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?"
BO joined the socialist democrat party:
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-international-socialist-connections/
you say: “
the people WON’T put up with that. Second, probably 95% of the military is on our side. A good 80% or more of law enforcement is on our side.”
Think they don’t know that? watch this AND see post #240
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s
Even if he implodes, won’t his supporters never know and keep on the popular bandwagon? The American people are too easily fooled by their own ignorance.
I suppose much of the world today seems tinfoilish, to the plodding and dullwitted.
And, I guess it’s just sort of inexplicably “off” somehow, for those accustomed to having their heads up their backsides.
you are spot on.
See post #240 - one of the stratagems of the DSOC meeting I write about was " "WE MUST GET CONTROL OF THE RETIREMENT FUNDS."
What better avenue than thru' the so-called health care program that allows for the gov't to have total access to all your finances? You need expensive medical care? We'll take it out of your retirement... One operation could wipe that out.
We could start by gutting every agency in govt. of radical left wingers.
But a lot of people still do not have cable/satellite and get ONLY MSM. I find these people are the more liberal as that's all the swill and take on things that they see.
email everyone you know to clue them into this site where they can watch FOX NEWS online - FREE
That is the best education they can get and it will help us big time.
live link next post
http://www.blinkotv.com/
That is why it is so critical to stop this in it's tracks. Because once it gets passed,they will do what ever they want with it without the public even knowing what is being done.(midnight legislation)
Brilliant post and it had to be repeated I have been saying the same thing for weeks.
People just don’t think that far ahead. It’s a passion of the moment thing and Obama was the moment.
That is not the recent History of the voters in this country....
Excuse me. I didn't mean to insult any of FR's resident go-to experts on what constitutes the definition of "plodding and dullwitted".
Let’s not make it personal, shall we?
ROFL>>>Damn that is good....
2010 census?
You been out of the country for he past few months?
Our Bobble Head president not only has taken the Census Bureau out of the Constitutional Mandate of The Congress and transferred it illegally to the Administration - but he has hired and sent out 40,000 'census takers' THIS YEAR that have been systematically 'painting' our front doors with GPS - and doing long form interviews:
"How do you heat your house?"
How much is your electric bill?"
(These two will tie in nicely with the Super Grid they are ready to put on line that will allow them to turn your thermostat down at will - (live link next post - in his own words - even though his keeps the Oval Office at 77 in the winter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXIvmJ8xenc
"Do you work in a sweatshop?" etc etc etc
Mind you, the census will STILL be taken next year - but this illegal army of faux census takers have been out here since spring - and they are not your heretofore local folk. Mine was not even from my county. They got an ear-full.
Everyone sitting and waiting to 'vote them out' in 2010 may be in for a shock.
Our votes will no longer count. They will control this county for decades to come...The gerrymandering will already by done - with the stats they are illegally collecting today, pretending to be legal census takers.
We need Beck and all to bring this illegal information gathering to the screen...WE need them to answer:
"How much money is being spent for this illegal census only a year before the legal census? "
Emphasize that 40,000 are the payroll and demand to know who got these jobs - I don't recall anything offered locally as it always is at census time. Is ACORN involved?
This is crucial to get on the news....Why do they need to GPS your front door -why do the need the exact square foot co ordinance of your front door for a census count? (Good to strike the enemy when desired - but not needed for a head count.)
Get Beck, Hannity, Rush to cover this. see live link next post
He's nothing bu a Pretty, Polished Puppet see post # 99
See post # 99
That’s exactly what it is - END TIMES STRONG DELUSION as God said he would permit if a people continually rejected Him. Well it’s happened. Personally, I find the man and all those surrounding him so revolting and I experience such revulsion at even attempting to listen or look at them, that I can’t even understand the “followers”. We are different species for sure!! CO
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