Posted on 08/30/2009 4:31:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Never has an administration who had more firepower at their disposal, been set to so totally fail in the next six to eight weeks. It is nearly a foregone conclusion. It is nearly unavoidable. And it defies all logic given the sizable majority the administration has in both houses of Congress.
Since I was the first pundit to predict Obama's presidency (Dec 2006) it behooves me to tell you the course I believe the next few weeks will take and effectively halt the radical transformation that the left appeared unstoppable with only months ago.
1. Health Care's long and painful death.
Barring the existing possibility that the Democrats cram a reform bill down the throats of actively protesting Americans through an ultra-partisan process that would shut out conservatives and Republicans from even being allowed to contribute to the discussion, health care reform is dead. It actually died a good while back when the President decided to pivot and create a new issue that no one had been discussing--health insurance reform. The American people will want to know why we should spend $4 billion to cover everyone in America "efficiently," when we already do so with inefficiencies like people using the emergency room as their general practitioner for $2.5 billion. Deep thinkers on the issue want to know why the President hasn't entertained one item of tort reform--protecting his friends, the trial lawyers--yet is willing to claim that doctors are eager to lop off feet, tonsils, and foreskin just to make a buck.
2. Cap & Trade will be the largest tax increase in American history.
With the 2010 election cycle just around the corner, campaign ads are not far off from being drafted. With Cap & Trade still sitting in legislative limbo, with the President's own advisor--Warren Buffet--now opposing it openly on media, with the 9.12 project in the works in which the largest gathering of anti-tax Americans from the left, right, and middle will be coming to Washington DC on September 12, and with blue dogs getting absolutely hammered in their home districts supporting it, the chance of single-party ram through victory on the matter is not wise. Cap & Trade, if passed, will contribute to unemployment, Wall Street stop and starts, and ultimately reduced treasury revenues. It would serve as the single largest tax increase on the average American in all of American history. Even President Obama admitted as much, predicting that electric bill prices, in his words, would, "skyrocket." Those that have looked at the specifics tell us that the average utility bill in America will go from $167 to $307 per month, per family.
3. Unemployment to remain high.
Now several Washington organizations from left and right, and one of note consisting of both--the Congressional Budget Office, predicts that unemployment will not shrink from the predicted "Obama high" of 8%. Instead, nearly without fail, economists are predicting unemployment at or over 10% for up to the next 24 months. That is nearly 250% the increase in unemployment under Bush for nearly the duration of his two-term presidency. If people were working, higher taxes and possible new health care entitlements could be considered, but without them working it is political suicide for Democrats to even think of it.
4. Obama's integrity tarnished in August.
Not a great deal has been made of the whoppers that the President has been spewing while the Federal Government has been in recess, but it is worth noting that many more people than I had previously realized have notice the President "exaggerating" badly in his talks on health care. For instance confusing he actual $500 physicians get to amputate a foot as opposed to the $50,000 that he claimed they got. He has shown an utter disregard for the reputation of those he talks about, the "facts" he uses to make his argument, and is highly overly optimistic about the results of his policies. Long story short, at the beginning of the summer Americans mostly trusted him, his passion index was at +10, he heads into the fall at -14.
5. A $3 trillion dollar budget.
New spending for this and that sure added up. And that brings me to number 6.
6. A coming middle class tax hike.
They will hem and haw. There will be an official, and ever arrogant Robert Gibbs explanation from the White House Press room as to why they must to do this to be "good stewards" and to be a "responsible administration" that, "pays as it goes." But the truth is, in order to pay for everything they've promised and budgeted for, a tax is looming for small businesses and working families that President Obama promised would never come. And as an aside, he was going to break that promise all along. Because the minute the "Bush tax relief" runs out in 2010, middle class taxes would be going up in an "Obama administration." Hence fundamentally Obama's "not a single dime" pledge on the campaign trail was bollocks start to finish.
Of course the President, the Democrats, the left, and Congressional leadership could surprise me. They could show up in September and endorse the Coburn health care bill in the U.S. Senate and swipe the credit for it. They could show up next week and fight with all their might to not allow the tax rates to skyrocket in 2010. They could decide to scrap Cap & Trade and re-think the use of public money for true job-based economic stimulation.
But I'm not holding my breath, and I'd advise you against it as well.
They've awakened the American worker, the American small-business owner, and the American voter.
All three of which are now wondering aloud, "What on earth have we done?"
I see this as God answering millions and millions of prayers. Double, triple your prayer time.
Thanks for posting the entire article. townhall.com has become unusable for those of us stuck on dial up.
They know that they will have destroyed the USA within months to a few years. They don’t care about the USA in terms of 80 years.
Thanks for your kind reply.
MARANATHA!
While I share your disdain for the GOP leadership and the RINO infestation.....
.....the voters in the early primaries put McCain in place.
He did have some help when others left the primary race. I live in Ohio and didn't vote McCain in the primaries on principle despite the fact that McCain was the only real contender left. He won by default at that point. The fix for this I think would be a nationwide primary, preventing an early leader from running away by "stealing bases" that were unattended in the end.
IN A TRANCE is literally true for far too many.
For a list of reasons.
The classic totalitarian control device, especially employed by Hitler, was to create confused chains of authority where all the officials were constantly at each others' throats, giving the Great Leader absolute authority and enabling him to pursue his evil goals. The Illegal Alien's doing the same thing here.
Of course they have scheduled martial law.
Of course some of their own will be angered.
They don’t care that much that they will murder many of their own. Less useless eater idiots to feed and manage.
A lot of their own will be enlisted in rogue gangs etc. murdering patriots and authentic Chrisitans . . . to set up . . .
the NEW AGE . . . THE NWO . . . THE UTOPIA . . .
barf to the max.
FAR from out of the realm of possibility.
It is well planned and scheduled . . . learning all the lessons from Hitler, Mao, Stalin et all that they could.
YUP.
The conditioning of the SHEEPLE has been going on a very long time.
Movies have been a big help.
IMO, it was the WV GOP with its first-ever WV Republican Presidential Convention on Super Tuesday that accomplished this.
McChurian has been sold out to the same puppet master globalist OThuga was reared and trained by
all his political career.
Good job. Yet he leaves-out one more potent reason why Obama is going down. His clear hatred of the military is coming to a head among we veterans and our families. In total, that’s about 20 million voters who can’t stand Obama and who hate what he is doing. These voters went about evenly for Obama and McCain in 2008, thanks to Obama’s brilliant campaign of lies. Now, I don’t think Obama retains 15% of that vote.
The DIMRATS AND THE GOP
ARE BOTH AND HAVE LONG BOTH BEEN
mere tools of the global oligarchy . . . two sides of the same coin of distraction
while the rot was being engineered aggressively under the table.
I understand your position... but remember this one this... it is very hard to get Mr. And Mrs. Suburban to riot when they have a house, cars and kids that take higher priorities to them.
But when they lose their jobs, stuff and freedom...
However,
Scripture is clear . . . there WILL BE A SATANIC GLOBAL GOVERNMENT IN POWER OF ALL NATIONS FOR 3.5-7 YEARS.
OThuga’s puppet masters have been busyin on this goal for a very long time.
Of course patriots and authentic Christians should stand tall and do great exploits for all that’s good and right . . . whether that results in martyrdom or not.
I believe that we need to “conservative organize.”
I have witnessed the success of community organizing for years through the work of the environMental movement.
They have paid workers who are diligently implementing their plans while good old American citizens try to carry on and fight back in every way possible, without much success.
We are experiencing this on a much broader scale now with Healthcare Reform.
They follow Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals and they are successful. I have a copy of the program from Radfest 2004 and I wrote an article about it back then. It was a socialist organizing event that is held every year. They have changed/hid some of their activities now, it is a little harder to find but if you look up the Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin you can follow the links and get to the crux of the matter.
We, normal Americans, have one He!! of a fight on our hands.
I tend to believe that they will act more like a cornered animal in the coming months and they will just push harder. They WILL NOT just give up while they are so close to “remaking America.”
The control means of masses of people—even city-wide control methods are incredibly advanced and most the public doesn’t even know about yet.
They can neutralize a whole city in a flash, if they wish—several different ways.
Even if they murdered say Phoenix—they don’t care. More won toward their goal of reducing the population to 200 million world wide. Less mouths to feed. Less idiots to manage. Besides, the ET’s have convinced them that’s the only way to save mankind and the planet. Of course, satan’s goal is just death and destruction under whatever pretext.
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