2013 was one of the worst years
that any post war president save Richard Nixon, has had to endure. Barack Obama
lied to the American people about big and important things and the American
people caught him in his lies. The saving grace for Obama of 2012's "Who cares
about people like me?" has been replaced with "Who can believe anything this guy
says to people like me?" Once trust is gone with a President, only divine
intervention or diabolical manipulation can hope to restore
it.
"ObamaCare" is a suppurating wound
because it's premise is both false and moronic. It will continue to suck the
marrow out of an already partially exsanguinated presidency. It directly
threatens both the Obama agenda and the Obama
presidency.
Thus the denizens of 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue are desperate and there upon enters Podesta, a former Chief
of Staff for Bill Clinton and founder of the left wing, Soros financed,
progressive think tank...the Center for American Progress, which already has
played a significant policy role for this President particularly with regard to
"ObamaCare" and expanded Executive power.
His battle plan will be to attack
on as many fronts as possible, either simultaneously or sequentially in order to
keep the GOP constantly off balance and to give the President's allies in the
media a chance to write and say something positive once again. Podesta also has
an unquenchable thirst for Presidential actions unencumbered by Constitutional
niceties.
He and the country, afterall has
witnessed this President amend "ObamaCare" 15 times, fill Federal positions in
contravention to the Constitution and use the regulatory, investigative and
enforcement agencies of his government to target and punish his political
enemies...all without the Congress really baring it's teeth to
stop him.
So what will this multi-front war look
like? Here are some possibilities and their implications:
"The War on Income
Inequality" This will be an overarching theme for 2014 mainly because
"equality of outcome", especially with regard to wealth is what "Progressives"
believe was stupidly left out of the Constitution while all the "bad stuff" like
the 2nd amendment. was included. The battles in this war will be fought over
"the minimum wage"...extension of unemployment benefits...taxing the "rich" to
pay for broken entitlements they refuse to fix...and taxing them again to pay
for new benefits and entitlements they want to create. This will be classic
emotion driven class warfare, orchestrated to paint Republicans and
conservatives as heartless, greedy, uncaring and agents for the evil rich. They
will not tell you that they refuse to grow a bigger pie so that all can have a
bigger slice. Instead they will insist that the pie is forever one
size and only sharing the wealth can restore the economy equitably. They will
tell us that this will be the rising tide that lifts all ships but they will not
tell us that half the ships have already sunk!
"The War for Fair
Immigration" This will be another emotionally charged set of battles
which will largely play on the GOP's "uber" sensitivity to the accusations that
they are racist and if they do not repent , the Hispanic vote will never be
competitive for them. Thus the so called "mainstream" GOP and even some of the
"Tea Party" GOP have declared the current immigration system to be broken and
indeed it is. The White House however, will play both the ethnic and the race
cards to try and separate the two contentious wings of the party and thereby
make both wings look bad. Their goal is again to stimulate the Hispanic vote in
2014 while attempting to get total amnesty and a fast track to citizenship in a
comprehensive bill cloaked in bureaucratic mysticism, border pseudo
"toughness and innocent looking set-asides that mask their true
goals.
The War on Climate
Change "Climate change" also formerly known as "global warming" remains
unfinished business for the Enviro-Progressives who believed Al Gore was the
Messiah before they realized that Obama was. While the country freezes and no
signs that the earth is warming have been evident for the last 15 years, the war
on fossil fuel rages on with disastrous effects for our economy and our
future. The EPA is the tip of the spear for this front and its continuing
mission is to regulate our energy supplies and use via impossible energy
emission standards and a future "cap and trade" system designed to impoverish
the middle class with sky high fuel bills. They seek an end to using coal and
oil... two of the three major sources of our energy along with natural gas.
They want this while knowing that we can be energy independent and even a major
reliable exporter of energy for the rest of the world. They want this while
knowing that their actions will destroy the economy. And just when you thought
that it could not get worse they now want to control all the bodies of water no
matter how small or impermanent, thereby becoming a de facto 4th branch of
government.
The War on the Benghazi "False
Controversy" Benghazi is a festering sore on the Obama presidency. It
also is the single biggest problem for a 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential bid.
The New York Times "report" on Benghazi is a not too subtle attempt to turn the
clock back to the good old days of... "the video did it" ... al Qaeda did
not..and there was no planned attack on our Consulate and personnel on
09/11/2012. Saying "core al-Qaeda" was not involved is akin to saying Meyer
Lansky was not core Cosa Nostra! The "false controversy" that National Security
Advisor Susan Rice referred to on "60 Minutes" just a week before, makes it
highly suspicious that this report was a coordinated job with both the White
House and the Clintons to cover up their relative responsibility for the death
of four brave Americans. Obama needs the Clintons to keep his wounded
presidency alive. Vindicating Hillary removes a major obstacle to her ambitions
while simultaneously restoring the Obama myth that al-Qaeda is "on the
run".
"The War on ObamaCare
Falsehoods" We are now told that 1.1 million Americans have now "signed
up" for ObamaCare through the Federal Exchanges. This is being heralded as
proof that both the law and the web site are finally working. No one can tell
us however, how many of the "sign ups" are really insured insofar as they have
actually paid their first premium and there is still no mechanism on the web
site for them to do so. Nor do we know who they are with regard to their age
and medical conditions. Likewise we don't know how many have simply been placed
in the expanded Medicaid program thereby setting the stage for future State and
local budget nightmares. Meanwhile 40% of people enrolled in the state
exchanges are older people and/or people with health problems. Furthermore the
CBO predictions of a $2.6 trillion cost for ObamaCare with 31 million Americans
left uninsured, remains
.
Coupled with all of the above will
be the willingness of this White House to nimbly "never let a good international
crisis go to waste" if it helps the President and his cause...and there are so
many flash points in the world now thanks to the Obama "doctrine of leading from
behind". South Sudan and the Central
African Republic are two new crisis areas while Syria, Iraq, North
Korea and China in the East China and South China Seas remain tense and
unpredictable. The Administration while denying the obvious has all but
refashioned its policy on a nuclear armed Iran, thereby abandoning Israel, the
Saudis, Lebanon, Jordan, the Gulf Arabs and the Turks to the specter of a
Persian, Shia Caliphate with a nuclear scimitar. In the midst of this chaos
caused in large part by American withdrawal from much of the world stage, our
Secretary of State has decided that now is the time to force a two state
solution on Israel and the Palestinians. Is this for domestic consumption or
are the Israelis so worried about America not having its back that they will
agree to a bad deal to avoid an immediate
and growing existential threat?
Everything Podesta and the White
House will do re the above or things yet unimagined, will be less concerned with
solving problems than preserving and solidifying political strength. These
people are not there to work for the American people...they are there to rule
the American people! They will appeal to raw emotion and fear and not to facts
and reality. They will always look to widen the split in the GOP any way they
can. After all the very act of passing a bi-partisan budget had the net effect
of furthering Republican disharmony and the debt ceiling battle in March looms
ahead. There will be many many lies about all of the above and most of the
press will not call them on it even after ObamaCare. Lies have worked before
in 2008 and 2012 and the hope is, they will work once again in 2014 as John
Podesta and company prosecute "The Wars of the Progressive
Succession."
ERLANDSSON
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