Posted on 03/14/2014 5:42:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
With each passing day, President Barack Obama, leftism personified, demonstrates that leftism is characterized by anything other than the human compassion it claims as its exclusive possession.
I've always said leftists are about not compassion or treating people with sensitivity and respect, much less equally, but control and bullying, all with an arrogant, mean-spirited air of superiority.
For Obama, there are at least two aspects to his control-freakishness. He not only pushes policies that give the federal government vastly more control over our lives but also is inordinately dictatorial in the manner in which he ramrods his agenda through, displaying utter contempt for what anyone else thinks, what he might damage with his unilateral actions and, most of all, the Constitution and the rule of law.
Obama is on a tear now, and no one had better get in his way. He told a group of liberal Democratic donors at a fundraiser this week in New York: "I hope you will all step up because, although I'm very optimistic about our long-term trends, the notion that we would waste two years in further inaction rather than move boldly on a path that I think all of us in this room agree on -- we don't have time to waste. ... The clock is ticking. ... I want to squeeze every last little bit of work that I can during the remainder of my term."
Prior to his taking office, did anyone ever tell this man no in his life? He acts as though no one else has any say at all in policy decisions in a nation established with three coequal branches of the federal government, individual states with robust powers and citizens armed with individual liberties.
It's as if he truly believes that as president, he has the power and a mandate to cram through every last morsel of his leftist wish list, no matter who opposes him or whom he hurts in the process.
His latest gambit is to impose federal regulations that could extend overtime pay to as many as 10 million workers who are now ineligible for it. What makes this leftist president think he has a duty to use his office to act like a union boss, micromanaging what management pays employees, irrespective of any of the multitudinous factors that have to be considered in making such a decision?
This is part of a disturbing pattern. Obama obviously doesn't care that his onerous regulatory, spending and taxing policies have put a severe and long-term drag on the economy, as long as he gets to use the Monopoly money to spend on pet projects and to redistribute to people he deems, in his sole discretion, to be worthier of it.
He is defiantly unconcerned that Obamacare is going to raise people's premiums, as finally admitted by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, despite his promise that it would reduce the premiums for a family of four by some $2,500. He doesn't care that Obamacare is radically reducing the available medical specialists in almost every field throughout the country, that people are losing their plans that he promised they could keep or that it is forcing people out of work. As long as, in his sole discretion, he gets to keep his beloved Obamacare, he will not even consider the collateral damage.
In his push to extend unemployment benefits ad infinitum, in his sole discretion, he callously ignored study after study showing that these extensions cost people jobs. He doesn't care that increasing capital gains taxes reduces overall revenues. He doesn't evidence the slightest concern that his unilateral action, in his sole discretion, to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour could cost 500,000 jobs, according to the Congressional Budget Office. He is the president and a wonderful liberal who "cares" about the little guy, so don't you dare question him.
Trade associations, which are already engaged in fighting him over this minimum wage insanity, say they were blindsided by his announcement to extend overtime pay to workers. "This came as a shot out of the blue," said David French, the National Retail Federation's senior vice president for government relations. "Just on the surface, this looks like an enormous new administrative burden."
But Obama can't be concerned with grumbling from the peons. Betsey Stevenson of the White House Council of Economic Advisers said they were trying to "make the labor force as fair as possible for all workers."
There they go again. It's all about "fairness" and "economic justice" and other Jane Fonda-esque euphemisms to disguise their tyrannical actions as caring. Fairness for whom? If employers decide to limit employees' hours or cut their base pay to account for overtime, will that be fair for them?
People are rightly concerned that Obama routinely ignores the Constitution and rule of law, but they sometimes overlook just how callous he is in the guise of being compassionate, and it's time he quit getting a pass for his officious behavior.
The employer’s, just need to ignore his EO. It carries no weight anyway.
SOunds like a GOOD IDEA!
Just have to get it past that s.o.b. Boehner.
Perhaps what Issa et al are doing is establishing a case for just that. We can only hope.
Thanks Graewulf!
” - - - Hopefully, the Democrats and the Left Stream Media will accuse the RINOs of “using the blame game by playing politics to use the Obama “phony” scandals as a political football to quiet their extremist TEA Party base by trying to Impeach the first Nobel Peace Prize wining Commander in Chief.”
Come to think of it, their comments are EXACTLY what our Founding Fathers would have expected from supporters of those who are undergoing Constitutional Checks and Balances. - - - “
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It is absolutely essential that the Left stream Media attacks us in order that they prove to all that they, The Left Stream Media, must be defeated along with the Obama Agenda politicians who have damaged our Republic for the last five years.
Continuing the failed Dole-McCain-Romney policy of “Cower and Hide,” as you advocate, will only embolden our enemies.
Our continued RINO Cowardice will not make any difference in changing the Left Stream Media’s opinion of us - - - they are now and will always be part of the problem.
We need to recognize who are the enemies to our Republic, and defeat them convincingly with what we have available at the time of each pitched battle.
Our best chance of winning a veto-proof US Senate majority is to attack, Attack, ATTACK!
One third of the US Senate is ours for the taking IF we stay on offense!
Sit on your “safe” RINO hands if you want to, but 2014 is the time for WAR, just like Breitbart warned us.
Speaker Boehner has failed, and is of no further use to our Republic as Speaker.
He, as leader of the Congressional RINO Party, must be forced to resign, ASAP, preferably during a tear-filled TV broadcast.
preferably during a tear-filled TV broadcast.
And after a day at a sun-tanning salon.
“Sit on your “safe” RINO hands if you want to, but 2014 is the time for WAR, just like Breitbart warned us.”
I agree. Let’s win the Senate and go kick butt.
That is the plan.
You still sadly cling to the notion that the system is not dysfunctional, that there’s still a functioning Constitution, and that somehow good will triumph.
This is called, “Normalcy Bias”. The naive, Pollyanna mindset that all will be restored to chocolate rivers and children playing with gumdrop smiles, if we can just hold out until the next selection cycle.
I submit MOST of the country has an acute case of Normalcy Bias.
And it will end up being fatal.
According to the lessons of history, defeating the enemies of the Republic cannot happen by any civil means available to us or by any civil means we seek to establish.
A civil society requires a two-way street of respect for the law. That no longer exists.
The rulers no longer respect the law, and have declared they will decree what the law is and how it is to be imposed on We The Subjects.
Defeating them will require UNCivil means, because the enemy has no intention of being civil about remaining in power and using the system to impose it's will as it sees fit.
Get your heads out of the sand and realize where we have arrived.
Your survival may depend on it.
Never going to happen.
People aren’t workers. That’s communist.
They’re employees, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, anything but a ‘worker.’
I am not a bee.
” - - - Never going to happen. - - - “
Congressional Cowardly RINOs rejoice at your proclamation, especially Speaker Boehner.
If wishes were...You really I’m that influential? It’s a fantasy, an utter childish fantasy to believe that the cowards in Congress have the guts, stamina or votes to impeach and then remove Obama from office.
Stop pretending and wasting your time and energy on neverbes.
Let’s work to elect the most conservative candidates we can and win the House and Senate. That’s the critical part. Obama is a symptom, not the cause of our woes. Go back and read some of the threads about Clinton’s abuses. It was the end of America then, too.
Bush came in and we didn’t get him to change a thing. He didn’t chop out a single agency, etc. Now we know better and we have a massive debt which calls for cuts and consolidation. We can do it, but it will take time - a generation at least.
It is a character flaw of mine - - I never cut and run.
You’re going to need a bigger boat.
Senator Rand Paul seems, at times, to be interested in bringing the failed idea of the “Big Tent” back into the Republican Party with statements such as this one: “ - - -”I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, - - - . “
What purpose does a “bigger” Republican Party have to restoring the Core Values that our sorry Congressional RINOs have refused to defend by their cave-in, doormat votes to their effective boss Obama?
Senator Paul does not recognize the there has been for the past 5 years virtually no effective difference between the Congressional RINO and Democrat Leaderships.
Thus, a really “Big” Republican Party will just make for more really big cave-ins to Democrats, IMHO.
Congressional RINO Leadership has proven to be incompetent for the last five years.
Replacing Congressional RINO Leadership with fire-in-the-belly Republicans such as Trey Gowdy would do more to give us Conservative voters a reason to vote FOR Republican Candidates, regardless of how “big” the Republican Party becomes.
Paul is concerned about assembling an army and THEN mounting a steady trend to tolerance.
We are asking ALL of the Republicans to fight with what you have NOW, and to fight to the last man/woman!
GIVE US A REASON TO VOTE FOR YOU!
IOW, attack Attack, ATTACK!
And to Hell with the “look, or size” of the doormat Republican Party!
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