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Why the 'O'-ministration will implode in weeks
Townhall.com ^ | 8-29-2009 | Kevin McCullough

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?"


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KEYWORDS: 2012; amateurhour; bho44; demise; implosion; kenya; kenyan; muslim; obama
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To: Quix; B-Chan; Alamo-Girl; Lee N. Field; Alex Murphy
Another confirming puzzle piece I’d just as soon not have stumbled across . . . Far too many such at this point in time.

From 2003? Secret gas chambers? Are these for when the aliens land and try to take over the good old USofA?

I see the nut-jobs are working overtime. More confirmation of defective minds at work.


341 posted on 08/31/2009 6:22:07 AM PDT by topcat54 ("If Israel is 'God's prophetic clock,' then dispensationalists do not know how to tell time.")
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To: oprahstheantichrist

Some people have claimed that there are already 800 such camps, places completely constructed and waiting in the USA.

Sounds like a lot. I guess 300 million people is a lot of people to dispatch quickly.

GOD ALONE IS OUR REFUGE.


342 posted on 08/31/2009 6:40:09 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Joya

I haven’t read convincing reports about all the means to do that. Some sites reportedly do have state of the art crematoria.

Some folks seem to think that Star Treky disintigration weapon sorts of things will be used to transform bodies into very basic elements instantly.


343 posted on 08/31/2009 6:41:56 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: topcat54

The confirmation of hostile ignorance is always welcome.

When one’s theology is correct, it’s not a great leap to understand that the global government MUST have such things prepared. They aren’t going to wake up on a Monday morning and decide that by Friday they’d better start the trains rolling if they have no trains and sites constructed.

And folks who are ignoring OThuga, Kissinger, Soros, Z Brezenski, Gorbachev, Carter, Klintoons et al in terms of globalism and its’ goals . . .

aren’t living in the real world by a galactic cluster’s margin worth.

Thankfully this website now firmly stands against globalism and all it’s evils whether all the members are out of cluelessness, or not.


344 posted on 08/31/2009 6:45:26 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: melancholy

Given all the evidence,

I’d say you’re s sure bet to be quite right.

God have mercy on us all.


345 posted on 08/31/2009 6:46:33 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: timetostand
Am I paranoid? perhaps but things are getting a little scary!

Bump that - things that make me go hmmmm...
346 posted on 08/31/2009 6:55:42 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: AD from SpringBay

For those who’ve done the research and been awake . . .

apart from God . . .

things have been scarry for a long time.

Read the quotes linked in my tagline:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81


347 posted on 08/31/2009 6:59:15 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: topcat54
From 2003? Secret gas chambers? Are these for when the aliens land and try to take over the good old USofA?


348 posted on 08/31/2009 7:05:57 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (One man, alone! Betrayed by the country he loves, now its last hope in their final hour of need!)
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To: Kaslin
This is exactly what I predicted last year

And now there are three of us. The willful ignorance on this subject is stupefying.

349 posted on 08/31/2009 7:09:06 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: topcat54

BTW,

it’s defective thinking

that the fallen angels/ ET’s

haven’t been essentially in charge of the ruling global oligarchy for more than 50 years.


350 posted on 08/31/2009 7:09:51 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: topcat54
AM VERY CURIOUS, TC,

What percentage of the quotes ref'd in my tagline have you read?

What was your response in your own head to yourself about them?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81

351 posted on 08/31/2009 7:20:47 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix; Alex Murphy; Lee N. Field
the fallen angels/ ET’s

Another unbiblical notion. A mix of modern pseudo-science and cultism.

352 posted on 08/31/2009 7:25:17 AM PDT by topcat54 ("If Israel is 'God's prophetic clock,' then dispensationalists do not know how to tell time.")
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To: Quix
...things have been scarry for a long time.

I know. There are too many trigger events on the horizon to now easily count. The 5000 Year Leap by Cleon Skouson is a real eye opener, it shows us how our nation started, and how our (present company excluded) current infatuation with red state / blue state thinking is a poison to the mind and the republic. And that's just in a secular context.
353 posted on 08/31/2009 7:28:32 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Quix
The confirmation of hostile ignorance is always welcome.

Who is the one promoting nonsensical pseudo-science and unsubstantiated rumor mongering?

Some people have claimed that there are already 800 such camps, places completely constructed and waiting in the USA.

Some people are nut-jobs and/or self-promoters that the ignorant love to follow and help promote.

Please don't invite me to your club. I value my sanity.

354 posted on 08/31/2009 7:30:44 AM PDT by topcat54 ("If Israel is 'God's prophetic clock,' then dispensationalists do not know how to tell time.")
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To: Quix
What percentage of the quotes ref'd in my tagline have you read?

Any crank can piece together scenarios and quotes from various sources and construct a fantasy conspiracy theory. Some are better than others. Yours is mediocre.

355 posted on 08/31/2009 7:33:41 AM PDT by topcat54 ("If Israel is 'God's prophetic clock,' then dispensationalists do not know how to tell time.")
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To: topcat54

What a low class dodge.


356 posted on 08/31/2009 7:52:20 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: topcat54

Actually, as Guy Malone’s

utterly top flight panel of highly qualified experts have documented

it’s EXCEEDINGLY SOLIDLY BIBLICAL.

However, we realize that some folks continue to think and live in the

OUTER LIMITS

about such topics.


357 posted on 08/31/2009 7:53:18 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: AD from SpringBay

Interesting. May try and track it down.

Soooo much on my reading plate at present.

God be with you and yours.


358 posted on 08/31/2009 7:54:06 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: topcat54

From what I observe,

that last line is grossly untrue.


359 posted on 08/31/2009 7:55:48 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix
I would like to see 0bama's socialist programs fail.

Cap & Trade, 0bamacare, Control of the Internet etc, etc, etc.

I favor Capitalism not socialism/fascism or what ever you choose to call his far out leftist policies.

As CINC he has no idea what he is doing. Left alone the generals can win wars.

Insubordinate and out of control Eric Holder wanting to prosecute the CIA after 0bama's public statments to contrary.

44 czars yet less than 50% of appointive office have not been filled.

Mr 0bama needs to get his house in order before he flies all over the world thanking his foreign donors and tries to change the basic US system.

Fail/implode whatever you choose to call it, let him fail. He is after all a public servant of the citizens of US. His arrogance toward the US public will not gain the support he needs.

360 posted on 08/31/2009 8:35:30 AM PDT by TYVets (Let’s Roll!!! The leadership of the GOP has no spine and no guts, but we conservatives do)
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