Posted on 10/27/2014 3:50:55 PM PDT by betty boop
He’s the Staller in Chief — President Obama has punted almost every hot-button issue past the key midterm elections on Nov. 4.
Obama has postponed decisions on a raft of contentious issues related to ObamaCare, Gitmo, immigration and his Cabinet.
This is partly to protect Democratic candidates and hold onto the Senate. But it’s more than that. Obama plans a number of radical moves later this year when the administration believes the media, and the public, are paying less attention.
This includes a forced transformation of our neighborhoods, a huge influx of immigrants and billions of dollars in additional taxes.
Will midterm voters really be fooled? Probably not. Republicans are expected to hold both the Senate and the House starting in the next term. But whether anyone can stop the executive actions Obama quietly plans is another matter.
In fact, the president is hoping you don’t even notice.
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Yap, thanks. Many people are so emotional because the most conservative republican they were backing lost to the less conservative republican in a primary, they abstain in the general.
They do not realize they are creating an incumbent democrat. As you said, that democrat will never push anything resembling conservative agenda. Tthe RINO fears of being primaried in the next election. You can see that happens often. The RINO starts voting more conservative.
Oh, FRiend, I must disagree, even if just barely. Our Republican FRiends have principles even if they have to surrender their principles whenever they propose to support the remainder of those who would call themselves “Republican.”
But of that balance, we must confess the majority of the Party, is to be found principles.
Some few at least.
They seek to achieve power . . . on principle. They are willing to share power with Liberals . . . but not Conservatives (or Jeffersonian republicans, like me) . . . on principle. They desire the privilege of having a share of the spending of Federal money and every now and again would like having the primary responsibility for directing how the money is to be spent . . . on principle. As a result, from time to time they expect to have the Committee Chairmanships and to have their Party in charge of the White House . . . on principle.
And, most importantly, they do not want the embarrassment of being associated, in any fashion, with Conservatives . . . on principle.
Addendum:
By “Conservative” I mean additionally TEA Party.
We definitely agree on that point, dear brother in Christ!
On the other hand, your basic presupposition seems to be that Romney would have been a "bad executive" — which is something his professional biography would tend to refute. Plus no POTUS can "rule alone"; e.g., by executive orders. A power-hungry narcissist like Obama might not agree with that statement; but Romney is neither power hungry nor narcissist. Plus I strongly doubt he would have taken a wrecking ball to the Constitution....
Hello!!! With a big shout-out to a fellow Christian Realist!!!
Being female, I can't directly relate to this experience.
However, I can well imagine it. :^)
Thank you for making me laugh (and cry)!
But it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. I'm not sure she's even warming up yet.
FWIW, the first thing that needs doing is the retirement of Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader. He is 0Bama's chief enabler and codependent. That will mean electing a Senate majority this coming Tuesday. Enuf said.
That could buy conservatives some time — to get the GOP Party Establishment back in ORDER.
The Party is suicidal to think it can prosper by spitting on its natural (and historical) base. The "official" Party needs to divest itself of all relations with special-interest groups, no matter how deep their pockets. It needs to start listening to the People again and can begin doing that by simply listening to what the Tea Party is saying (they've already done the "homework"). It can articulate an inspiring message to the American Middle Class that it will defend their interests. And that's just for starters.
In short, I have not lost HOPE.
Methinks neither should you, dear brother in Christ.
Actually, it was not my basic presupposition that Romney would have been a bad executive. My basic presupposition is that a legislative race should be treated differently in terms of strategy than an executive race.
A legislature is already a mix, so one hopes to affect the mixology with one’s vote.
An executive is an independent, decision making individual who makes up an entire branch of government, and with our government split into parties, the decisions of an executive are not easily reversed. 2/3rds of both houses of Congress to override a veto is, except in rare instances, insurmountable barrier.
Evil or perversion or abomination found in one’s candidate must make one reject that candidate or such a candidate will be repeatedly presented.
That was the problem with Romney. There was abomination in his positions.
If you know me, you know I haven’t lost hope.
But my hope isn’t in these jaybirds. :)
I hear what you are saying. You know I agree with you almost right down the line point by point. Sometimes the stuff you write just rings like a bell.
I’m not ready to lay down by a long shot. But I have to say, my outlook has shifted quite a bit over the last few years for a number of reasons. I’m looking up in much more immediate terms than at any time in my life. I’ve rather lost interest in what these people say and do (in many cases I simply don’t believe them)... I am focused rather on getting my life and my extended family in order. Politics is no longer as interesting as it once was.
For me politics was the visible trace of an underlying invisible spiritual and moral contest, thats what gave it its drama, and of course it still is, it always is. But whereas the party once knew that, they have in recent years tried to divorce themselves from that knowledge, cut themselves off from the only thing that gives politics meaning, the only thing that made them relevant at all. They have sawed off the limb they hang from.
The Democrats never had that transcendental connection, they were always about populism and power politics. But the GOP was once something more than that. Remember the birth of the GOP; Christians founded it, with very little support from anyone, and in a decade slavery ceased to exist.
This GOP is embarrassed of its Christians, and is headed for the shelf of irrelevancies and historical oddities. They would rather peddle populism at a discount; there isn’t much drama in that.
I’ll no doubt vote for whoever the GOP sends up, because heaven knows he won’t be as awful as the guy the other side sends up. But if he agrees with them on everything that matters, but just wants to implement it at a discount, we haven’t won anything. So don’t look to these guys for our salvation, they don’t have it in them.
I know you know that. I know your eyes are turned upward, and you like me are just trying to be where you are supposed to be and do what you are supposed to do while God does what he does. The only thing that has changed is that while I’ve always known this, I feel it as if in my very flesh.
Its funny. Sometimes when I write, I go back and ask myself, do you really believe what you just said? And all I’m sure of is, thats what came out the tip of my pen. I guess I must, more or less. :)
Like it or not, God has seen to my birth in a time and place in which elections are held. Since God determines the rise and fall of kings and kingdoms, then it’s always seemed to me that He has intended for His people to be involved in government given the type of system He has put us in. As those who are to heed every law and ordinance of man and to have respect for civil authorities (with the exception of those who would fight against God), one of those laws within this system is voting. Heeding that law compels me to vote. To do that in a Godly way requires some preparation on my part.
anybody know if they are waiting for Wednesday to let Bergdahl off free?
I agree with what you wrote. And I do the same. I think what I wrote was a bit of a non sequitur, maybe a bit off-thread. Because I agree with you.
This guy despises being President. He is assured the life of a king after leaving office.
I simply do not understand why anyone thinks he wants to be a dictator. It doesn’t make an ounce of sense.
Do I think he wants to do a bunch of crap? Sure. But I never understood the martial law/president for life meme.
INTERLUDE in thought.... https://www.dropbox.com/s/u01q1phsaesybsl/DLW.avi?dl=0
Amnesty by Executive order, Bergdahl, Obamacare premium increases, Iran capitulation on nuclear issues, and who knows what will all surface soon after the election.
ah yes I foot a big one............Iran
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Yes it is - Even at the door.
I am hopeful the country has woken up. Our better days are coming.
Hope is terrifically important - But it does nothing to counter the reality on the ground. What we are now will increase exponentially, and is very hard to turn aside. Hope all you like, but be ready for what will surely happen when all hope fails.
Yes, I agree I could also not vote for someone of immoral character.
Then that should plainly be the end of it.
In this cycle, I have only one such on my list...the nominee in MS. Who are on your list?
I am not a list-maker. I also have no control beyond my own area. What I am preaching is that one needs to have men of character, or all is lost. That works everywhere, and folks on the ground at any particular location can make that judgement better than I.
I brought up Romney as a quintessential example - There is not a whit of principle in the man. And no, legislature is no different at all.
If we can’t in Ohio or Montana give direct aid to Cruz, then we’ve got to give him some kind of aid. So, we fail at the primary. What’s the next best step to help Cruz get some good things done?
Certainly that would not be to vote men of questionable mettle into his party. No matter what, your vote is your endorsement. You get more of what you vote for. If you vote liberals into the Republican party, you empower the liberals, not the Republicans. Soon enough you will be where we are now, with very little difference between the two.
LOL!
IF such could be called principle things, then you are surely right! But even were I to concede such things to be principled things, then I would still be faced with the condition wherein I find those principles to be unlike my own, and thereby, not something I would care to endorse.
ROTFLMAO!
Thx for your reply.
But, see you haven't helped. You had no proposal to get help to Cruz.
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