John / Billybob
Why will we be in a war with the Muslims. We’ve got a muslim in the white house who will simply surrender.
Visualize Obama standing outside of Air Force one just after his returning from his important meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (hastily arranged after Iran wiped Israel off the map) proclaiming peace in our time.
Any bets as to how long it will take Ruth Bader-Ginsberg to hand in her retirement papers? She’s been hanging by a thread despite ill-health in hopes of at Dem president.
My guess is that nothing will stick to The One. A mild recession that gets worse? The media will say, "that's the Bush Recession - imagine how bad it would have been if we didn't have Obama spreading the wealth to cushion the effects." A war that spreads to more uncivilized countries? The media will tell us how much better off we are with The One keeping it from spreading further. Trampling the Constitution? The media will claim that the Court is doing its job by giving special protection to the weakest among us. I doubt that anyone will realize what it means to set the precedent that the actual words in the Constitution mean nothing, at least not until too late.
Even then, they will blame the depression on Bush and the Republicans and suggest, or better still, demand, that the Obama policies that created the depression be extended because they were "the only things keeping it from being worse".
In short, the standard narrative will be that everything that goes well will be proof of Obama's near-deity status and everything that goes wrong will still be the fault of Bush and the GOP, and thankfully Obama saved us from it being worse.
I will be prepping for the next attack. Comfortable shoes for work, making sure my medications for b.p. and diabetes are in my pocket book and making sure my children, although they are adults, find one another and stay together.
I’m curious as to why you ranked permanent damage to the Constitution last in importance. Did you perhaps substitute “decreasing” where you meant “increasing”? Wars and depressions come and go, but the Constitution is a transcendent document. IMHO, it’s destruction is the greatest threat of the Obamer Oddministration.
My greatest fear in the near term is the next terrorist attack on our soil (it is coming) and Obama’s response.
I would expect that priority will be given to ensuring that they never lose their majorities. This means (not necessarily in this order): amnesty and citizenship for millions of illegals; enactment of laws aimed at stifling political opposition (fairness doctrine, hate crime legislation, campaign finance reform); getting judges appointed who share their beliefs and will rule according to these (the Constitution will mean what they say it means). Much of this can be done fairly quickly. Getting judges appointed might take a while but if they move to expedite the process it won’t take all that long.
As for those who hope that the filibuster will prevent much of this I ask: Why would the rats not impose their own version of the “nuclear option” and so render the filibuster inoperative? Who is going to stop them? The media won’t object but will supply justification for the act.
All this assumes the rats will remain as united in the majority as they were as the minority. I suspect that they will remain so united at least for the first year or two which is about all the time they will need.
Heinlein said it best: " 'Surrendering to the inevitable' means rolling with the punches, not groveling before the guards."
(...or something like that )
The SOB can never make good on the myriad of promises he’s made. He will be a mediocre president at best.
I predict in less than two years his approval rating will be less than half what it is now, as the dolts who voted him in wake up and realize they’ve been had.
Surely Paul Volcker knows what caused the Great Depression. If Obama increases taxes and tariffs, it's a pretty good bet he knows the consequences. It won't surprise me a bit if he does it deliberately. It's how despots seize greater power.
He can spend the next four years blaming Bush and the Republicans for it, and his voters will eat it up.
I have said for years that the Last World War will be between Caucasians and non-Caucasians, and the Russians will be on our side.
I just hope it takes him a year to get to gun reforms. The one thing about being 20 is that you can’t get a CCW till 21. The rest.. I need to put in God’s Hands, cause there’s nothing I can do now but prepare.
John,
Tahnk you for another well worded post.
How bad will it be? Bad. Real bad.
The war party is back in power. Prayers for our military. And goodbye Constitution.
I’m sorry, I just can’t be as optimistic as you are.
I think Russia will make a move, relying on its old tactic of using proxies.
They may hit close to home, instigating trouble South of the Border, via Chavez or the drug cartels.
The fate of the country rests on the willingness of Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter and John McCain to participate in fillibusters.
I don’t like our odds.