Thursday, June 25, 2009
OK…here’s the SITREP….
$800 billion in stimulus....all of which is deficit spending.
A federal budget that has spends $1.7 trillion more than it receives in taxes.
A government takeover of the largest US automaker, and a strong attempt to take over Chrysler as well.
The largest federal regulatory expansion for the tobacco industry....ever.
The attempt to ramrod federal-sponsored health care down the throats of an America that is shaking it’s head ‘No’.
The continuing push for ‘cap and trade’ taxes on energy.
Weak and wavering foreign policy, including the coddling of dictators and the cooling of relations with Israel and NATO nations.
All since the third week in January...of this year, nonetheless.
What is it all about?
I think that we can make a couple observations...not any high-and-mighty political nuggets of rich thought, but a few simple thoughts:
1. Obama is a statist, as Mark Levin and most of the conservative punditry claim. He backs autocratic states over democratic ones. He increases the size, scope, and influence (that’s important) of the central government. His first impulse where Iran was concerned was not to show support for the people that were opposing the mullahs.....that might ruin what he believes to be a chance to develop a political relationship with them. He respects them more, sad to say, then the democratic movement that burst over the dam in Iran. It was only after the inherent American support of those fighting for their own liberty against tyranny was displayed in polling data and in the words of both Republicans and Democrats in Washington that Obama changed his tune.
2. Obama doesn’t care about anything except making himself politically powerful. “I won” and “I’m the President” stick out in my mind, but this is a guy that cut his eye teeth in the bumper-car world of Chicago politics, and it’s all about getting ahead and on top of the other guy. Ask Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton about that. He’s willing to bully the press, his opponents, talk show hosts, and anyone that might stand in the way of his political goals. He will vilify anyone that disagrees with him on his agenda items.
3. Obama knows that his agenda is not accepted by the majority of American people, and doesn’t care. From nationalizing health care to cap and trade to not drilling for oil in the United States to the obscene deficits he’s proposing, there are solid pluralities and majorities that do not want his agenda to go through. However, he has like minds in Nancy Pelosi (and, to a lesser extent, Harry Reid) that have drank from the red Kool-Aid, and they will happily go against the people in the nation to forward their socialistic impulses.
4. Obama believes he is the right man to repair America. He believes, in line with his actions, that America has done wrong, has been racist, has oppressed the Third World and the Arab/Muslim nations, and has wrongly established an evil, polluting, economic and military hegemony over the world. He is cutting the defense budget, pulling forces away from the War on Terror, ending next-generation programs (missile defense and the F-22) and forcing (yes, forcing) America to pay for what he believes she should, these higher taxes serving also to level out the world economic playing field. He said it in his press conference about health care.....he said that making the government health care and the private health care groups follow the government-created rules would make the playing field level. In his eyes, that is just.
5. Obama is a hypocrite. Read this:
”Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it’s not provided by insurance.
Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he’s proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.
The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.”
The BEST care isn’t what we are being offered, but he still gets the option of ‘getting’ the very best. A little like Animal Farm, isn’t it? He orders the largest expansion of government oversight for tobacco, and smokes. He pushes cap and trade, but flies his wife and himself to New York...on our dime....for a date. And WHY does he flaunt this?
6. Obama wants only the allegiance of the political elites. His goal is to use his speaking ability and the ability of the political elites to bring those groups who can be convinced they are ‘disenfranchised’ to the voting booth, or to your door, pushing his agenda. ACORN is a group founded by political elites to forward a progressive, socialistic political agenda. ANSWER is a group founded by political elites to forward a progressive agenda. Who is George Soros? Who are the people Obama has brought into the Washington universe? What about Oprah? Isn’t she a political elite? Obama attracts, then uses these people to forward his agenda. Watch for this where his health care supporters come from. And the climate change supporters.
If you all have more points, or things I missed, let me know.