I'd like to take this opportunity to address some comments I've received from multiple people about why all the negativity, these guys will be gone in four or eight years and we will learn from them. In the past, I would have taken the long view on this kind of thing as well. However, President George Bush was such a polarizing figure that the left pushed farther and farther left. The left was bitterly disappointed by President Clinton's slide towards the middle after the 1996 mid-term elections. When Al Gore lost, the left was apoplectic. For four years they stewed at the policies of President Bush. I have no idea why since his domestic policy was pretty much centrist to left-centrist, growing government. They hated his foreign policy because they feel the world's opinion is more important that what is good for the United States. When President Obama finally took the reins by defeating the liberal John McCain, the left went nuts. Everything was suddenly on the table, and not only on the table, but with a President who, at least rhetorically, was willing to push that it has to be done now. This is probably because they know that there is the potential for a backlash similar to 1996 in the 2010 mid-term elections.
The foot in the door is all they need. Government programs don't retract, they expand. Idiots like the two Maine Senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, give enough votes to get some form of the moronic packages in the door, never to be pushed back out. The administration has already seized American companies and either decided how to run them (FDA and tobacco) or outright taken control of a majority interest, handing off the rest to unions. In doing so, they have violated bankruptcy law and shown a blatant disregard for the Constitution.
The effects of these actions, if allowed to go through, will handcuff future generations from ever being able to fight back. The crippling debt and the burden on the economy will mean our children will have difficulty finding jobs. Inflation from the ridiculous spending could cripple the dollar. We stand at the edge of the Vimar Republic. We can't let that happen. Do I believe it will? No. I think the American people have already shown that they are willing to stand up. I hope that after the 2010 elections I can write about the progress we are making and keep a watchful eye for corruption and other things. I am by nature an optimistic person. But we have to stop this now. We cannot rest while the liberals have complete control of this country. I can't find anything positive about this President because he is, by nature, a foe to the United States Constitution and he has shown this at every turn. So I'll have to be negative for a bit longer. I trust my reader(s) know that if I see positives about the administration, I will point them out. But we can already see the left pushing the President farther left and his rhetoric is showing a willingness to do so. The agenda is subversive and it works on levels we aren't meant to see. Vigilance is the defense of liberty.
Don't ever forget, President Obama talks about fundamentally changing the United States.
This one was worth waiting for. Don't forget your comment to me about voting for Obama because after every really bad president was a really good one. Don't know that that will happen, but we can hope. Even Glenn Beck says Obama is better than McCain in the sense that Obama has roused up the conservatives whereas they might have waited out McCain while he did much the same thing to our country. Probably not the apology tour, though.
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