Posted on 06/23/2015 4:44:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's Note: Tony Perkins, President Of The Family Research Council, co-athored this column.
Like two speeding trains heading toward the same collapsed bridge, the dangers and failures of Barack Obama’s foreign, economic, and social policies are heading rapidly toward implosion. Our vital security interests, our economic well-being, our religious liberties, and the very fabric of American family life are all at grave risk of becoming casualties of the extreme ideological agenda and simple incompetence of the current Administration.
First, with respect to foreign policy: Watching the spread of ISIS throughout the Middle East is like watching the growth of a cancer. Yet President Obama says he still has no fully-formed strategy with which to deal with it.
Instead, his focus has been on Iran, to which end he is encouraging Senate approval of a plan that would give Iran the continued capacity to produce nuclear weapons in coming years.
The irony is that Iran is the epicenter of Islamic terrorism. Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, Shiite jihadism, the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,” and other violent Muslim extremist groups all find a base of support in Tehran. The idea that the United States would endorse a weak agreement with a power as dangerous as this is chilling.
Congress must demand a non-nuclear Iran because a nuclear Iran is an existential threat to Israel and other U.S. allies in the Middle East. Ultimately, an Iran with nuclear weapons is a threat to America, as well: Technology is such that a small nuclear device, made in Iran and distributed through its terror network, could reach our shores in suitcase.
Compounding this is that there is NO evidence the Iranian regime has made a strategic decision to give up the pursuit of nuclear weapons. And the regime's track record on transparency is no better than the Obama Administration’s. Past experience makes clear Iran cannot be trusted.
Additionally, Iran is emblematic of multiple failures in Mr. Obama’s foreign policy, from Vladimir Putin’s recent announcement that Russia will begin building more nuclear weapons to China’s resurgence. In the words of respected foreign policy expert Leslie Gelb, “the Obama team lacks the basic instincts and judgment necessary to conduct U.S. national security policy in the next two years.”
On the domestic front, things are no better. With respect the President’s most prized economic policy achievement, the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), millions of Americans have found it anything but affordable with their premiums rising an average of ten percent.
Now, Obamacare is headed for a constitutional collision. The Supreme Court is expected to rule against this administration in King v. Burwell. If the administration loses, and the subsidies are ruled unconstitutional, this will make Obamacare financially unobtainable for millions of hard-pressed Americans. According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, premiums in the 34 states currently receiving federal Obamacare subsidies would see premiums rise by, minimally, 132 percent (Alaska) to as high as 650 percent (Mississippi).
The disruption caused by Obamacare’s likely collapse will only augment the President’s failure to address the impending collapse of our “entitlement” system of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The nation’s fiscal forecast, already ominously overcast, will become outright stormy if action is not taken, the sooner the better, to remedy our inescapable economic problems.
Then there’s the President’s apparently highest social policy goal, nationwide legalization of marriage between two same-gendered partners. If the Court endorses the Obama agenda redefining marriage the social and religious fallout will be immense. The disintegration of the intact biological family will accelerate and the religious liberties of tens of millions of Americans will be placed at risk. As his Solicitor General admitted during April’s same-sex “marriage” hearing before the Court, the tax exempt status of churches and religious colleges will be placed at risk if they don’t accommodate themselves to a newly-invented constitutional “right” for same-sex partners legally to marry.
Mr. Obama is steeped in a hard-Left ideology so rigid that he seems immune to the political realities careening toward a very troubling collision that will affect all aspects of American life, now and in the years to come.
You are very right to be concerned!
FDR’s international weakness and America malaise after so many years of declining morale certainly led to Pearl Harbor. Still, anyone who attacks post nobama better max it out, otherwise America has a habit of waking up really pissed off.
Traitor Roberts is the Alice in Wonderland Master of the Words. They mean no more nor no less than he rulz. It’s over.
SS is a Ponzi Scheme. Obvious to a 20 yr old in 1970.
SS deductions from your salary are not voluntary...
Voting for GOPee representatives who continue the fraud ARE voluntary.
When has there been a vote to repeal SS????
Send a sternly worded letter to Boner and Ditch....
W proposed going to the Galveston project, which would’ve been OUTSTANDING!!!!
As for now, I just retired and don’t wish to see the SS that I paid into for 50 years gone.
I am so screwed.
I think the original time set for the attack on the US was in May 12, 2001 , exactly 7 months after the bombing of the USS Cole and before many of Bush’s appointees had been confirmed by congress due to the delayed transition of the Gore War in Floriduh. But the pilots were not yet up to snuff so it was delayed.
Since we are 19 trillion in debt it was spent years ago.
Yes, the exact dollars that I put in were, but when you draw money from the bank, you don’t get the exact dollar you deposited.
If money had not been taken from me for the last 50 years, I would agree with doing away with SS, but I, like everyone who ever worked for a living has paid into it and expect a return for their payments.
You simply misunderstand the situation here. The facts are that newly discovered penumbras recently revealed by very extensive lucubration have illuminated the elucidation of the meaning of gender manifestation in modern day populations. Because of this we now understand that previous methodologies for the purpose of establishing categories such as male and female are no longer valid or of use in determining the propriety of matrimonial proceedings involving two or more biological entities or even in instances involving other species such as horses, mules etc or even non-biological constructs such as automobiles or toaster ovens.
Please allow me to suggest this video clip featuring the individual who is most preponderous in vacillating the variance between the supposed ultratraditional meanings of certain phrases carried over from the octagenarian area forward into the undercurrent age in which we have lost ourselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAguP-zY2AA
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