If you stand back and watch the circus going on in Washington D. C., you would observe the following: first, the Republicans are so busy negotiating the solution to the “fiscal cliff” crisis that they forget that compromise takes TWO parties. Second, we have a President who makes “give me what I want, or else” ultimatums and then busies himself doing non-essential, unimportant activities, in the almost mistaken belief that he can pin all the consequences of his failure of leadership on the Republicans. The Progressives (aka. Democrats) have NOT offered anything more substantial than”raise the taxes on the rich”, knowing full well that it won’t make even a small dent in our debt. Obama and the Progressives merely want to punish the successful and keep spending like drunken sailors! The Republican dog keeps chasing its tail while the Progressives look on and laugh, feeling so smug that none of the fallout will land on them when in fact they are doing NOTHING to avoid the coming crisis.
What the Progressives are asking for is to give the heroin addict more heroin if he gives you his “promise” to quit later. Progressives aren’t stupid because Obama himself said that the biggest drivers of our deficit spending are Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. He admitted that these programs need to be REFORMED, not discontinued; but Obama also realizes that these entitlement programs buy votes and keep his Progressives in power. Hurt the seniors, the poor, and those in need; and you cut your own political throat. The stark reality for ALL politicians is that they realize that these programs are NOT sustainable in their current form.
The Republican leadership is so busy trying to diminish the influence of the Tea Party representatives because the socialist left has succeeded, with the help of their propaganda wing (formerly known as the Main Stream Media), in painting the Tea Party as “extreme right wing nut jobs” that they have ceased to hear the voices of real people. The Republican “establishment” has surrendered their spine in a vain attempt to be liked by the MSM, not realizing that too many of the media have already sold their soul to the devil.
Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chris Van Hollen, Chuck Schumer, and all the other Progressive leadership are all hoping that the country does go over the fiscal cliff because it will actually accomplish almost EVERYTHING that the Progressives want to achieve. Taxes will go up on EVERYONE! Tax rates will rise to Clinton era levels, and taxes on dividends and investments will rise, stifling economic growth. It also DOES NOT do anything to stop the extreme overspending by Obama and his Progressives. In other words, those guys want what they want with no compromise! I didn’t realize that we now lived under a dictatorship, but I’ve been wrong before.
Lindsay Graham, Bob Corker, and all the other Progressive Republican lap dogs need to stop throwing themselves face down on the concrete in front of Obama. Sit at the negotiating table like adults; and if Obama pulls his usual tantrum throwing and walks out on the negotiations because he can’t have his way, then go to the microphones and explain to the American people and lay out what was offered and what was rejected before Obama and his propaganda machine has a chance to spin the truth away.
Obama is appealing to American citizens (well, actually anyone in America, legal or not) to use social media to tell their Congressmen to give him what he wants with NO compromise. I ask you, before you do that, to think about this; if you taxed the rich totally out of existence, you may be able to run the government for six months. But you would have NO jobs and no social safety nets. Inflation would be as bad or worse than it was in Germany during the Weimar Republic. History of that era is easy to find either on the net or in print. The situation of the Weimar Republic issued in the reign of Adolf Hitler as the “savior of Germany”. It kind of sounds like the praise that is being heaped on Obama right now by people like Jamie Foxx.
Republican Senators: you need to decide whether or not your principles, if you have any left, are worth defending or if you should retire to that chicken ranch you’ve technically been living on the last couple of elections. Standing in front of a mirror debating and compromising with yourselves is not what most of us citizens would call leadership (or even sanity in that case). It is your job, ladies and gentlemen of the United States Congress, to hold the President up to the responsibilities he declared he wanted when he ran for a second term. No more blaming others for his failures of leadership. No more leaving the hard decisions to his advisers, aides, or other politicos. You make him, and him alone, sit down and write out exactly what he is willing to compromise on (whether it be reform, change, or REAL spending cuts.)
It is time for Mr. Obama to start treating the opposition with some respect because he is NOT the smartest man in the room, as the media has made him out to be. He needs to learn to listen to opposing views and show himself flexible enough to deserve the honor and respect of the office he holds. If he’s NOT willing to act like a reasonable adult, then we have indeed degenerated into a third-world banana republic. Ladies and gentlemen, take a lesson from marriage…no one party EVER gets everything they want in the relationship if harmony is to be maintained, and compromise is beneficial to BOTH parties. Merry Christmas.
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Congress should stop letting Obama get away with saying he won the election and therefore the people have given him a mandate for his taxing and spending policies.
The people also elected a Republican Congress, and the House of Representatives has always been considered to be the body that most directly reflects the will of the people. Congress has a better claim to a popular mandate than the President does.
Congress does not have the Power the Citizens of the US thought they have. That Power was taken away from them little by little, every Executive Order Any of the Presidents wrote, have taken little bite size pieces of Congressional Power away from them, to the point now that None of them have ANY BALLS, well, except for maybe Hillary or Nancy Pelosi. But Congress has been put down by Executive Order and the War power Act. It’s a complex Mess, but all the info can be found if you are willing to look for it. Even the Republican President GW Bush, and even his father, signed many executive orders removing the powers of Congress to stop things from happening. So now Obama has Balls as big as church bells, and is Not worried about removing the remaining Bounderies and Powers of Congress. His Handlers have told him to take it as far as he is willing to go, because the Super Rich need to get their NWO one World Government on the Road. So all Obama is doing is paving the Road to a One World Government, and I just Bet that Obama was promised to get the Lead spot when the Ruler of the World is being elected.
Obama’s next Executive decree will be the same a his buddy Morsi who declared himself the Egyptian King.
Simple truth…NO. The country is De Facto and the election voted it in as Legitimate. The DOJ cares nothing for the constitution and the Military backs the new Con-unistic state of ObamaNation. So no…you have nothing now. NWO>>>
We need representatives with backbones, not the snivelling weasels that The Elite put up to ‘counter’ the democrats. Haven’t seen very many of those around.
Then quit electing lawyers that can`t balance their check book.
First, Constitutionally the president has no authority whatsoever in creating a budget.
It’s a Legislative duty. The President is over the relatively menial Executive branch. Truth-be-told, the President is supposed to be no more than a figurehead….at times a cheerleader.
This POS absolutely ignores the Constitution….is assuming dictatorial powers.
And he’s getting away with it.
Your Congressman is not stupid.
They all know we want term limitations…waaaaay smaller govt…waaaaay lower taxes…and end to bribery (lobbyists)…and end to pork riders….an end to The Fed….an end to the aniquated Electoral College…and end to (unConstitutional) foreign aid…closed borders….transparency….etc., etc.
Oh….and a balanced budget every year….no exception.
But we’ll never get these things because it isn’t what THEY want.
Are you beginning to get the picture?
One party pretending to be two….so we THINK we’re getting a choice.
You don’t think so?
Let’s say the ‘D’ party passes a bill that the ‘R’ party, ranting and stomping, says will ruin this country.
So stupid ‘We the People’ vote out the ‘D’s and put in the ‘R’s.
Do the ‘R’s ever go back and repeal that bill they said would ruin our nation?
EVER?
Nope.
NOW are you catching on?
Kepp your temper hot…your blood cold…and your powder dry.
The Dems like to think that they hold all the cards, and the Republican-controlled House has nothing to bargain with. WRONG! The House has the nation’s checkbook. THEY decide who or what gets funded or not. If they had any stones at all, they would have de-funded Obamacare as soon as it came out. They can de-fund DHS/TSA at any time. Even the Senate can’t do that. Yet, they have not and will not. With the exception of a rare few, they are all cowards, more concerned with their own position than anything else. The GOP will, after some face-saving saber-rattling, WILL cave in. This is what they do. The GOP is NOT conservative. They are NOT Reagan-Republicans. My votes and $$ no longer go to the GOP.
Good article, the only thing you didn’t cover was that obutthead is trying to drive us over cliff financially, morally and governmentally. He wants to be king obutthead and he wants society to fail so he can keep himself in power. He can only make this happen with the complete and utter destruction of the American government as we once knew it. He will eventually re-write the Constitution and do away with the Bill of Rights and install what he thinks our rights should be. And he willl use all the stupid people to do it through their support and the support of the elite that stand to profit from his policies.
Sounds just lke Greece doen’t it. I guarantee you, he wants be just like Gadhaffi. He wants to be the ultimate leader with no benevelance at all. He is what we were warned about by Reagan. If we don’t change things in a big way we are doomed as a free America, especially the white male.
He does not worry about any type of attempts on his life, because he knows that everyone will try to protect him, not because they like him, but because they are afraid that if someone assasinates him, it will start a race war.
He knows this and as long as he can use the race card to separate America then he will be safe.
He is using the same game that most dictators use, destroy me and it will destroy you, so out of fear of the unknown or of self destruction we stay compliant to the dictator.
It is not time for us to be fearful, because as cowards we will fall.
Each of us represent our country.
Those of us who serve in the military, medicine, law and politics help others but each is a representative for our country.
Concern yourself with what you say and do and how it helps or hurts others.
It is easy to hate on others but difficult to make a positive difference in the lives of others.
Be kind, accept the things you cannot change and help those closest to you. There is no God greater than truth.