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?"
Well then, America isn't worth saving if this is wholly true, is it?
I recognize the phenomenon, but am slightly more optimistic. Grab a couple of hundred random Americans, and there's a potential Todd Beamer in there somewhere.
What? You don’t have any ShamWows or Forarm Forklifts?
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I don’t even have a Salad Shooter!
Well it isn't like some of didn't warn those who fell prey to his well articulated lies and distortions.
But they can all rest well in the comfort that 0bama has inserted leaders of great integrity like Holder, Nepalitano, and is 30+ Government Czars (all unelected and without any connections to any legal checks & balances in our Government) to see to it that ALL of our rights are steadfastly maintained while all of his REMAKING of our Country is fast at work (TOTAL SARCASM)
Not even a Slap Chop?
The implosion is coming, though I think the main reason will be a lack of control and people in the adminstration going in their own directions with their own agendas - and it will be months not weeks.
I think the American people need to be reminded of how much $$$ is involved in Justice Dept/independent prosecutor investigations, so they can tell Obama that they don’t want 10’s of Millions of $$$ spent on this CIA/Cheney witchhunt.
I thought that at one time but I learned never to underestimate the stupidity of the American Public when Clinton won his second term
Am afraid the IPOD Zombies and those who blindly follow The One because he is black, will make our current situation difficult to defeat. Without Divine intervention and/or great sacrifice VERY soon from those who are willing to mix it up, things will not change quickly enough to get the USA out of this mess.
I wonder how long it would take for citizens all across the country to strongly refuse to put up with that?
“God will send the Lord Jesus Christ in the due time to destroy all His enemies and to “rule and reign over all the earth as Lord of Lords and King of Kings”.”
And then the world will be ruled right for the first time in its history.
Not by Barry Half-White.. but by globalists both democrat and republican..
Barry Half-White just croons what he is told to warble..
How do you PimP SLAP a Black American President?..
Answer: YOU DON'T..
New spending for this and that sure added up. And that brings me to number 6.
6. A coming middle class tax hike.
Inflation from overprinting currency IS AN IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT TAX on everyone rich poor middle lower.... everyone!
They don't need access to your bank account to ROB AND STEAL from you.
One need only look at the Obama administration as a gang of economic and societal arsonists. Having done so, one can see everything they say and do very clearly.
I hope it happens within days rather than weeks or months.
That’s well-put and accurate.
Just drag a couple of them out of their cars, arrest them and put them on National TV as a “traitor and criminal” and ruin them and their family’s lives.
Nazi Germany did that very thing without much trouble. It can and will happen here also. NEVER forget what history has taught us.
In this country, the Press is supposed to be a free press and it supposed to question. Once it stops doing that it becomes just what you said—a propaganda arm of the Government. When that happens, its customers should respond by “firing” it. I think you see that happening—but too slowly for my taste. That is why some members of the MSM are not angling for a bailout.
That is why some members of the MSM are NOW angling for a bailout.
— Fixed it.
Yes, but, when applied to ObozO there is truth enough.
Very good post
Truism of the day.
The greatest Socialist/Marxist tool is 'misdirection.'
the little Caesar is the colossal misdirection. While most focus on him as the instigator, the real power players behind the curtain are gleefully putting the final touches on what they have been working on for decades.
After the first election of Reagan in 1980 - and the defeat of Teddy's first and only run for president, in which he even lost his own party primary, the Socialist's realized they were not going to win straight out so they had nationwide organizing meetings and formulated a new strategy. (Teddy remained they standard barer.)
At the time, I was an investigative reporter, for a state wide paper,(a breed that has pretty much died out) and infiltrated a meeting (NO PRESS ALLOWED!) of the DSOC (Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee) in a church literally in the shadow of our state capital.
I won't go into the 'fun' of that meeting and pretending to be one of them, and nearly getting caught, but the gist was this:
The main speaker of the day was our State Senate Majority Leader - democrat, needless to say.
He opened the meeting with a greeting and, pulling a card out of his pocket, said:
"I, like you, am a card carrying Socialist."
The rest of the day was emphasizing that when Teddy lost, they lost their best shot in years. They recognized that they would not, in the foreseeable future, be strong enough as the Socialist Party - honestly named - to grab power. So the new strategy was to infiltrate and take over the Democrat Party.
They then outlined the strategy - from the smallest local positions on up...taking over local committees, getting elected to State conventions as delegates and on up to the WH.
The newspaper was put on every desk in the state senate/legislator and in DC.
The Sheeple were busy - sleeping.
Who can now argue that they have been totally successful?
Look at the little Caesar, yes, but don't forget he is but a Pretty, Polished Puppet who can read teleprompters - swinging his head like a spectator at a tennis match - and mesmerizing the audience. He has no substance on his own.
Except for a handful, there are no more Democrats in DC...or our state gov'ts.
live link next post.
http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html
When the citizens start pulling the cops out of their cars, that will signal that the worm has turned. There's a lot more of us than there are of them -- and some of them would rather be with Us than with Them.
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