Friday, February 13, 2015
Frightening Thoughts for Friday the 13th
President Obama is inching up the number of US ground troops - and Special Forces - in Iraq without ever explaining what his Middle East strategic plan is, or whether he even has one. ~~~~~ The US Congress is celebrating the passage of the Keystone XL Pipeline bill, even though the members know that Obama is going to veto it. ~~~~~ ISIS has taken control of the western Iraq town of Al-Baghdadi, which is near a US Air Force Base. ~~~~~ Congress has been in session for a month and not one bill or committee meeting concerning tax reform or budget balancing has appeared - if Paul Ryan didn't exist, no one would care about either the budget or tax reform. ~~~~~ Obama is using executive orders to drastically overhaul the Internet, the core communication medium in America, and no one in Congress has thus far expressed the slightest concern. ~~~~~ The Senate GOP majority members cannot agree among themselves on a strategy to overturn the hugely unpopular and dangerous Obama executive orders on protecting 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation. ~~~~~ Obama wants to send strategic lethal defensive weapons to the Ukraine government, a step that will raise the level of the West's confrontation with Russia, although he insists the US will not become militarily involved in the country because he doesn't want to risk a war with Russia. ~~~~~ Obama will not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu while he is in Washington, but Obama is willing let his Secretary of State meet with Iran officials to ease the way for Iran to build nuclear weapons that would be aimed at Israel. ~~~~~ There is still no GOP plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. ~~~~~ Obama has sent to Congress a request for authorization for military action in the Middle East that he and the entire Congress know cannot get enough votes to pass - is he trying to make the GOP re-draft the authorization giving the military and President greater powers than Obama has asked for so that he can later blame the GOP when, not if, Obama's undeclared war in Iraq escalates and the inevitable US troops on the ground must be sent in. ~~~~~ The only Republican who matches Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential polls - Mitt Romney - has been driven out of the race by his fellow GOPers and fund-raisers who think someone else ought to be given a chance -- a chance to what??? Lose??? Let's get real, GOP, or get out of the way and let a new party that actually wants to win have "a chance." ~~~~~ Dear readers, if these items aren't enough to frighten you on Friday the 13th, consider this -- we have 700 days of the dysfunctional, distrusted, dishonest Obama presidency left.
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Friday the 13th aside, I think we, the GOP, will win in 2016 even without Mitt Romney.
ReplyDeleteI HOPE for the election of a republican comes November 2016. Do I think that is what will occur? Whole other question.
DeleteThe GOP is demonstrating a real serious lack of winning leadership. Let’s assume that Mitt Romney is out of the picture as a nominee for 2016. Right now today who that leave that has demonstrated leadership, strong republican believes, morality in his own life, and ethics that he is willing to stand by … Gov. Scott Walker… and ex-governors make the best presidents.
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." – John Adams (1814)
ReplyDeleteCan we possibly survive 700 days of this out of control madman? I don’t think so
ReplyDeleteThere may always be a United Sates of America … but the form is what is bothering to me. It will NEVER be the institution of self-government and freedoms that came ashore at Plymouth, Mass on September 16, 1620 with 102 of the bravest souls to ever set out to change their plight.
The Obama administration is indifferent to Americans’ safekeeping. In a memorandum distributed to U.S. sheriffs last week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson threatened that if Congress blocks the president’s executive action to legalize five million illegal immigrants, funding for their grants that are used to protect citizens will be denied.
DeleteThe only way to interpret Johnson’s memo is that the Obama administration puts the priorities of unlawful immigrants above the nation’s safety.
We’re still being fooled into thinking that politics matter and that there’s a difference between the Republicans and Democrats, when in fact, the two parties are exactly the same. As one commentator noted, both parties support endless war, engage in out-of-control spending, ignore the citizenry’s basic rights, have no respect for the rule of law, are bought and paid for by Big Business, care most about their own power, and have a long record of expanding government and shrinking liberty.
ReplyDeleteSo why do any of us stay? Why do any of us continue to put up with the gut-wrenching, soul-sucking, misery-drenched, demoralizing existence that is America today? Why?
Perhaps I stay because I was raised to believe that anything worth having is worth fighting for, and I believe with every fiber of my being that freedom matters. In fact, I come from a long line of Americans who understood that there is a price to be paid for freedom.
Perhaps I soldier on because I remember what it was like to grow up at a time when the only surveillance I had to worry about were the neighbors who reported back to my mother whenever I did something wrong, and I desperately want my grandchildren to experience that kind of carefree existence. I want them to know that there’s more to life than metal detectors, lockdowns, random searches and pre-crime units trying to nab them for a crime if they dare step out of line.
Most of all, perhaps I keep fighting on because I’m just not ready to give up on America… at least, not yet. But 700 days under this administration is more than a walk in the woods.
The Congressional GOP leadership is a prime example of the “Peter Principal.” And therefore the GOP will never flourish again as it did in the days of Regan and/or Lincoln, because as one old Peter Principal practitioner dies off or is finally voted out by his constituents another ideology of the “PP” steps in to carry on the hopelessness .
ReplyDelete“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
ReplyDelete― Ronald Reagan