Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/15/2010 9:05:53 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Even as the bruising health-care battle draws to a close, the Obama White House is pushing an ambitious agenda for the midterm election year. Next up: climate change.
This week marks the final phase of the battle over health-care reform, a fight that has occupied the White House since the earliest days of Barack Obama's presidency. Given the political capital expended on the legislation, the administration could be forgiven for patting itself on the back, talking up jobs creation—and otherwise trimming its sails as it readies for what promises to be a rough midterm campaign.
For a time, in the immediate aftermath of Scott Brown's shocking upset in the special Massachusetts Senate race, that's the road the Obama team seemed to be taking. But lately, the White House is getting ambitious again. Fired up by the health-care fight, the president is suddenly tackling all manner of thorny political challenges—each larger and messier than the last. From revamping No Child Left Behind to overhauling immigration and pressing ahead with financial regulatory reform, the administration is on the offensive—and swinging for the fences.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
and don’t think for a monute that once they see they can pass healthcare via all the tricks they are pulling that they will ram this down our throats also....
So much for the focus on JOBS!
Agreed, tats.
If the “progressives” successfully use the Slaughter Solution (successful for them, not us) on health care reform this week, then all bets are off.
Once they see they can jam anything down our throats without facing the limits set by that archaic old document, then the floodgates will open. They’ll start jamming us with everything — cap-n-tax, card check, food control, amnesty for illegals, involuntary national service, new gun laws, etc. In fact, why even bother with that House-Senate agreement thing?
I truly fear that things have gone too far for a civilized resolution to this mess. November is too far away. The progressives have already started their end game and the sun is starting to set.
I truly fear that things have gone too far for a civilized resolution to this mess. November is too far away. The progressives have already started their end game and the sun is starting to set.
i agree 100%
i don’t see a peaceful ending to any of this myself...have been saying it for years that this country was headed down the wrong path and we would become no better than other 3rd world nations with fighting in the streets....
And the willing Democrat Senators will march right behind him.
(For Obama’s aides, climate change offers a unique combination of the challenge of a global crisis with the economic opportunities for job growth, technological innovation, and boosting exports. The issue represents a sharp contrast with the inactivity of the Bush years, as well as a chance to transform several sectors of the U.S. and global economy.)
Thanks for explaining that the author is Liberal. That explains the unchallenged idiocy above.
In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
I thought Amnesty was next...
And the Assault Weapons Ban...
And Climate Change....
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