YES TO MCCAIN-PALIN '08 FOR AMERICA
SARAH PALIN DRAWING HUGE CROWDS ALL ACROSS AMERICA
http://www.jeffhead.com/joeplumber.htm
Posted on 10/22/2008 8:14:50 AM PDT by RetiredArmy
Obama, Unchecked
The coming rout of Republicans will have major consequences.
Hopes of a Republican victory on the presidential level are already distant this year, but further down the ticket, hopes are simply nonexistent.
To be sure, there has been some good news. Rep. Jack Murtha (D., Pa.) could lose after calling his constituents "racist." His opponent, retired Lieutenant Colonel Bill Russell, will have at least $500,000 to spend in the campaign’s final weeks. Rep. Tim Mahoney (D., Fla.) could well fall after revelations that he engaged in numerous extra-marital affairs, paying hush-money to one mistress before obtaining a federal earmark for the other.
But these represent just two of 435 races in the U.S. House of Representatives. The cold, hard fact remains that Democrats are in position to win perhaps 30 House seats from Republicans, perhaps more. Members once believed to be safe now find themselves struggling to survive. According to sources in Florida, Rep. Tom Feeney (R., Fla.) may be the latest to enter this category.
In the Senate, Republicans finally gave up this week on their only serious pickup opportunity — the chance to defeat Sen. Mary Landrieu (D., La.). The pressure to spend money on defense had simply become too great. GOP Senate seats in New Mexico and Virginia were written off months ago. Seats in Alaska, New Hampshire, Minnesota, North Carolina, Colorado, and Oregon are all looking shaky. Republicans in Kentucky and Mississippi face uncomfortably close races. A filibuster-proof Democratic majority has become a real possibility.
In the absence of a Senate firewall or a significant coalition of opposition to his policies in the House, a President Barack Obama could make many permanent and sweeping changes to America’s economic policies. It is worth examining this conservative nightmare — the possible consequences of an unchecked Obama presidency.
Although a significant bloc of House Democrats has in the past provided a working majority against the most offensive pro-abortion legislation, this may no longer be possible after the election of 2008. Obama promised on July 17, 2007 that he would sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would strike down all of the incremental gains that pro-lifers have made in state and federal law on the issue of abortion. The bill would re-legalize partial-birth abortion, strike all state restrictions on government funding of abortions, and overturn state laws requiring parents to be notified when their minor daughters seek abortions. The bill has 19 Senate co-sponsors (including Obama) and 109 co-sponsors in the House. It will likely receive a vote in the 111th Congress, and it could well pass. Obama, who has opposed all restrictions even on late-term abortions, called this bill a top priority.
Obama’s economic policies will also move quickly and make a deep impression in law. His tax policy has been hard to pin down, as it keeps changing with the election season. But he appears to be serious about raising capital gains taxes from 15 to 20 percent (or higher, as his previous statements suggested) for the sake of “fairness,” as he has put it. That change could be made — and made permanent — if there are 60 votes in the Senate. Employers — both corporations and small businesses that pay personal income taxes on profits — could pay permanently higher taxes under Obama that make them less competitive, facilitating the further shipping of American jobs abroad. President Obama will be able to explain away any damage this does to the economy by blaming his predecessor, who is an easy enough target.
The failed cloture votes of the current Congress provide further indications of what an unchecked Obama presidency could look like. Exhibit A is the Employee Free Choice Act, an effort to expand union membership by removing the guarantee of secret-ballot elections in the workplace. It received 51 votes toward the 60 needed for cloture in June, with one Democrat absent, and it could easily achieve cloture in the coming Congress.
When Democrats decided to make “speculators” the bogey-men for a rise in world oil prices, their plans to limit trade on commodities markets hit a snag in the Senate. In June, they could only deliver 51 votes toward cloture, in the absence of Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama. With Obama in the White House and larger majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats have good odds of keeping their promise to reinstate the ban on offshore energy production that lapsed at the beginning of October. Caps on carbon emissions received 48 of the 60 Senate votes needed for cloture in June, and that was in the absence of Obama, Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.), Joe Biden (D., Del.), Ted Kennedy (D., Mass.) and two other Democrats. With their enlarged Senate majority and a willing president, this scheme of limiting carbon emissions by raising consumer energy prices could become reality as soon as next year.
As depressing as the future under total Democratic rule may appear for conservatives, far worse is the role Republicans have played to bring the United States in the direction of a centrally planned economy. Democrats cannot claim credit for nationalizing the mortgage market or directing nearly a trillion dollars to sustain a credit bubble on Wall Street. They cannot claim credit for recent years’ growth in government spending. They cannot claim credit even for the new entitlement that is paying for even the wealthiest senior citizens' prescription drugs at the expense of younger wage-earners, at a ten-year cost of $395 billion, according to new estimates from August.
Americans are already depending on government today as much as they ever have since the Great Depression, and Barack Obama cannot be blamed for it. If he wins and his unchecked presidency can make America drink of socialism, it will only be after President Bush and Congressional Republicans brought her to its waters.
Half the country is insane.
But the fact is, Clinton as DEMOCRAT was finished after Hillarycare. Clinton as "triangulator" was born, and had to toe the line pretty carefully on any permanent damage to the country.
I'm not saying an Obama presidency wouldn't be a disaster, or that he won't try to do all this and more. I'm saying people are fundamentally center-right, and as soon as they really push for this, you get "Dubai ports" kind of response.
Once the Fairness Doctrine is re-enacted, there will be no opposition media.
Once Amnesty is enacted, tens of millions of new Democrats will be voting.
Once Hate Laws are enacted, there will be no preaching from Church pulpits.
“The coming rout of Republicans will have major consequences.”
Suck eggs jackass. NRO is in the toilet.
The polls are all over the place. Zogby is trying to seel the idea of a Reagan-like blowout...while there are indications McCain just might pull this out.
There’s polls showing McCain pulling ahead in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, Nevada a toss up, etc. He might steal Michigan. Even with polls showing Obama ahead, history has shown such polls to be wrong, and in Reagans case, grossly wrong.
NRO = neocon shills...I’m done with them...
Heard the same thing about Clinton.
Can someone tell me the purpose of this article?
He’s saying the world is coming to an end -— but we can’t do anything about it.
Mr. Freddoso, go huddle in the corner in the fetal position. There’s work for the rest of us to do.
Correction- David Axelrod, UNCHECKED, will tell his Number One squirrel what to say and do.
You're right!
Many Americans will have some heavy lifting to do.
Instead of tossing bales of tea into Boston Harbor, we'll have to toss most of the 535 socialist pansies who rule our lives into the Potomac.
I wonder if it will even matter ... all they'll need to do is silence right and center-right voices, and the socialism will be shoved down our throats with nothing to stand in its way. That why the Fairness Doctrine will be one of the first things on the 'Rats' agenda.
I'm really afraid that it will take an armed insurrection to remove these bastards from power if Obama wins and the 'Rats have supermajorities in congress. In a word, we're f***ed.
Who the HELL is this writer and why does NR allow idiots like him and Kathleen Parker write this dripple ?
This crap reads like an Axelrod text message to the Obama nets !
Who is running the show now at the NR ???
That’s why the Founding Fathers put the 2nd Amendment in the Constitution.
Clinton didn't have a filibuster proof senate.
The Democrats have stated that they ARE going to implement the Fairness Doctrine.
The new Supremes will take care of that.
Thank you for ‘there’s work for the rest of us’ just when I was really getting depressed.
A large segment of the American population being taken in by a snake-oil saleman, who insults and demeans the hard-working among us, at every turn - whose running mate TELLS THEM that O is not the one, every time he is let lose to speak uncontrolled -
Watching so many people being manipulated so easily by a person who doesn’t even pretend to care about anything except money and power, is the real shocker for me.
Anyway, thanks for the sanity.
While France, Germany and Canada and even Sweden have elected conservative governments, it appears that the sheeple of this country are going the opposite route. Abortion on demand, the “Fairness” Doctrine, sky-high taxes, redistribution of wealth, reparations for slavery, and capitulation to our foreign enemies is only the beginning of the nightmare that is to come.
It seems that we will need to have “Jimmy Carter II” to really wreck this country before the sheeple wake up and put in another Reagan, assuming another Reagan is out there.
You will be surprised at the resilience and outrage of the American people, supermajority or not.
No, they are going to try. Big difference.
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