Haven’t you all figured it out by now? It’s been six months of Groundhog Day with a twist: everyday we wake up to some new piece of jaw-dropping news regarding the short-term tactics and/or long term strategies of this Administration with all having one objective in common.
There have been strategies like
- The Stimulus—ballooning the national debt to ten trillion dollars.
- Cap and Trade—making it more expensive for energy companies to use coal, which, in turn, will make it more expensive for individuals to use energy;
and tactics such as the
- Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to ignore the New Black Panther voter-intimidation case, reminiscent of the bad old days but with the players reversed.
- President Obama’s decision to insert himself in Cambridge, Massachusetts police business and further stir the racial pot.
And the last two examples have occurred in only the past few weeks. President Barack Obama’s January 20, 2009 Inauguration found an America that was financially staggered by a slow-acting congressionally-induced poison called the Community Reinvestment Act and, since that date, the Democrat president, the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate and Democrat-controlled House of Representatives have done everything in their power—and some things far outside of their scope of power--to slip America its death blow.
Oh, you don’t believe that? You think that I’m talking out my nether regions, right? After all, why would anyone hate this country enough to want to destroy it—especially those who are in charge of running it?
This is why. It is obvious that the Left hates freedom and the choices inherent in the concept of freedom—the freedom to chronically lose.
As I’ve said before (heh), losers cannot behave like winners even when they win. They still covet those God-given blessings with which winners are endowed and still must make winners pay for ever having won—for there being such concepts as ‘winning’ and ‘losing’ in the first place. For such people—for President Obama--the God-blessed America is the ultimate villain. ("Naw, naw, naw...God-d*mn America!!!")
I receive an email yesterday from the president’s old campaign site, the title being “This is the Moment.” (Hmm, is there an echo in here?) It is President Obama’s moment indeed: to see if the will of the people can be overridden and if direct access to a blood vessel of the American economy can be opened up by government; direct and legislated access to your money and mine, direct access to our very lives—in order to bleed us.
And if the we the people resist being jacked by the government, if we speak out, we will be ignored first (April 15 and July 4 Tea Parties), then ridiculed with particularly crude sexual references, then demonized. Then come the threats. What will come after that?
Know this: this government wants to control everything about the lives of all American citizens. All of us. And it has set forth the means to do this in all of the legislation that has come before the Senate and the House in this session. (I’m guessing that many of these schemes had long been composed while the authors waited for the right climate to dust them off.) The HealthCare/Health Insurance “Reform”— ObamaCare--is the crowning jewel of government-sanction larceny, however. That’s why the president and his allies in the legislative branch are trying to get it done so fast.
But too many American citizens are objecting to having their pockets picked for this government’s taste. All over the country, people are very vocally objecting to—and even laughing derisively at-- proposed thievery and government-sanctioned tyranny and doing so via more Tea Parties and in Townhall meetings in the face of their shocked Democrat congressional representation and at least one executive branch honcho, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
How dare the serfs not hand over our money and our lives without backtalk!
And, as a result of the vocal assertion of the First Amendment Right to redress the government for grievances, the government has taken its most chilling step yet—at least for today. The White House has created a special informant email address: flag-at-whitehouse-dot-com. About whom are correspondents to inform? Why, about all those who publicly oppose government-run health care and who transmit oppositional information via email or via blogs--which covers almost all Republicans and, judging from the polls and from some videos of townhall meetings, not a few Democrats. See, many of the latter draw the line at their own pockets as well.
I guess what I’m wondering is this: what is the White House going to do with all of the information it gathers from the informants?
What comes next?
(Thanks to Instapundit, to Hot Air and to Jim in Fremont)
ANOTHER DOSE OF POISON: Toxic.
The Obama administration is considering an overhaul of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that would strip billions in bad loans and create a new home-loan organization, according to a report from the Washington Post.
Government officials told the Post that the firms' bad debt would be given to new government financial institutions that would then be responsible for collecting on the debts.
It's the Community Reinvestment Act Revisited. If you're not convinced that Barack Obama is trying to destroy the US economy, you will be. Here's hoping that it isn't too late.
This is beginning to look like a slow-motion coup.
Posted by: Nate Whilk | August 05, 2009 at 09:18 PM
How should I attribute this when I report you to the White House?
Posted by: Samantha | August 05, 2009 at 09:19 PM
By his evil twin sister.
Posted by: baldilocks | August 05, 2009 at 09:25 PM
LOL. Will do.
Posted by: Samantha | August 05, 2009 at 09:35 PM
Very good post. I wish you had the time and energy to post more often.
Posted by: Buford Gooch | August 05, 2009 at 10:54 PM
"new government financial institutions that would then be responsible for collecting on the debts."
Hmm. Wonder how that's supposed to work?
Posted by: notropis | August 06, 2009 at 01:17 AM
I've been waiting for the "organized" resistance.
There is only one organization with the resources to focus (and benefit from) the wrath of people like us. And they are dead in the water. Granted it would give a "partisan" spin to things, but I have nowhere to rally, protest, join with others in resisting this takeover of our government.
I never thought it would be like this, where the POTUS is the threat!
Michael Steele has said he has something in the works, and he doesn't want to telegraph the punch. What? There's a groundswell and it's getting frustrated.
I live in Michigan. I have no hope that a letter to my senators will overcome their allegiance to the vested interests that put them there. But rallies in the streets might give them some cover to breal away.
Posted by: Ed Bonderenka | August 06, 2009 at 04:41 AM
This country is full of Lawyers why are no law suits being brought against this Administration questioning the constitutionality of what they are doing? I always enjoy reading baldilocks here or on hot air.
Tonight on Fox News at 9:00 PM Eastern, 8:00 Central. Sean Hannity airs his visit to the Imus Ranch For Children With Cancer and Blood Disorders.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/08/sean-hannity-imus-ranch-special-tonight.html
Posted by: Ree | August 06, 2009 at 03:20 PM
Overall I agree, but until someone shows me how the CRA authorized the creation mortgage bundling and credit default swaps, which trace directly back to a subsidiary of A.I.G., then placing the blame on the CRA is hogwash.
Posted by: negronova | August 06, 2009 at 06:07 PM
negronova:
The understanding I have come to is that the credit-craziness that was set loose with credit-default swaps, re-selling Mortgage-Backed Securities, etc., wasn't directly enabled by the CRA.
But, the CRA was a necessary fuel for that particular fire.
Keep in mind that the low interest rates provided by Greenspand & co. were another necessary fuel for that fire. If one or the other had been missing, things would have turned out differently.
Like fire, the CDS/MBS interactions and the leveraging of assets was a fearsome servant that needed to be tamed. But when it became master, it was a terrible master.
Posted by: karrde | August 06, 2009 at 07:30 PM
But, the CRA was a necessary fuel for that particular fire
Given most of the subprime loans were done by companies not under the CRA, I don't hold your comment as true.
Posted by: negronova | August 07, 2009 at 07:35 PM