Posted on 10/14/2008 5:55:03 AM PDT by pabianice
Worst Case Scenario What an Obama administration and a heavily Democratic Congress would accomplish. John McCain trails Barack Obama and shows no signs, at the moment anyway, of propelling himself into the lead. Democrats lead in eight Senate seats currently held by Republicans and are close in three others. In the House, Republicans once thought they'd lose only 5 to 10 seats. Now things look worse.
Thanks particularly to the month-long financial crisis, Republicans are in extremely poor shape with the election three weeks away. This means the worst case scenario is now a distinct possibility: a Democrat in the White House, a Democratic Senate with a filibuster-proof majority, and a Democratic House with a bolstered majority.
If this scenario unfolds, Washington would become a solidly liberal town again for the first time in decades. And the prospects of passing the liberal agenda--nearly all of it--would be bright. Enacting major parts of it would be even brighter. You can forget about bipartisanship.
Start with "card check." It would permit organized labor to unionize the private sector without winning a certification election by secret ballot. It's easy to get workers to sign cards saying they want a union, but it's hard to get them to vote that way when labor organizers aren't hounding them. Card check is labor's last hope for more dues-paying union members.
Unions simply aren't popular and neither is card check. But it passed the House last year, only to be blocked in the Senate by a Republican filibuster. In 2009, with Washington controlled by Democrats, it would sail through Congress and President Obama would
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So, anyone have suggestions on how we protect ourselves, our wealth, and our families
from a socialist government for the next generation?
At least if it really is a worst-case, then there’s no where to go but up.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. - H. L. Mencken
“Fairness Doctrine” would mean no more Rush, Hannity, Beck, etc. Gone. Done. The airwaves would experiencve ethnic cleansing.
We have not recovered from the damage of the nixon and carter administrations. Gov't take power, it keeps it.
I can’t think of a legal way, honestly. Even if you set-up an offshore account you’re still on the hook for ten years from that date . . . and if the National Socialists change the law then it will be all for naught.
Funny coming from a gloom and doomer Washington elitist suttering moron.
If he hates the idea so much, it would help a lot if he acted like it ain’t all over.
Barnes does nothing to help. If Obama wins, he will be shining up to him.
I’m a little more optimistic than that. Estonia was a Soviet Socialist Republic not long ago, and now it’s one of the most-free economies on the planet.
He forgot:
—Obama’s “Global Poverty Act”
—UN tax on financial transactions
—UN Law of the Sea Treaty (another UN tax and UN control over seabeds and oceans)
—Halting progress on anti-ballistic missile technology
For how long can a senator put a bill on hold?
yes, get out and vote...the take my toys and go home crowd brought us pelosi to “teach us a lesson”....well, i spit upon that crowd that refused to do their public duty and vote...
Not going to happen. The polls are fixed and Barnes lives in the Echo Chamber. McCain is actually in better shape than W, Ford and Reagan right now.
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
Well, here’s a bright side, at least David Frum, George Will, Bill Kristol, Ed Rollins, and Tommy Thompson will still get invited to the liberal’s cocktail parties.
Leave the country.
I’m thinking some “compound” in Montana might be calling our names...
/half kidding
SCREWED 08
and 09, 10, 11, 12...
I'm just sayin' . . . it's not as easy as moving to Freedonia.
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