Rush Limbaugh has made it very clear that he wants BHO’s socialist policies to fail because that would destroy the Amercian economy and our capitalist way of life. Whether you agree with him or not, that’s what he said, and his exact “in-context” comments are easily accessible for listening or viewing. The out of context diatribe against him is just more personal destruction and obfuscation from the liberal/socialist/Marxist left.
But what does the poll taken in 2006 reveal to us. The issue that resonates throughout GWB’s term and that for which his administration will be most remembered will be for the war in Iraq and the war on Terror. So 51% of Democrats, which would include virtually the entire Democratic congressional delegation, wanted GWB to fail. What that says is that they wanted the mission of the armed forces to fail, they wanted the soldiers and Marines to fail, and in order to fail they would obviously be either killed or harmed. But 51% favored that outcome. It’s amazing but true that Democrats in 2006 had a choice between GWB and Al Qaeda……….and they picked Al Qaeda.
Now that’s disgusting.
Flashback: 2006 Poll Showed Most Democrats Wanted Bush to Fail An August 2006 poll conducted by FOX News/Opinion Dynamics showed 51 percent of Democrats did not want Bush to succeed. Rush Limbaugh took a lot of heat for saying he wants President Obama to fail — but a lot of Democrats felt the same way about former President George W. Bush during his second term. An August 2006 poll conducted by FOX News/Opinion Dynamics showed 51 percent of Democrats did not want Bush to succeed. Thirty-four percent of independents also did not want Bush to succeed. By comparison, 90 percent of Republicans said at the time that they wanted Bush to succeed, and 40 percent of Democrats said the same. Conservative radio talk show host Limbaugh says he doesn’t want the economy to fail — just Obama’s policies. But his comments last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference drew sharp criticism from the White House. After CPAC, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that Limbaugh’s stance was the “wrong philosophy for America.”
So now the president has given himself the power to cap greenhouse gases. He also apparently has the power to tell private companies how much they can pay their workers. He can also nationalize the banks, nationalize health care, and nationalize the auto industry. The president can tell each of the 50 states he’s going to order electrical lines to be pulled over any land he wants and they can just shove it if they don’t like it.
The president can attack any private citizen he wants, by name, and can get the mainstream media to do all the dirty work for him. The president can dictate what kind of cars are going to be made and by whom. The president can manipulate the census to say anything he wants it to say. The president can demand that governors take stimulus bailout money whether they want to or not. The president can steal my income, redistribute it to anyone he wants and use “doublespeak” to call it a “tax cut.”
The president can marginalize virtually every cabinet department, whose chief is accountable to the American people, by installing “czars” for almost everything directly in the White House. There’s a car czar, an energy czar, a health czar, a banking czar, an education czar, and on and on and these people are accountable only to the president because they’re chosen outside the Advise and Consent provisions of the Constitution.
The president can tell you which light bulb you can use, how many times you can flush, what temperature you can keep your house, and on and on.
NONE of this is allowable under the Constitution of the United States. None of it. This is all unconstitutional. The president is not a king or dictator. He does not have this kind of power under the Constitution yet it’s all being done without as much as a whimper. Why?
Because this is what you get when you install a “living Constitution” where there are no rules, they’re just made up as we go. This is an abomination to the Constitution written and ratified in 1787.
Here’s a scenario: What if the Dow drops to like 3000 or less (and that could definitely happen) and BHO goes on television and says this is so bad he’s going to ask Congress to allow him to nationalize all private industry in the country and maybe even set up martial law with a 10:00pm curfew throughout the country. And Congress votes to give him that power because, you know, there’s a national emergency. And by a 5 to 4 vote the Supreme Court says it’s all “Constitutional”. Then it’s over. And just such a thing can happen because there are essentially no checks and balances and we have a “living Constitution”.
None of this is Constitutional my friends. We’re losing our wealth. We’re losing our country.
The attached Business Week link is a pretty good discussion of the market and all that, and it paints a very bleak picture. Unfortunately it’s pretty long and requires more than just a few minutes to read. But if you want to know stuff you should read it.
But of course I have my own analysis which is this: BHO doesn’t give a hoot if the market goes further down and in fact the further down it goes the better. Through all of his words and speeches he has attacked capitalism, business, free markets and everything that makes our country work and has done everything he can to pit one class against another. All of his actions and policies to date are anti-business and anti-job creators. This is capitalism v. socialism and he’s a socialist.
The further down the market goes the greater the panic in the streets and the more people will “demand action”, any action to make the pain stop. Once everyone has suffered tremendous loss of wealth they’ll “need the government” to tend to their needs and desires since they won’t be able to afford anything themselves. This is BHO’s strategy. It’s no accident that the market is being destroyed. Will we break below 6000? Would you bet it won’t?
By raising taxes on all business, big and small, and by threatening nationalization of industries he has made the free market environment so unstable that no investor or business would risk hiring anyone, or expanding a factory, or spending money on R & D or any of the other stuff that makes capitalism work.
Destroying business, coupled with destroying personal wealth, will make it necessary for the “government” to step in and take over. Welcome to Cuba!
I know you think I’ve lost it, but doesn’t this make sense? Why else is all of this happening?
There should definitely be hearings into the entire financial crisis and how it happened and who was involved and what were the warning signs and when were they seen and by whom and who made warnings and who refused to head warnings and all of it and on and on………….but only if members of Congress are included and they have to testify under oath. If not it’ll be just a big show trial in the tradition of the USSR, China, Cuba and all the rest.
Either everyone testifies under oath, including members of Congress, past or present, or forget it. What say you?
Usually we help rebuild a country AFTER the war is over. Even now Hamas fires missiles indiscriminately into Israel every day but we’re going to now rebuild the destruction reined down on them because of their lawless behavior. I’m sure there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
This is like helping rebuild Germany in 1943 in the hopes the good Nazis could help us get the bad Nazis to stop shooting. Good luck with that!