Republicans should consider.

This crisis is largely about the loss of good faith. At the two extremes, the solution is strict accountability or many dump trucks full of money. The government is hell bent on the latter. There is no amount of your money they won’t spend to defray responsibility!

We need to, first and for most, is identify politicians that are a large part of the mortgage/lending cartel. Democrats are thick as thieves in this mortgage/lending crisis.

But, regardless of party (YES), make it clear that regardless of how much hush money is proposed -there will be no cover. They will sink or swim on their own. Consider it swapping chess pawns. Knights, bishops -so be it.

I’d like a reko case pyramid for the big fish, they could sell posters to raise bailout funds –I’d buy one.

[SERE_DOC]

At what point indeed, there is little difference between either party. it is not until the people of the U.S. realize that we infact have the power not these socialists that were elected to lead us.

By gross indifference they have become masters in this socialist wet dream world that they are preparing for the near future. The question for America is how long do we sit by and allow them to bastardize our American way of life.

Change the Bill of Rights? I have seen posts to this effect, why stop there they can by proxy take away our freedoms, to assemble, own weapons, be taxed out of everything we own.

Not that I am overly materialistic,and will do my part to Support & Defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic (Just like I did 32 years ago) but what if the bulk of the masses capitulate then we have Germany 1938 all over again.

my God! my God! I do fear for the republic.

[Fitzy_888]

The Republicans should rake the muck on the mortgage/lending scandal, formally/informally -continually. 70% of the population would support that endeavor instantly. That’s how you turn around on a dime.

[Lancey Howard]

That is the big bear trap for Obama and the Democrats. By the time they finish bailing out Wall Street and big corporate campaign donors, there will be no money left to make good on promises of "redistribution" or expanding social welfare programs.

Horse manure.
Zero and the scumbags have already resolved that the deficit is no object. They will laugh and throw money at their base constituency, the parasites, like Santa Claus on nitrous oxide.

[ScoopLarue]

Until recently, I had the same reservations. The GOP has been led into the ditch by neocons and centrists, many of whom still hold power seats in the party. But, things are changing. There is a grassroots movement of conservatives that are being successful at supplanting the do-nothing moderates at the local and state organizations. They are bringing pressure to bear on the RNC, too, and that's being reflected in the candidates who are front-runners for the chair of the RNC. It's going to take some time, but I'm really encouraged by what I'm seeing locally and in my own state. Conservatives are rightly pissed and motivated and mobilizing to retake the GOP. Success depends on ALL of us getting involved in our local organizations, again. If you walked away from the party years ago (like I did) I encourage you to get re-involved.

[dware]

The GOP isn't dead...yet. They are simply being assimilated into the Democratic party. To listen to John McStain this last week during Hitlery's confirmation hearing, you couldn't tell that just a few months ago he was the standard bearer for the GOP. RINO's abound in Washington and, so far, there is no sign of anyone that will perform the necessary CPR.

I have been a Republican for as long as I can remember. And the first memory that comes to mind is being nine years old and knocking on doors with my Gramps in support of a local Pubbie candidate. Then later, I was knocking on doors for Gramps himself. This continued until I was 17 and able to register to vote because I would be 18 by the time the next election rolled around. Finally, in 2000, I spent evey spare moment I had campaigning for W while running my own campaign for State Rep. I lost, but the Pubbies won BIG TIME. I remember how happy and excited everyone was here on FR after the 2000 elections. We had a majority in the House, Senate, and now we controlled the White House. And what was done with that political capital? NOTHING! It was COMPLETELY squandered. Despite the power and position we held, the phrase of the day was bi-partisanship. We went out of our way to "reach across the aisle" when the only reason to do so should have been to CRUSH the liberal traitors and their ignorant policies. But no, we don't do that type of thing, because we are better than that. Which brings us to where we are today - listening to the death knells of our once Grand Old Party under the fists of the socialists. So much for being fighters...

[Cacique]

Never surrender, or the alternative will be dismal. We cannot repeat history, we simply cannot afford to.



Ideas are more powerful than guns. If we don't let our people have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
-- Josef Stalin

[skinkinthegrass]

We cannot repeat history, we simply cannot afford to.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. If we don't let our people have guns, why should we let them have ideas? -- Josef Stalin

I hear ya...
here's another "Uncle Joe" Quote: "If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves"....certainly sounds like Zer0Bambi et.al.

"Socialism is great until you run out of someone elses money" Margaret Thatcher
"Troika / Footstool of Liberalism...Corruption, Nationalization & Propaganda" Rush Limbaugh
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P.J.O’Rourke

[Cacique]

He tried that ploy with Yugoslavs, my father’s folks. It didn’t work, didn’t work for the germans either.