Posted on 08/14/2012 4:11:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." -- Barack Obama
So far, the message of the Obama campaign essentially seems to be, "I'm unable to effectively govern because Republicans won't do everything I want. Re-elect me so I can deliver more of the same. Oh, also Paul Ryan wants to push old people off a cliff while Mitt Romney will give you cancer." That doesn't tell you much about what Obama would try to do in his second term, but given that he appears to be largely indifferent to the law and the wishes of the American people, there's no reason to be hopeful. Furthermore, given how deferential the Supreme Court has been to Obama and the fact that the GOP would undoubtedly be more willing to go along to get along if it’s defeated this year, the damage Obama could do in a second term would be incalculable.
1) America's credit rating slides further: Under Barack Obama's leadership, America lost its AAA credit rating for the first time since 1917. That means our country is now more of a gamble to loan money to than Microsoft. Given that Barack Obama has shown zero inclination to get spending under control or seriously tackle entitlement reform, our rating would be practically guaranteed to drop at least another notch. In other words, this country would soon have the same S&P rating as Qatar and the Czech Republic.
2) The middle class will see massive tax increases: Congress has been at an impasse because Republicans want to cut spending and Democrats want to raise taxes. Despite all the talk you hear about the "Buffet Rule," it would produce a comparatively small amount of actual revenue because the rich are close to tapped out. The real money is in the middle class. If we're not going to cut our escalating spending, then taxes on the middle class will have to soar like an eagle fired out of a cannon.
3) Gas and energy prices will be dramatically higher: Obama once said, "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." His Energy Secretary Steven Chu added, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." Is it any wonder that Obama won't drill ANWR, has blocked the Keystone Pipeline, and has slow-walked offshore drilling? Obama views sky high energy prices as a feature, not a bug and if he doesn't have to face the voters again, expect to see energy prices lift off like the manned space shuttles Obama permanently grounded.
4) Obamacare goes into effect: If the GOP controls the House, the Senate, and the White House, it should be able to gut Obamacare and keep it from ever going into effect. On the other hand if Obama is reelected, there's a better chance of the NAACP endorsing Mitt Romney than there is that health care reform will ever be repealed.
5) The Supreme Court moves to the left: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 79, Antonin Scalia is 76, Anthony Kennedy is 75, and Stephen Breyer is 73. Replacing Ginsburg or Breyer with 50 year old liberals would be bad enough, but imagine Obama selecting a replacement for Scalia or Kennedy. If that happens, Obama would have five guaranteed votes on the Supreme Court for anything he wants to do. Once we get to that point, the Constitution might as well not even exist.
6) Get ready for open borders: Barack Obama has already bypassed Congress to implement the DREAM ACT by fiat, he's planning to break the law to hand out work permits to illegal aliens, he's openly proclaimed that ICE won't pick up many of the illegals detained by Arizona, and illegals are now being released by the border patrol sans proof if they claim they went to high school here. We're very close to having an open border policy right now for any illegal alien who hasn't committed a felony here and in an Obama second term, it's fair to assume that the primary qualification for citizenship would be the ability to sneak into the country.
7) Gun control will be a priority: Barack Obama filled out a "questionnaire in which he called for banning 'the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns'" and he let everyone know what he thought about gun owners even before he was elected with his notorious "bitter clingers" quip. His campaign website doesn't even have a section addressing 2nd Amendment issues, perhaps because Obama would have to admit that he's already calling for a reinstatement of the Assault Weapons Ban. Without an election to keep him in check, expect Barack Obama to "evolve" on gun control the same way he did on gay marriage.
Not present on this list, but necessary to its fuller implementation...
Suppression of criminal dissent.
Dissent becomes “extreme”, then “risky”, then “we can’t allow a small but dangerous minority to derail progress”, to “prevention of tragedy” and so on, to camps and killing pits at the far and final end.
It’s such a plain and simple slope yet our population has been deliberately idiotized to the point of wanting to try it out.
Not present on this list, but necessary to its fuller implementation...
Suppression of criminal dissent.
Dissent becomes “extreme”, then “risky”, then “we can’t allow a small but dangerous minority to derail progress”, to “prevention of tragedy” and so on, to camps and killing pits at the far and final end.
It’s such a plain and simple slope yet our population has been deliberately idiotized to the point of wanting to try it out.
if you can’t see the sarcasm in signing a post, Weimar Germany, I don’t know what to tell you..
Weimar Germany is a mirror of what we are going through right now. Poor economic conditions, a lack of leadership and a desire for things to just get back to the way they were. The vacuum that was created by apathy was filled by a dictator-in-waiting with a plan to save Germans from themselves. One of the contributing factors was key voting blocks decided to vote for a group or a party that had no chance of leading or even getting any influence in coalition govt, it was just a protest vote. The lack of a legislative majority, because of the protest voting, led to a plurality by a group nobody really liked, but managed to get small population groups in certain regions to vote for them. They then forced smaller parties to go along by promising to punish the second largest group and dole out power accordingly.
The historic parallels are frightening.
I think its become obvious that many of these people actually want an obama second term actually hoping for total collapse.
I think its become obvious that many of these people actually want an obama second term actually hoping for total collapse.
Yes the House could veto, but not without the Senate
8. Revolution
How about they at least try, and at least make it a central issue - which it already is!! They’re not even trying to be fiscally conservative.
He was being sarcastic.
BTW the rats taking back the House is not on the table.
There might have been, but I stand by what I said. Not voting would guarantee his reelection, the rats getting the House back and keeping the Senate.
Ah, the protest vote. They tell us that Romney is just the same as obama so they are going to vote for some pure conservative they met at the grocery store who never ever disagrees with them. They'll show those darn Republican leaders! Maybe next election they'll give us a REAL conservative.
That might have been a great idea at one time, but this time it will mean that the left WILL be able to put into place EVERYTHING they need to put a permanent lock on their power. The presidency, both houses of Congress, the federal judges, the Supreme Court, the swarms of "legal" illegal immigrants, the media. Obama won't even need Congress. He will just do what he wants. No one will stop him since there aren't enough Pubs and the dems want him to do whatever he wants.
Sure, there will be more elections down the line, but guess what? Pubs will never win another.
So, you say, we'll have a revolution. Great. Won't that be fun?
9) Race Riots in a city near you
I think Romney is nothing but a damn liberal. However, I must vote for him since he is running against a Communist.
Yes, and you see it to, history is repeating itself. Just like Germany promised to back Serbia in 1914, the US is promised to back Israel. Funny, how Russia is on the other side again.
I’d add that Obama will continue to issue illegal Executive Orders that in effect by pass Congress and give himself vast new powers. His first use of these new powers will be to muzzle talk radio and Internet blogs and virtually end free speech. I would not put it past him to also end free elections by 2016. This is how how Caesar Chavez became dictator.
IF BHO is reelected, then by 2016:
1. Obama will be First Citizen, de facto Emperor.
2. The US Republic will be a facade, with all the power concentrated in the Executive branch.
3. Rule of law will have become a quaint memory.
4. Citizens will become subjects.
5. Government will determine what are ‘rights’ of the people.
6. The last light of western Christian world evangelism will have been extinguished.
7. Our children will have lost the blessings God bestowed upon our generation.
8) All 401(k) savings accounts will be severely regulated and taxed. The Obama administration will direct all investments of retirement plans to only government bonds, T-notes, etc. Contributions will no longer be tax free.
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