Posted on 10/17/2008 2:32:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
So what if Obama is elected? After four years, Americans will realize they've been sold a bill of goods by the left-wing media, and vote him back out again. Then we can live happily ever after. Right?
Wrong. Four years is more than enough time to inflict permanent damage on this country, given the large majorities the moonbat messiah is likely to have in both houses of Congress. The Wall Street Journal warns that if Dems get BHO in the White House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, we will enter "a period of unchecked left-wing ascendancy."
Among the consequences:
Socialized medicine. This gargantuan entitlement would be extremely difficult to repeal, and would inevitably lead to low-quality, rationed healthcare in the short term, national bankruptcy in the long term.
Hostile business climate. Nancy Pelosi says the government has "harsh decisions" to make regarding assigning blame and doling out punishment for the financial panic. The ball and chain Sarbanes-Oxley put on American business will feel like a sweatband compared to the shackles coming next. The first victims will be the financial, energy, telecom, biotech, and pharmaceutical industries. Needless to say, this will not shorten the economic downturn. Fortunately for Democrats, the worse the economy, the more cover they have to inflict socialism, making it worst still. This vicious spiral will not stop until communist America finds itself rooting through Dumpsters for food.
Union supremacy. Unions are a cancer that have all but killed the American auto industry. Dems want to do away with secret ballot elections so that intimidation tactics can be used to make them vastly more powerful. The Orwellian "Employee Free Choice Act" — supported by Obama — entails forcing businesses to recognize a union even where the majority of workers don't want to unionize.
Taxes. Obviously an economic slowdown is not a good time to raise taxes. Yet Obama has made it clear he will jack taxes through the ceiling. Supposedly this will only affect "the rich." Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of economics knows that it will hurt us all by crippling the economy.
Ecolunacy. Cap and trade schemes based on the fictional global warming crisis would make a recession permanent by inflicting punitive taxation on all economically productive activity. I hope the polar bears appreciate it.
Voting rights. Election-day voter registration is already leading to chaos in Ohio. This would likely go national, as anything that facilitates voter fraud helps Democrats, whose appeal is to moral degenerates who don't feel they should have to earn anything, including election victories. Felons may get the right to vote nationwide — another big boon to Democrats, for obvious reasons.
Freedom of speech. Some new form of the "Fairness Doctrine" would be employed to shut up Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and anyone else who might use the airwaves to rally resistance against socialism. Next the Left would target the Internet, under the guise of "net neutrality." But don't worry, Keith Olbermann will still to be around to keep you informed.
Special interests. It will be Christmas every day for teachers unions and trial lawyers. There are limits to how much damage termites can do to a structure before it is no longer sound.
Terrorism. Look for O.J. Simpson–style civil courts for every last foreign terrorist who comes into custody. Hamas has its reasons for endorsing Obama.
As the WSJ concludes:
In both 1933 and 1965, liberal majorities imposed vast expansions of government that have never been repealed, and the current financial panic may give today's left another pretext to return to those heydays of welfare-state liberalism. Americans voting for "change" should know they may get far more than they ever imagined. If the media gets its way next month, moonbattery may corrode America past the point of no return.
He’ll have two years until the mid term elections. We’ll see.
Terrorism. Look for O.J. Simpson–style civil courts for every last foreign terrorist who comes into custody.
the courts are after the fact. obama will probably let them in and go easy on the wiretaps
I think most conservatives are wising up on this one. They know we can either still be the USA with McCain or be USSA with Obama.
mid term can’t change the executive branch. that’s where the worst damage will take place
exactly
Also remember all the illegals who will now gain the right to vote for Dems and big government on a permanent basis.
Of the MOST consequence will be at least one, quite likely 2, Supreme Court appointments. Ginsberg is practically on life-support waiting for the next election as it is. If Obama gets to nominate justices with a majority Senate, the laws in this country will be worthless. And you know they’ll pick someone who’s barely out of diapers so they’ll be on the court for many many years.
The New American Socialist Party is born.
The NAMZI Party will bring a new order to the Fatherland.
Until then.....lock and load. Gangs will run rampant and he will defend them.
Hoping for another 1994 in 2010 is delusional at best. We may win back a few house and senate seats. Whoopee. Nov 4th is a must-win. Period.
On the other hand, just imagine all of the RINOS, Hollyweirdoes and freeloaders we can get rid of when they leave to country to move to Canada or France if McCain/Palin wins.
Do you really think that McCain will resist, especially on issues like bailouts, amnesties, and climate change...you know, the issues on which he agrees with the Democrats? And, on other issues, McCain has not only touted his "bipartisan" record of bending over to please the Democrats but even outright shown a willingness to bend over even more (appointing Al Gore to his Cabinet, praising Cuomo and Hillary, praising Obama).
Voting for McCain is only buying time, and not that much, I'm afraid. And the U.S. will still take "permanent" damage that is permanent to the extent that the electorate is unwilling to forcibly repeal it...and reject the anti-American policies that the establishment in both major political parties is trying to impose on them.
I own a snow plow.
My neighbbor has a driveway full of snow.
He offers me money to plow it out.
Can I do it for him, for cash, without government involvement?
Do I need a license, tax forms, some sort of registration?
Explain why you believe you live in a free country. This is an essay question, without a correct answer.
If Obama makes the headway in destruction of our government that he has with his ACORN fraud, lawsuits, and truth squads in the last month, I wouldn’t count on a 2 party system in 2 years. With control of the full Congress and no ability to filibuster, it could take only months to destroy the Constitution and have a communist rule here.
We aren’t talking about typical, greedy politicians here— most of these people are long time members of the communist party and have waited 30 or 40 years for this. Ayers will looked like a benevolent guy compared to what we will see.
BE VERY AFRAID if Obama wins!
McCain and his buddies are RINOs. How does exalting them to the highest office in the land..."get rid of" them?
Governor Palin is a RINO? Clue: That’s what this IS ALL ABOUT!
On my way in a few minutes to buy a gun.
I’m afraid after 2 years there will be no conservatives left to run for office. What will happen is this country will be destroyed and then it’s all over with. I hope I’m pleasantly surprised on election day.
On the other hand, I’ll still need that gun. If he wins or loses there will be riots.
‘Can I do it for him, for cash, ‘
Yes, but the funds are taxable. It is income
If you do it for others and are in the business, you must comply with local laws regarding the licensing of businesses.
If you don’t include the funds in reported income or get the permits, you are operatingin the underground economy
Thanks RUSH and ANN.
I hope somebody has some sort of a backup plan for this one. My own estimate is that an Oinkbama presidency would not last four years and would end in less than that under unusual and/or extraordinary circumstances. It may really be time someone started talking about rational ways to split the country up without a second civil war.
I haven't completely made up my mind about her yet. Please pardon my excessive skepticism due to the infestation of RINOs and Rat enablers present within the Republican Pary.
Clue: That’s what this IS ALL ABOUT!
Palin will have to fight an uphill battle once McCain gets in and mucks things up with amnesty, bailouts, and carbon taxes...a milder (but still deadly) form of what the Democrats have in store for us.
Big Hint: all those amnestied illegals are probably not going to vote for a Republican, much less a conservative.
Believe me, I pay my taxes. Not a penny of income is excluded. Never.
bttt
More than likely, would be the better way to put it. The leftist radicals in Washington will make free elections a thing of the past by institutionalizing fraud. ACORN will supervise all elections. They will effectively destroy political free speech by using the fairness doctrine and hate speech laws to silence political enemies. If Obama wins and Democrats get a super majority, they will move fast to bring this country to its knees. No one will be able to stop them.
This piece sounds hyperbolic in the way it’s written, and yet none of it is. This is getting really scary.
That is my take, as well. People keep saying, we’ll fix it after four years, my reply is—”We may not HAVE another chance to vote...so forget about four years.”
The ignorance, or just plain laziness in wanting to discover the truth, is going to destroy the nation.
Guess I’m wrapping everything in tin-foil these days.
Stevens (born 1920) and Ginsburg (born 1933) are the oldest—if Obama gets to replace them, the balance doesn’t change, but the liberal hold on those seats is extended for 20-30 years at least. The next oldest are Scalia and Kennedy, both born in 1936, followed by Breyer (1938) and Souter (1939). Scalia has to stay healthy. Kennedy is a “moderate” but better than anyone Obama would pick to replace him.
Well according to the LeftMedia, if you do it without a government license, then you're not really a plow guy. That's the left's "Joe the Plumber" standard for taking up a given occupation.
It takes a majority in the US house, the president, and 55-60 in the senate to pass something.
We will not have that in the near future. It is a lot easier to stop something than change it.
Oh, permits - I negected to address that.
See, to get a “permit”, what do you need to do? Is it worth your neighbor’s $20?
Or should you just say the heck with this, the barriers to doing business in this country make it not worth it?
For instance, to make that $20, you need commercial tags, commercial insurance, and a commercial driver’s license.
You see? A soviet socialist republick, under any other name... still smells like a gulag.
We will not have that in the near future. It is a lot easier to stop something than change it."
If Senator Obama wins the presidency he will almost certainly have a majority of democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives (as it is now), and a 60 seat majority (filibuster proof) in the U.S. Senate. That means that the democrats would be able to pass just about ANYTHING their little hearts desire and "president" Obama would sign it into law. You don't see the danger in that?!
I am not a plow guy. I own two of them, and I let my kids borrow them.
Try to imagine such a person getting his hands on the Executive Order. Try to even imagine the un-holy over reach that will occur in the first 2 or 4 weeks of his presidency. An Obama presidency will fail spectacularly out of the gate, he'll scare even a few dems witless. He'll make Carter's the SECOND worst presidency in history....and he'll do it in WAAAAAAYYYYY less than 4 years.
Sadly, you are probably true, and we have horrible options this year. If McCain wins, the feeling around here will go from ebullient, unrestrained glee to shocked disgust very soon, IMHO, as he starts to announce his cabinet full of mods, libs, Dems (and maybe a few token conservatives) in December and January. All pressure known to man will have to be put on that guy from Conservative Quarters if he is sworn in. You can count on me. With a Democrat Congress it will be really uphill, and then, on the other hand, with Obama and Democrat Congress, well, might as well consider Easter Island, the Maldives or the Galapagos.
I didn’t realize it was you. Note also I stipulated that if you do it for others you are in business.
As a practical reality it doesn’t really matter to toe the legal line umless it keeps you awake at night. There are multitudes who give the law the finger and ply a special skill underground.
I once worked for a physician who was a good customer. He wouldn’t pay his bill. I called him and he said he was sorry, I should just drop by his office and ask Sarah his receptionist for the money. I did just that and she dug around in a cigar box and paid about half the bill. It was all that was in the box.
I called him and asked why she didn’t write me a check and pay it all..... The money in the box was from cash paying patients and I came around late in the day.
True story
America will come to her senses. And after we hold The White House, we’ll plan the next Reagan Revolution.
So very many of us are ready. :)
Although I disagree with President Bush on many issues, and John McCain on a few, I THANK GOD that President Bush made the appointments to the SCOTUS that he did.
We dodged a bullet for a little while, there. :)
That is about how it goes in the plow business...I have only had one custumer not pay. A lawyer. Broke me leg salting his lot, but the problems involved with suing a lawyer...
That was the day he didn’t pay me for.
BTW, he is no longer on our plow list. I hope the a-hole gets his tail sued off, when the snow comes this winter.
Don’t forget the Supreme Court, Justices Stevens and Ginsberg are no spring chickens as are most of the others. Just remember, we won the Heller (DC Gun ban case) by ONE vote, what if BO appoints 3 or 4 Justices, we will be so boned. (as they say on “Futurerama.”)
Too many people assume that once stalinists take power we will continue to have meaningful elections. Stalinists don’t do elections. If they do,they are fixed.
I keep hearing the old “Doors” song, “blood in the streets.....”
Yes, once we get 20 million “new citizens” from south of the border, no Republican will ever be elected President ever again.
He "will" have two years? We "will" see. 19 days to go until the election and you've given it to Obama?
Anyway, as the article points out it may be too late even by the mid term elections, IF Obama is elected.
Read the article....
From Jimmy Carter came Reagan
Please, lets not get so hysterical!
(And I think McCain’s going to pull it off - thanks to Palin & Joe the Plummer)
If BHO wins, look for all out civil war when he tries to take away the rights of the common people. I know I’ll be among the protesters, federal employee or not.
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