Obama is rapidly moving the US to a Rule by Decree form of strongman government. Congress becomes largely a front organization to give the appearance of a representative republic, but serves more as a backdrop for the selective application of laws and regulations at the whim of the Big Banana. This is the model followed in Venezuela and the ghost of Hugo Chavez seems to have moved into the Whit House.
Short answer: Better than we were the day before. Much, much worse than we were 10 years earlier.
US military in shambles, US health industry irreparably damaged, US image in the world at at large at its lowest point in history, US economy set back 20 years, US race relations set back 60 years.
That’s just a taste of the bitter legacy of Øbozo.
Obama has just approved China, to process Chicken sent to China from America, then sent back to America’s market and still say it was made in America.
I believe Obama will regret this day.
Buy American.
Do not buy ANY chicken. Anymore. Because now you can’t tell where it is from.
It is time to bring back America.
Palin. Cruz. Get out front.
That is the big unknown. He has written the directives (AKA Executive Orders) to facilitate his continuing rule in the event of a "National Emergency" which he himself can determine and decree. Cuidado!
I see a short term conservative Republican plan after the mid-terms, and then a huge reform movement when a conservative republican is elected president.
The Mid-term first 100 days.
Assuming the conservative Republicans have control over both houses of congress, and the liberal Republicans have been eroded so much that they can no longer effectively betray the conservative Republicans, Obama will still be in the White House, so the full conservative agenda cannot yet happen. However, they can still do much to put the United States back on the right track, in preparation for the next presidential election.
1) The first assumption will be that Obama will veto everything they send to him, so they must change budget organization to separate the budgets of what they do not want funded from what they do want funded. He cannot veto what never reaches his desk in the first place.
Perhaps the best way of doing this is to budget funding by federal agency, so there are separate votes for the Department of Defense, the EPA, the Department of HHS, and others. This allows them to still forward significantly reduced budgets for some agencies, but will give Obama the opportunity to veto the budgets of liberal and leftist agencies, one at a time, which will be intensely politically painful to him and the Democrats.
2) While it is unlikely that the conservative Republicans will get a 2/3rds majority of the senate, so they cannot impeach in the house and remove from office in the senate, they can still cite for contempt cabinet officers *and* bureaucrats, as well as impeach them, to at least strip them of their veneer of legitimacy. And congress can hold public hearings that amount to accusations of criminal behavior, over subjects like Fast & Furious. This will do much to erode bureaucratic willingness to violate the law, if it is known that with a Republican president, and an honest Justice Department, this *will* result in criminal prosecutions.
3) Because of the obnoxious behavior of the Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, who did much to diminish the minority authority of their respective houses, when conservative Republicans dominate those houses, they should not, like the liberal Republicans, approach the Democrats with unearned fairness and moderation, but should treat them like they treated the Republicans.
Time and time again the liberal Republicans were kind to Democrats who abused Republicans, likely preferring an alliance with the Democrats against the conservatives. This must end. Democrats must feel the abuse they have inflicted on Republicans.
4) Perhaps the most important thing they could cut off would be student loans. If all federal student loans end at once, the universities would have no choice but to either slash admissions or charge lower tuitions. In both cases, the end result is essential to the future of America.
5) The audit of the FED is essential to recover from the obscene game by the FED and the Treasury. Once it is known to congress, steps can be taken to mitigate the disaster.
Sounds like a recipe for a dead ruling class! Terminate them, one or a few at a time, without warning. Just when does preemptive self-defense become murder, anyway?
The repubs in the House and Senate will do what they have yet to do and decide that such EOs are, in fact, un-Constitutional and help impeach the Republican President.