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Obama Sets Off On Scorched-Earth Rampage
Washington Times ^ | November 20, 2014 | Joseph Curl

Posted on 11/20/2014 7:31:42 AM PST by lbryce

“Some men just want to watch the world burn.” — Alfred talking about the Joker in “The Dark Knight” President Obama, fresh off a shellacking in the 2014 midterm elections — in which he made himself a centerpiece, much to the chagrin of embattled Democrats — is about to embark on a scorched-earth rampage that will change the face of America forever. Although the Harvard graduate and former professor often speaks of “teachable moments,” the president saw nothing worth learning in the outcome of the Nov. 4 elections, when voters gave Republicans their largest majority in the House since World War II and drummed the Democrats out of control of the Senate. More, he doesn’t care that poll after poll shows a growing disillusionment with his signature policy as president, Obamacare, which now holds a record low approval rating of 37 percent. And his plan to use executive authority to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens rates just about the same — just 38 percent of Americans approve.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: executiveamnesty; obama; obamaamnestyquotes; obamaquotes; scorchedearth
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To: IMR 4350

The term “Scorched Earth” was first manifested in the final days of World War II. As the Russians were forcing the Nazis to retreat pushing them further and further back into Germany,they made sure that the Russians could not use anything the Nazis abandoned in retreat, against them. And so enforced a scorched Earth policy where everything left behind was utterly, totally destroyed as not to give the Russians the slightest military advantage.Thus, Scorched Earth.


61 posted on 11/20/2014 9:09:55 AM PST by lbryce (Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Offspring of Satan and Medusa.)
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To: DaveA37

We’ll have to wait and see. The sooner, the better.


62 posted on 11/20/2014 9:42:31 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: HMS Surprise

Impeachment would also make him a martyr.

This is a hell of a mess.


63 posted on 11/20/2014 9:46:11 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: lbryce

64 posted on 11/20/2014 9:56:01 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: fatez; VRW Conspirator
All things considered, Obama is overplaying his hand.

Exactly and we should not be baited. Let him do his thing. Let the American people get real p!ssed. Then start the process of defunding it and taking it to the Supreme Court all the while reminding the media that this was unilateral action taken by the same president who said he didn't have the authority.

Overplaying his hand? start the process of defunding? I had to strongly disagree.

This action from Obama will cause 10's of millions of third world illiterates to start heading to our border.

This action by Obama will be fatal to our Republic -- the U.S. is going to be converted into third world sewer.

McConnell and Boehner and their staff fully support 100% Amnesty.

Sorry to say, but there will be absolutely NO meaningful blow back from Congress.

65 posted on 11/20/2014 9:57:04 AM PST by sand88 (We can never legislate our way back to Liberty)
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To: SMARTY
It’s a truly Kabuki administration…. Thanks Liberals!

The 10's of millions of third world anti-English illiterates that will continue to pour in are no Kabuki theater.

This action by Obama will be fatal to our Republic.

66 posted on 11/20/2014 10:01:46 AM PST by sand88 (We can never legislate our way back to Liberty)
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To: sand88

So what is your solution???


67 posted on 11/20/2014 10:04:59 AM PST by fatez (Ebola, Obama's solution for shovel ready jobs... Bring out your dead!!!)
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To: lbryce
Screw you America!...Ole!
68 posted on 11/20/2014 10:11:09 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: fatez
So what is your solution???

Congress and the States currently hold the legal power to stop Obama.

Congress and the States will do nothing to stop him.

We must face cold hard reality -- we are liking witnessing the fatal blow to our Republic.

There is currently No solution.

69 posted on 11/20/2014 10:12:50 AM PST by sand88 (We can never legislate our way back to Liberty)
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To: sand88

I hope you are wrong, and I hope that they follow some type of action that I am advocating, I suspect you may be right...


70 posted on 11/20/2014 10:15:04 AM PST by fatez (Ebola, Obama's solution for shovel ready jobs... Bring out your dead!!!)
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To: hondact200
Obama is just having a temper tantrum - cannot have his way so he is lashing out right and left.

He's mostly trying to be the open borders bringing the world home to you liberal professor again.

71 posted on 11/20/2014 10:22:01 AM PST by alrea
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To: onyx

BUMP THAT!!!


72 posted on 11/20/2014 10:24:13 AM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: fatez
I have little confidence in the Pubbies doing anything........

McConnell is in the bag.

73 posted on 11/20/2014 10:27:22 AM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: lbryce

Valhalla on the Potomac is ready to burn.


74 posted on 11/20/2014 10:47:12 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: caligatrux

Me too. Way back on the night of the 2008 election I just knew we were in big trouble, real danger with a usurper getting elected. I never imagined it would be this horrendous. The list of his offenses is too long to list,add to it his importing diseases and acting like beheadings in America are not worth a mention. I am sorry to have lived to see the destruction of my America.


75 posted on 11/20/2014 10:52:01 AM PST by TheConservativeParty
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To: caligatrux

I don’t know what wonderland ‘cloudmountain’ lives in, but I lost my business due to Obola and his policies.

Also, just try not paying your taxes....next month I will get a property tax bill of 7000 dollars. The nazis take our property if that mob tax is not paid.

You and I live in Realville. The gov screws the taxpayer 24-7. We know that.


76 posted on 11/20/2014 10:59:51 AM PST by TheConservativeParty
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To: lbryce

Take it from me, most people are clueless about anything Obama gets away with.

Up until the moment Obama’s Tanks are rolling through their Neighborhoods, they will still be bleating like Sheep.

We gave it a good shot, but Franklin knew how the Republic would end.


77 posted on 11/20/2014 11:03:03 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (11/04/14, the day people finally realized that their Dictator is just a Dick..)
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To: lbryce

With race riots cities burn, same thing, burn it all down.


78 posted on 11/20/2014 11:03:41 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Uncle Miltie

Great post.

Shared.


79 posted on 11/20/2014 11:08:26 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Ferguson: America's crash course in what 'community organizers' actually do.)
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To: caligatrux
We're all frogs in the pot, my friend -- maybe you haven't started to feel the heat yet, but plenty of our fellow citizens are already boiling.

If "plenty of our fellow citizens are already boiling" then I pity them. People in this country have a better chance of success through education, skills and service occupations than most countries on the planet in all of human history. A plumber or auto mechanic has a job anywhere in the U.S.A. or planet Earth.

Legally employed get all kinds of benefits if they have worked: unemployment, workman's compensation, social security, vacations, holidays and retirement. Self-employed just have to be VERY assiduous in their long-term saving.

I've seem many people screw themselves into a corner, then are SHOCKED to find themselves unable to get free. They do it through ALL kinds of bad ways: bad relationships, bad marriages, bad investments, all kinds of "bads."
They get bailed of trouble with government housing, food stamps, FREE medical care closest to them. What else can be done for them?

The illegals wouldn't be here UNLESS Americans hired them. Illegals wouldn't be here unless there was money on this side waiting for them. They will work for less, work longer hours, holidays, Sundays...whatever it takes.
People can't live the "American dream" unless they are will to work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work and then work some more. I worked fifty years.
NO hand-outs, just "hand-ups."

Legalizing millions of illegals is wrong, wrong, wrong and would not have been done by the GOP. Americans freely VOTED IN Obama TWICE so we have no one to blame but ourselves for our Pimp President and his party of Screw-the-Middle-Class.

Finally, he couldn't have/can't do all this damage alone. He HAS to have accomplices: Congress, state legislatures, country/city/local law makers--all kinds of accomplices.
He and his Screw-the-Middle-Class party could have even been VOTED OUT OF OFFICE in 2008. They could have been, but weren't.

Whose to blame? Folks have to look in the mirror once in a while. Don't you agree to some/any extent?

80 posted on 11/20/2014 11:14:32 AM PST by cloudmountain
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