Vincent Fiore
Waiting for the clash
By Vincent Fiore
It's safe to say that most on the conservative side of the aisle expected Barack Obama to govern exactly as he has. Though "govern" is perhaps too charitable a word when applied to this president. Maybe "rule" would be more applicable.
After all, ramming a so-called "Health Care Reform Bill" down the throats of the majority of the American public is no small leap. After that coup, the electorate can be dismayingly confident that President Obama will show this same heavy-handedness towards his much-maligned Cap and Trade Bill, and what I see as possibly the fuse that lights the civil disobedience powder keg that resides in all outraged Americans these days: Immigration Reform, or in reality, amnesty for illegal aliens.
Neither of these bills will be hailed — except by the liberal media — as moving America smartly in the right direction. On Cap and Trade, the bill is nothing more than the Obama government involving itself in the day-to-day energy concerns of the citizenry. From how you make your toast in the morning, to mandating energy/appliance criteria in order to sell your home, the hand of a statist government closes ever tighter.
So while Obama and his Democratic Party tax and regulate American's through senseless legislation as Cap and Trade , it will then further assault Americans by pushing (read as: forcing) to support and subsidize some 12 to 20 million illegal aliens; Most of whom will — magically — vote Democrat in future elections.
When President George W. Bush tried this a few years back, the majority of Americans from all political walks rightly rejected any such attempts at legalizing lawbreakers. It was also a major reason why the GOP suffered so badly at the polls in later election cycles.
But new elements in this debate to allow resource-consuming lawbreakers to become American citizens has been added, and that would be an arrogant, class-conscious, and self-aggrandized amateur of a president and his Democratic majority regime.
What looms ahead is much anger and frustration that could take a serious and dangerous path. Wages for workers are down, home foreclosures are at a record high, and real unemployment is closer to 17% than 9.7%. Even this administration, which has great difficulty in telling the truth to the country, predicts slow job growth for years to come.
Yet, President Obama spends the taxpayers' present and future monies as if there is neither conscious nor consequence. Ahh, but there is consequence, and not just in election cycles. Surely, the GOP can expect major if not historic gains come November. But there are other consequences that have nothing to do with elections and the Democratic process, but everything to do with emotional investment.
By acting as this president and these Democrats in Congress have done these past months, the term political bullying takes on a heightened meaning. Merely strong-arming legislation, as past administrations have done, might be considered partisan — a normal yet media-despised occurrence that happens regularly in Washington — but that is not what is going on here.
This is a direct confrontation with the entire country, the great majority of it not wanting what the Obama administration is selling. It is a naked power grab, with those that hold the reins of power running roughshod over the electorate. Inevitably, when government goes directly against the will of the people who elect it, it is inescapable that confrontation will follow.
Many feel at wit's end now over what they see as government overreach into every aspect of life. There is a tax for everything, and if there isn't a tax, then there is a regulation of one kind or another.
Americans have heard the shouts of "no justice, no peace" throughout the years used by civil rights groups in the inner cities. Sometimes, civil disobedience followed. But all across the nation, from the heartlands to the shores of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the cry might be something more akin to "give me back my country!"
Tragically, this is what candidate Obama meant when he spoke of "Hope and Change:" Polarization of the classes through the redistribution of wealth from one class to another. And by the legislation he promotes and forces through a willing Democratic Party-led Congress, he is achieving it.
November cannot come fast enough for America. The question is, will we survive another six months of this polarizing president?
© Vincent Fiore
April 20, 2010
It's safe to say that most on the conservative side of the aisle expected Barack Obama to govern exactly as he has. Though "govern" is perhaps too charitable a word when applied to this president. Maybe "rule" would be more applicable.
After all, ramming a so-called "Health Care Reform Bill" down the throats of the majority of the American public is no small leap. After that coup, the electorate can be dismayingly confident that President Obama will show this same heavy-handedness towards his much-maligned Cap and Trade Bill, and what I see as possibly the fuse that lights the civil disobedience powder keg that resides in all outraged Americans these days: Immigration Reform, or in reality, amnesty for illegal aliens.
Neither of these bills will be hailed — except by the liberal media — as moving America smartly in the right direction. On Cap and Trade, the bill is nothing more than the Obama government involving itself in the day-to-day energy concerns of the citizenry. From how you make your toast in the morning, to mandating energy/appliance criteria in order to sell your home, the hand of a statist government closes ever tighter.
So while Obama and his Democratic Party tax and regulate American's through senseless legislation as Cap and Trade , it will then further assault Americans by pushing (read as: forcing) to support and subsidize some 12 to 20 million illegal aliens; Most of whom will — magically — vote Democrat in future elections.
When President George W. Bush tried this a few years back, the majority of Americans from all political walks rightly rejected any such attempts at legalizing lawbreakers. It was also a major reason why the GOP suffered so badly at the polls in later election cycles.
But new elements in this debate to allow resource-consuming lawbreakers to become American citizens has been added, and that would be an arrogant, class-conscious, and self-aggrandized amateur of a president and his Democratic majority regime.
What looms ahead is much anger and frustration that could take a serious and dangerous path. Wages for workers are down, home foreclosures are at a record high, and real unemployment is closer to 17% than 9.7%. Even this administration, which has great difficulty in telling the truth to the country, predicts slow job growth for years to come.
Yet, President Obama spends the taxpayers' present and future monies as if there is neither conscious nor consequence. Ahh, but there is consequence, and not just in election cycles. Surely, the GOP can expect major if not historic gains come November. But there are other consequences that have nothing to do with elections and the Democratic process, but everything to do with emotional investment.
By acting as this president and these Democrats in Congress have done these past months, the term political bullying takes on a heightened meaning. Merely strong-arming legislation, as past administrations have done, might be considered partisan — a normal yet media-despised occurrence that happens regularly in Washington — but that is not what is going on here.
This is a direct confrontation with the entire country, the great majority of it not wanting what the Obama administration is selling. It is a naked power grab, with those that hold the reins of power running roughshod over the electorate. Inevitably, when government goes directly against the will of the people who elect it, it is inescapable that confrontation will follow.
Many feel at wit's end now over what they see as government overreach into every aspect of life. There is a tax for everything, and if there isn't a tax, then there is a regulation of one kind or another.
Americans have heard the shouts of "no justice, no peace" throughout the years used by civil rights groups in the inner cities. Sometimes, civil disobedience followed. But all across the nation, from the heartlands to the shores of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the cry might be something more akin to "give me back my country!"
Tragically, this is what candidate Obama meant when he spoke of "Hope and Change:" Polarization of the classes through the redistribution of wealth from one class to another. And by the legislation he promotes and forces through a willing Democratic Party-led Congress, he is achieving it.
November cannot come fast enough for America. The question is, will we survive another six months of this polarizing president?
© Vincent Fiore
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