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.
Make no mistake, if Obama wins this case in the SCOTUS, the country is officially lost and the meaning of the English language as it pertains to laws written in this country is utterly subjectivized as to have no meaning other than what those with the right power at the right time chooses it to communicate.
Yeah, I made up that word.
Stating the obvious, ISIS and other terrorist Islamics do not exist in Zer0’s opinion.
bttt
First in with “it’s all part of the plan”, because it is.
OTOH in our once free republic, nine lawyers in secular black vestments make religious decisions. WTF? Where is the Left's supposed separation of church and state? Never mind.
Voting alone cannot possibly cure the ills of our republic.
“Mr. Obama is steeped in a hard-left ideology...”
...and many in the electorate love it and will vote for it forever, in increasing numbers, until the end of time. (Not to mention recent “refugees” placed in selected election districts and Minnie and Mickey Mouse.)
IMHO
Liberals’ actions have assured that the only cure for the ills they have created will be fire and blood. Our fire, their blood.
yep
Um, Ken. There is nothing simple about Obama’s
incompetence.
If we servive this walking disaster it will be by
the grace of divine Providence and a few good men
and women.
if there is no law, then there is no law
one can not break a law that isn’t
Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have greater consequences.
“Mr. Obama is steeped in a hard-left ideology...”
...and many in the electorate love it and will vote for it forever, in increasing numbers, until the end of time. (Not to mention recent “refugees” placed in selected election districts and Minnie and Mickey Mouse.)
I think Hillary has concluded a hard-left ideology is what will win the election for her in 2016, as America shifts inexorably leftward.
And she’s most likely right.
I agree with most of this except for the “entitlement” of Social Security. I have worked continually since 1967 and have paid into SS ever since then.
I don’t feel that SS is an entitlement, it’s something that I have paid for already with my input and the interest it has earned since 1967.
If I were a military strategist, I would prepare against an attack on our country soon after the next election. I would imagine that our adversaries’ strategists are surmising that the U.S. cannot possibly get any worse/weaker than after 8 years of the BO administration at the helm. Our country’s defenses would still be close to the way BO left them at the time. If there were a good time to attack, it’s not going to get any better in the years following BO’s exit.
I suspect that this is the same sort of calculus that went into the timing of 9/11 after 8 years of Clinton emasculating the U.S. military. That is, we were only going to strengthen our economic, military, and foreign policy after its nadir in 2000.
So, much like Soldiers standing watch at dawn, I would be prepared again in 2017.
I’m not asking for a preemptive strike or anything, just a heightened state of attention and awareness. Why not be ready? How do you think the Chinese or the Russians see the coming transition? Wouldn’t an attack DURING the transition be even more devastating? The next chance to hit us at this weak point might be years away, or never again.
Stealing elections looks petty compared to the other crimes he has committed against the American people...
It's not that they "lack the basic instincts and judgement", it's that they are intent on seeing this country destroyed, turned into a fourth-world hell-hole, with most of us dead and the rest in chains.
If The Won were merely “incompetent”, he would occasionally make a decision that benefits this country, if only by accident.
He never makes a decision that benefits this country.
Therefore, he’s not “incompetent”, he’s malignantly evil to the very marrow of his bones.
For sure, but those little 3% here and 4% there is what gave us the halfrican mess plus of course McCrazy.
Ask a feminist if it bothers her that Bork Obunga has NEVER condemned the Muzzies for their Sharia Law???
What is wrong with Obunga that he cannot condemn Sharia Law publicly? The answer is he doesn’t want to offend his Muzzie chums because he’s a coward and American Feminazis are complicit.
Instead, the whiny American Feminazis continue to play the blame game against the “evil American White Male” - when they should really be focused on the real modern sexists (7th century Muslim ideology that still exists today).
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