Posted on 10/25/2011 6:01:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
President Obama couldn't have chosen a more fitting slogan than "We can't wait" to promote his latest legislative elixir for our ailing economy. What could be cleverer than to employ double meaning in aid of doublespeak?
CBS News reports that Obama will use the phrase to sell his jobs bill and to justify his plan to take unilateral executive action on the economy.
Obama has enlisted the phrase to argue that America can't wait on the private sector to generate economic growth. He can't wait on the people to get up to speed with his superior wisdom or for Congress to rubber-stamp his latest destructive scheme. He will not be denied; he will not be delayed; he will not wait.
So he "is going to begin a series of executive branch actions that will not require action from Congress -- or the assent of Republicans," including a "major overhaul" of the government's refinance program for federally guaranteed mortgages to assist homeowners who haven't been able to secure refinancing.
How many times do we have to go through this song and dance, in which the executive branch arbitrarily alters already-existing contracts? How many times will this policy have to fail before Obama quits trying it?
This is a perfect scam for Obama. Just as we watch the Occupy Wall Street protesters condemning the banks for actions forced on them by liberals, Obama is again forcing them into similar actions so that the protesters will have something to protest next year.
Audacious is no longer an adequate word to describe this president. He forced through his first stimulus through crisis-leveraged fear-mongering and then never really used but a fraction of that money for so-called stimulus purposes. Why would anyone still believe a thing he says?
Who is he to tell us "we can't wait" on the proper constitutional safeguards against such precipitous executive action? He is not America's king. The Framers deliberately placed safeguards in our system to prevent such capricious executive action.
Where does Obama get the authority to force banks to make loans on terms he prefers, irrespective of the sound banking practices that guide such decisions? The answer is that he doesn't believe he needs authority, only "noble" intentions.
Just like the liberals who crammed through their affordable housing policy, he believes that people ought to get a break. It doesn't matter that most of them won't be able to pay back these loans. What matters is that Obama wants to take money from people who he believes have too much and give it to those who he believes don't have enough. To him, that is the highest purpose of government. Call it "economic justice," because that's what he and his fellow radicals call it.
The concept of "We can't wait" is nonsensical on its face -- not that the absence of reason and common sense is any deterrent to such emotion-driven policies. He is implying that because we can't wait for the private sector to create jobs and he can't wait on Congress to pass his jobs-destroying jobs bill, he must order banks to make their loans less creditworthy. It's a classic non sequitur.
He's using the phrase as a ploy to deceive us into believing that his regulatory action would also help the economy when the only thing it would do is shift money around. This is no more about creating jobs than was his stimulus bill, but like the stimulus bill, it would be a lawless, unconstitutional redistribution of wealth.
It's true; Obama can't wait for Congress to sign on to his insane plans, because it won't, and he can't wait on the will of the people to embrace his patent statism, because they won't.
What we really can't wait on -- what America can no longer wait on -- is for this president to quit spending more money than we take in. We can no longer wait another 900 days on the Senate to produce a budget. We can no longer wait on structural reform to our entitlement programs. We can no longer wait for the Supreme Court to nullify Obamacare or for Congress to repeal it. We can no longer wait for Obama to quit behaving like an absolute monarch with no accountability.
But sadly, we have to wait on these things -- until 2012, when we can throw out of office those who refuse to obey the law by waiting to act until they have the constitutional authority to act.
Tagline
#We can’t wait for this democrat nightmare to be over.
FUBO bump
Step 1: Use insurmountable majority in congress to pass Porkulus
Step 2: Wait three years, and propose Porkulus Jr.
Step 3: Wait around 4 weeks to declare an emergency, ends justifying the means situation, and the need to circumvent our system of government.
Step 4: ??? Probably involves violence.
Can you say stalled Super Committee?
Supercommittee Struggles to Find Deal As Clock Ticks Down to Automatic Spending Cuts
Even reading the Iranian paper this morning they are watching for the next downgrade as we stay unresolved over how to handle our finances. Iran Daily Pg. 5
VERY related story:
And So It Ends For Argentina (Lessons for America)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2797533/posts
Next year Obama will be in VERY bad political shape - or he’ll be dictator. The latter is unlikely as he doesn’t exactly engender support from the Military.
Just got the almost daily Obama fundraising e-mail...this part is interesting:
“— And this is just one of the incremental changes to come. Next, the President will announce new steps to help young people manage their federal student loan debt while they look for a job and get on their feet.”
‘Help manage’, eh?
“You say you want a revolution... well you know”.
LLS
From Zero's point of view, the policy is not failing. Politicians have different definitions of success and failure from those used by normal people.
Does this proposal increase government power over private individuals and businesses? Is it likely to buy more votes than it loses? Is it supported or praised by media figures? If the answers to two or more are "Yes," then I believe it's a success, by Zero's standard.
LOL. Headline of the week.
The only power Obama, or any other Dictator, has over us is the power that WE give him.
WE can recall, demand his resignation, or just simply impeach his sorry ass.
The longer that we hesitate, the more power we give to him.
... Never, they're guilty too. Flush them all!!!
You need to get real. Don’t you realize that we only have the House. We can do nothing until we have both the super majority in the House and the Senate. So what are you going to do, sit on your ass and bitch or make sure we get the super majority back. Sometimes I really don’t know what to think
...OK, I over reacted to the thread. Agreed, getting both the super majority in the House and the Senate and BHO out of the WH should be our united focus. Thanks gim...
...Still FRiends???
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