Posted on 08/30/2009 4:31:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Never has an administration who had more firepower at their disposal, been set to so totally fail in the next six to eight weeks. It is nearly a foregone conclusion. It is nearly unavoidable. And it defies all logic given the sizable majority the administration has in both houses of Congress.
Since I was the first pundit to predict Obama's presidency (Dec 2006) it behooves me to tell you the course I believe the next few weeks will take and effectively halt the radical transformation that the left appeared unstoppable with only months ago.
1. Health Care's long and painful death.
Barring the existing possibility that the Democrats cram a reform bill down the throats of actively protesting Americans through an ultra-partisan process that would shut out conservatives and Republicans from even being allowed to contribute to the discussion, health care reform is dead. It actually died a good while back when the President decided to pivot and create a new issue that no one had been discussing--health insurance reform. The American people will want to know why we should spend $4 billion to cover everyone in America "efficiently," when we already do so with inefficiencies like people using the emergency room as their general practitioner for $2.5 billion. Deep thinkers on the issue want to know why the President hasn't entertained one item of tort reform--protecting his friends, the trial lawyers--yet is willing to claim that doctors are eager to lop off feet, tonsils, and foreskin just to make a buck.
2. Cap & Trade will be the largest tax increase in American history.
With the 2010 election cycle just around the corner, campaign ads are not far off from being drafted. With Cap & Trade still sitting in legislative limbo, with the President's own advisor--Warren Buffet--now opposing it openly on media, with the 9.12 project in the works in which the largest gathering of anti-tax Americans from the left, right, and middle will be coming to Washington DC on September 12, and with blue dogs getting absolutely hammered in their home districts supporting it, the chance of single-party ram through victory on the matter is not wise. Cap & Trade, if passed, will contribute to unemployment, Wall Street stop and starts, and ultimately reduced treasury revenues. It would serve as the single largest tax increase on the average American in all of American history. Even President Obama admitted as much, predicting that electric bill prices, in his words, would, "skyrocket." Those that have looked at the specifics tell us that the average utility bill in America will go from $167 to $307 per month, per family.
3. Unemployment to remain high.
Now several Washington organizations from left and right, and one of note consisting of both--the Congressional Budget Office, predicts that unemployment will not shrink from the predicted "Obama high" of 8%. Instead, nearly without fail, economists are predicting unemployment at or over 10% for up to the next 24 months. That is nearly 250% the increase in unemployment under Bush for nearly the duration of his two-term presidency. If people were working, higher taxes and possible new health care entitlements could be considered, but without them working it is political suicide for Democrats to even think of it.
4. Obama's integrity tarnished in August.
Not a great deal has been made of the whoppers that the President has been spewing while the Federal Government has been in recess, but it is worth noting that many more people than I had previously realized have notice the President "exaggerating" badly in his talks on health care. For instance confusing he actual $500 physicians get to amputate a foot as opposed to the $50,000 that he claimed they got. He has shown an utter disregard for the reputation of those he talks about, the "facts" he uses to make his argument, and is highly overly optimistic about the results of his policies. Long story short, at the beginning of the summer Americans mostly trusted him, his passion index was at +10, he heads into the fall at -14.
5. A $3 trillion dollar budget.
New spending for this and that sure added up. And that brings me to number 6.
6. A coming middle class tax hike.
They will hem and haw. There will be an official, and ever arrogant Robert Gibbs explanation from the White House Press room as to why they must to do this to be "good stewards" and to be a "responsible administration" that, "pays as it goes." But the truth is, in order to pay for everything they've promised and budgeted for, a tax is looming for small businesses and working families that President Obama promised would never come. And as an aside, he was going to break that promise all along. Because the minute the "Bush tax relief" runs out in 2010, middle class taxes would be going up in an "Obama administration." Hence fundamentally Obama's "not a single dime" pledge on the campaign trail was bollocks start to finish.
Of course the President, the Democrats, the left, and Congressional leadership could surprise me. They could show up in September and endorse the Coburn health care bill in the U.S. Senate and swipe the credit for it. They could show up next week and fight with all their might to not allow the tax rates to skyrocket in 2010. They could decide to scrap Cap & Trade and re-think the use of public money for true job-based economic stimulation.
But I'm not holding my breath, and I'd advise you against it as well.
They've awakened the American worker, the American small-business owner, and the American voter.
All three of which are now wondering aloud, "What on earth have we done?"
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, AS USUAL.
BTW, Bro, I trust, if there’s a net and you have access, and something happens to me . . . you’ll carry on as long as possible?
Yeah, I held my nose and voted for McCain in the general election. It was a lesser of two evils thing.
Some say festivities will start in Sep. Some say Oct. Even if it’s delayed 3-18 months—it’s coming
FAR FAR FAR SOONER THAN ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD WISH.
You don’t realize what you’re asking for.
I agree.
Most Americans are so busy just trying to survive that they do NOT have a clue what is going on.
I believe we are up against True EVIL.
INDEED.
Remember, there are
30,000 Iranian sleeper agents already in the USA
who’s sole task
is to murder all preachers, evangelists, ministers etc. . . . particularly of the authentic Evangelical/Pentecostal churches. . . . but 30,000 could probably cover most churches.
Thanks for your kind words.
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.
MARANATHA.
Technicalities are what this country is built on. We need to monitor everything that comes out of these czars and fight it. They have no authority over us.
Ahh but the President does have authority and they “have the President’s ear.”
A few years ago,
a FREEPER Navy Captain, I think it was retired.
I FREEPMAILED him and asked him what percentage of the Officer Corps he guessed was filled by globalist stooges/ sympathizers.
He said about 30%.
I felt he was right.
I believe you are wrong.
I believe we need to start a list of what we CAN do.
#1 Prepare for the worst
#2 Pray
#3 Fight back
Suggestions anyone?
We're between a rock and a hard place and the only one laughing is Satan.
Hi, Quix!
Do you have any docs on the sleeper intentions you can either put on here or send to my private email?
LoL... I stopped wearing my tin foil beanie so that the government could read my mind...
Then it dawned on me they could care less what I think.. Duuugh..
I tried to get FREEPERS
to just share phone numbers with one another and form phone trees years ago.
Still difficult to get folks to bother.
Organizing is great.
Won’t do a lot in this context.
Would help tons in specific locales. Some mostly authentic Christian locales could benefit.
However, organizing also sets effective patriots up to be more targeted.
imho, the most beneficial use of time and resources is preparing one’s family and walking closer to God doing HIS WORK FOR HIS KINGDOM.
ALL ELSE IS CHAFF. ALL ELSE IS CHAFF.
Christ will preserve whatever is to be preserved of the USA after it’s cleansing. Community organizing will turn out to have been grossly inadequate to even preserve it’s own hide, much less the Republic.
INDEED.
I voted for Palin. McChurian just happened to be on her dress tails.
TRUE EVIL . . .
soonish to be revealed . . . incarnate.
You know I am a student of the prophesy conference material coming out of England (Bullinger, Welch, Robert Anderson, Gooch, et al) from 1890 to 1920.
Those men all taught that the “fifth kingdom” of Daniel would be, as they said, MOHAMMEDANISM.”
4. CONNECT WITH LIKE MINDED SOULS WISELY.
5. Develop phone trees and quick actions to take given various probable contingencies. Insure all familiy members have the phone tree and alternate regathering locations.
6. COME UP WITH MULTIPLE CONTINGENCY PLANS.
7. Insure all have a bugout backpack with them at all times. Mine has been with me the last 20 years even in Church.
are you willing to maintain a ping list of such a list of items and those who contribute to it, are interested in it?
I have enough ping lists to handle.
Please add me.
INDEED.
Right you are.
GOD IS STILL GOD AND THOSE WHO SEEK AND LOVE HIM FOR WHO HE IS WLL BE CLOSE TO HIM WHETHER MARTYRED OR NOT.
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