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 NOT paranoid. These thugs don’t plan to carry through with the 2010 elections. It’s all planned. They feel untouchable and unless the entire country together with the Military rise up and physically remove them, they will stay just where they are for as long as the eye can see. It was a very bad move America and the consequences are going to be terrible. There will be NO easy way out of this. CO
From your keyboard to God’s ears!!!
Well gee, Kevin, nobody's ever been to "the next six to eight weeks," how could anyone have been so set to fail in October of 2009?
How do you know she was blind? She was from Code Pink
There is not much more that I can add then you are exactly right
#86 - well put!! CO
This article is right on the mark. I consolidated some of my previous posts and I fear and pray that what I’m about to say WILL NOT happen.
I’m absolutely convinced that the only way to save this CommuFascist regime is a national emergency, real or contrived. The regime can’t create an “external” crisis through a new war or the invasion of some country for obvious reasons.
If bin Laden refuses to pitch in with a horrific attack on US soil, after the libs opened the door wide by weakening and demoralizing our intelligence agencies, then next step will most likely be, a contrived “internal” national emergency, which may follow this scenario or a variation of it:
I believe the only way to achieve their goal, is to “create” the needed chaos supported by the anticipated hysteria through their pocket MSM.
Liberals will murder liberals to stick it to the Conservative movement, talk radio, “ditto heads”, Constitutionalists, writers, pundits and all whom CommuFascists consider their enemies.
The sacrificed liberals will be Black and Hispanic ACORNers, SEIUers and others from unions and Communist organizations. This, liberals think, is enough to indict the Conservative movement and “protect the people”.
They will make them martyrs, carry their pictures and demand “justice”, i.e., lynching of Conservatives by “independent” Eric Holder.
Once coordinated liberal on liberal murders happen in different parts of the country, mainly in Red States or Counties, we had better be ready to defend the country, our families and ourselves.
In such a scenario, you can expect the citizenry to help and support the US army in cleaning up the mess and establishing law and order under our Constitution.
One thing for sure, Marxists, Fascists and dictators of different stripes never, ever back down an inch, especially with the Media in their pockets. They have to be thoroughly defeated, their institutions dismantled and OUTLAWED, period.
Some may ask, what about “the freedoms of OUR American democracy?” The answer is that American CommuFascists don’t believe in democracy or freedom, therefore they aren’t entitled to any.
It’s about time to be generous to our enemies, foreign and domestic, by extending our earned and protected freedoms to them. They have to be prevented from using our freedoms against or denying it to us.
especially those two
That is their plan, this is what the communists did in Romania. You can still see the wonderful Soviet style architecture. By the way I think you mean martial law not Marshall Law.
Barf
Brian Wilson is Great!!! He used to sub for Mark Davis here in DFW. I loved hearing his tails from the logic free zone!!!
You may have it exactly right but all I know for sure is that however it plays out it is going to be horrific. CO
There has to be some other larger force involved here. For one, there is NO way that all these several thousand page bills, written in such great detail and crafty legal form, could have been drafted in just a few weeks. These had to be planned well in advance, perhaps before ObaMao was ever elected.
Obama just does not strike me as all that smart or able to piece this whole agenda together in such overwhelming detail, or with such sinister intent. (Not to say the man is not sinister, he is just not that intelligent to be the mastermind of all of this.)
Sack Jeffry Immelt!!!
“If the GOP had any REAL leadership...” Truth be told...anyone of those RINO’S would support and implement th eObama agenda if they thought they’d get away with it...
Well that’s good news. Bullet points to talk about with just about everyone.
Boot Megan in the Butt? That would take all day and a bag lunch.
Sham-Wow. You watchin’ me camera guy?!
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