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The 2012 election has often been described as the most
pivotal since 1860. This statement is not hyperbole. If Barack Obama is
re-elected the United States will never be the same, nor will it be able to
re-capture its once lofty status as the most dominant nation in the history of
mankind.
The overwhelming majority of Americans do not
understand that Obama's first term was dedicated to putting in place executive
power to enable him and the administration to fulfill the campaign promise of
"transforming America" in his second term regardless of which political party
controls Congress. That is why his re-election team is virtually ignoring the
plight of incumbent or prospective Democratic Party office
holders.
The
most significant accomplishment of Obama's first term is to make Congress
irrelevant. Under the myopic and blindly loyal
leadership of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats have succeeded in
creating an imperial and, in a second term, a potential dictatorial
presidency.
During the first two years of the Obama administration
when the Democrats overwhelming controlled both Houses of Congress and the media
was in an Obama worshipping stupor, a myriad
of laws were passed and actions taken which transferred virtually unlimited
power to the executive branch.
The birth of multi-thousand page laws was not an
aberration. This tactic
was adopted so the bureaucracy controlled by Obama appointees would have sole
discretion in interpreting vaguely written laws and enforcing thousands of pages
of regulations they and not Congress would subsequently
write.
For example, in the 2,700 pages of ObamaCare there are
more than 2,500 references to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. There
are more than 700
instances when he or she is instructed that they "shall" do
something and more than 200 times when they "may" take at their sole discretion
some form of regulatory action. On 139 occasions, the law mentions that the
"Secretary determines." In essence one person, appointed by and reporting to
the president, will be in charge of the health care of 310 million Americans
once ObamaCare is fully operational in 2014.
The same is true in the 2,319 pages of the Dodd-Frank
Financial Reform Act which confers nearly unlimited power on various agencies to
control by fiat the nation's financial, banking and investment sectors.
The bill also creates new
agencies, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, not subject to any
oversight by Congress. This overall process was repeated numerous
times with other legislation all with the intent of granting unfettered power to
the executive branch controlled Barack Obama and his radical
associates.
Additionally, the Obama administration has, through
its unilaterally determined rule making and regulatory powers, created laws out
of whole cloth. The
Environmental Protection Agency on a near daily basis issues new regulations
clearly out of their purview in order to modify and change environmental laws
previously passed and to impose a radical green agenda never approved by
Congress. The same is true of the Energy and Interior Departments
among many others.
None
of these extra-constitutional actions have been challenged by
Congress. The left in America knows this usurpation of power
is nearly impossible to reverse unless stopped in its early
stages.
It is clearly the
mindset of this administration and its appointees that Congress is merely a
nuisance and can be ignored after they were able to take full advantage of the
useful idiots in the Democrat controlled House and Senate in 2009-2010 and the
Democrat Senate in the current Congress.
Additionally, Barack Obama knows after his re-election
a Republican controlled House and Senate will not be able to enact any
legislation to roll back the power previously granted to the Executive Branch or
usurped by them. His veto will not be
overridden as there will always be at least 145 Democratic members of the House
or 34 in the Senate in agreement with or intimidated by an administration more
than willing to use Chicago style political
tactics.
The stalemate between the Executive and Legislative
Branches will inure to the benefit of Barack Obama and his fellow
leftists.
The most significant power Congress has is the control
of the purse-strings as all spending must be approved by them. However, once re-elected, Barack
Obama, as confirmed by his willingness to do or say anything and his
unscrupulous re-election tactics, would not only threaten government shutdowns
but would deliberately withhold payments to those dependent on government
support as a means of intimidating and forcing a Republican controlled Congress
to surrender to his demands, thus neutering their ability to control the
administration through spending constraints.
Further,
this administration has shown contempt for the courts by ignoring various court
orders, e.g. the Gulf of Mexico oil drilling moratorium, as
well as stonewalling subpoenas and requests issued by Congress. The Eric Holder
Justice Department has become the epitome of corruption as part of the most
dishonest and deceitful administration in American history. In a second term
the arrogance of Barack Obama and his minions will become more blatant as he
will not have to be concerned with re-election.
Who will be there to enforce the rule of law, a
Supreme Court ruling or the Constitution? No one. Barack Obama and his
fellow-travelers will be unchallenged as they run roughshod over the American
people.
Many Republicans and conservatives dissatisfied with
the prospect of Mitt Romney as the nominee for president are instead focused on
re-taking the House and Senate. That goal, while worthy and necessary, is
meaningless unless Barack Obama is defeated. The
nation is not dealing with a person of character and integrity but someone of
single-minded purpose and overwhelming narcissism. Judging by his actions,
words and deeds during his first term, he does not intend to work with
Congress either Republican or Democrat in his second term but rather to force
his radical agenda on the American people through the power he has usurped or
been granted.
The governmental structure of the United States was
set up by the founders in the hope that over the years only those people of high
moral character and integrity would assume the reins of power. However,
knowing that was not always possible, they dispersed power over three distinct
and independent branches as a check on each other.
What they could
not imagine is the surrender and abdication of its constitutional duty by the
preeminent governmental branch, the Congress, to a chief executive devoid of any
character or integrity coupled with a judiciary essentially powerless to enforce
the law when the chief executive ignores them.
Conservatives,
Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt Romney must come to grips with this
moment in time and their historical role in denying Barack Obama and his minions
their ultimate goal. All resources must be directed at
that end-game and not merely controlling Congress and the various committee
chairmanships.
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