Posted on 03/24/2011 9:37:33 PM PDT by tsowellfan
Applying the Obama Doctrine
The President gives us words to live by.
Appearing on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, and straining mightily beneath the weight of all the water she was carrying for the Obama Administration, Andrea Mitchell of NBC offered this definition of the “emerging” Obama Doctrine: “When you have a catastrophe you can avert, and the benefits outweigh the costs, and you have international or multilateral support, go for it. You cannot stand idly by.”
She’s trying to explain Obama’s policy on Libya, but why don’t we test the soundness of the Obama Doctrine by applying it to a domestic matter: the repeal of ObamaCare?
It’s a catastrophe we can avert. You might point out a lot of damage has already been done. The jobs Obama’s health care boondoggle have destroyed will not magically reappear if we repeal the legislation. I would respond: you ain’t seen nothing yet.
The benefits of repeal most definitely outweigh the costs. ObamaCare is dropping over 1.5 trillion dollars of debt onto an already insolvent government. At the same time, it is both raising the cost of health care, and destroying its quality.
We arguably have international support, as many British and Canadian citizens are quietly praying we don’t destroy the health care system they rely on, when their own moribund socialist medical deathtraps fail them. We certainly have bipartisan support. In most opinion polls, overwhelming majorities of Republicans and independents favor repeal, as do anywhere from a sizable minority to a bare majority of Democrat voters. Overall, the latest Rasmussen poll puts support for repeal at 53%. It has run into the mid-sixties in some recent polls. Support for repeal is clearly stronger than support for keeping it.
As Andrea Mitchell said, it would be wrong to “stand idly by” while this disastrous legislation ruins our economy, empties our Treasury, and ruins our health care system, when we can launch a kinetic repeal action. We should go for it.
I say while Obama’s too busy Wagging The Dog we start pushing our agendas through congress now... (while he’s distracted)
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I don’t think Obama has anything coherent enough to be called a “doctrine” beyond “wreck whatever I can.”
Obama doctrine: Do whatever necessary to get the most aggressive Muslims in power.
That's why Obama would try to weaken the Pakistani government before he would the Iranian government. He'll go after the Saudi government before he would Syria.
There's a pattern
That is not a doctrine that is a parable.
Obama Doctrine??
“When you have a catastrophe you can avert, and the benefits outweigh the costs, and you have international or multilateral support, go for it. You cannot stand idly by.”
As applied to Libya, it has nothing to do with the duties and responsibilities of the Office of the President of the US. If Obama wants to play in this arena he should resign and run for President of the UN.
At any rate, any benefits are swamped by the costs, a lesson that the US somehow cannot learn from experience.
The Western Hemisphere is now open for colonization of Islamic Nations and South America.
The political system of the Americas is going to be redone to be more like Europe.
The United States would not regard any interference in Western hemispheric affairs as a threat to its security.
The United States would engage in participation of European wars and Middle Eastern affairs and will muddle around in existing colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
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