If you’re a conservative, you should probably prepare yourself for the onset of the GOP’s Season of Surrender. It’s already well under way. The outrageous “recess”appointments are now in the rear view mirror after some feeble griping by Republican congressional leadership. As Rush Limbaugh notes, even Republicans “experts” are saying “Oh not a big deal; a “minor’ agency; a hill not worth dying on”. Obama, consequently, now is merrily campaigning as his Consumer Finance Protection Agency head rapidly organizes the agency.
And wait ’til we see what the new NLRB does to further the union agenda even more!
Obama, having gutted the military on Thursday while claiming huge cuts will not, in any way diminish the effectiveness of our armed forces in protecting national security heads out to the stump demanding that Congress pass another “jobs” bill.
Coming up, of course, is the debt reduction issue which our GOP leaders have been so adept at losing and looking like fools how many times already?
Who is betting Republicans will have any success in getting the Canadian oil pipeline?
And who can recall the succession of unaccountable czars who have done so much damage to the economy and our political system. As each was named and as recess appointments…let’s not forget Berwick, Elizabeth Warren, the NLRB chairman…Republicans, each time, fumed for a day or so and then decided “Oh well….”. And remember that “do nothing Congress? The one that refused to pass a budget in defiance of toothless law (oops! that was a Democrat “do nothing” Congress and Senate)?
And, oh yes, anybody hear much anymore about Solyndra, “Fast and Furious”,MF Global’s Corzine as the Obama administration go to guy for financial advice?
And who among us recalls our foreign policy “successes” under Obama…the “reset” of relations with Russia; Hilary dubbing Syria’s Assad as a “true reformer’; America’s “extended hand to Iran rather than a “clenched fist”; and how much more stable and peaceful the Middle East is and how much more the Muslim world loves America??
Day by day, outrage by outrage, each time stretching further its lawless behavior, the GOP response to the Obama regime is the same: issue a press release, make a statement, announce a congressional hearing (which is often ignored by both the administration and the press) and go on defending itself against charges of “partisanship”. as our nation”slouches” toward dictatorship, tyranny, totalitarianism.
But what can be done?
A suggestion: DON’T BE AFRAID TO LOOK REID AND OBAMA IN THE EYE AND SHUT THE ENTIRE SYSTEM DOWN IF NEED BE. Use the action as the vehicle to make a case for stopping the day by day shredding of the Constitution. Mere posturing isn’t going to accomplish anything.
We know . . . there is nothing Republicans fear more than being accused of “shutting down the government.” But, if this administration’s accelerating dismantling of our Republic’s system of government does not justify the most dramatic action that can be taken, then what would?
Our country is broke and yet Obama says we must spend more, while he lies about the true cost of what he has already done. (There is a Vietnam era anti-war, anti-military ballad titled “The Big Muddy” by, I believe, Pete Seger. Lyrics include a condemnation of the cruel drill sergeant pushing recruits through swamp maneuvers as a metaphor for persisting in the lost cause of war; “waist deep in the Big Muddy, and the fool says, ‘push on!’”. How appropriate to apply this to Mr. Obama)
Just come on home and try to find a job,, Congress. DLH
