Posted on 09/22/2008 1:51:30 PM PDT by george76
Thinking the unthinkable.
Like all races, this campaign has come down to a lot of “if-then” statements.
America is already unimpressed with the Pelosi-Reid Congress. This is, with a few changes, who President Obama would be making laws with — a House Ways and Means chairman who doesn’t understand the tax laws he writes, a House speaker who does freelance diplomacy with dictators...
In the Senate, President Obama will have Robert Byrd holding the purse-strings in Appropriations, ensuring that most of the new president’s national initiatives will be based out of West Virginia. On the Banking Committee, Chris Dodd will watch the financial markets ...
Will Obama keep his word and meet, without precondition, with the rulers of North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, and Iran in his first year? If he does, will Mahmoud Ahmadinejad make concessions to President Obama? Will Medvedev will take it easy on the new kid?
We won’t see significant offshore drilling under President Obama. What do you think the price of gasoline will be in the summer of 2009?
The Left will score some major victories in the first years of an Obama administration: Card check, ensuring that voices of opposition within unions are quashed. They’ll probably pass some version of the Fairness Doctrine, although many ordinary Americans might wonder why talk radio alone requires the government to step in and set content requirements.
They’ll hike taxes and ... the real trouble comes from a nationalized health-care system. Once created, those programs are nearly impossible to repeal, and the public always buys the argument that they’re underfunded, no matter how poorly they’re managed.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Over under on his hair turning solid white: 6 months.
donate.....volunteer....attend rallies....support McCain and Palin
The next 2-4 years promise to be challenging for our nation.
Given this, it would be much simpler politically to let Obama win and retake Congress in 2010 - especially given that our own nominee isn’t much of a conservative.
The problem with this approach is that the nation is too important to trust its future with someone unqualified to manage even a Burger King. This is not a repeat of 1993 with Clinton. We gave a global war on terror, multiple Supreme Court vacancies, and more.
As tempting politically as it might be, we cannot allow BO to become POTUS.
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