With the tea parties, summer town hall meetings with the accusations of "staging" on both sides, growing deficit projections, Congressional inability to rein in the executive branch, and increased discussions about the Obama "shadow government headed by his czars," this country is primed for a revolution like never before since the one that begat this Republic.
Do I care? Not really since what will happen will happen, and the Obama White House, due to his inexperience, is forcing the issue where he need not have done due to the 2008 election results; however, when you put an inexperienced politician into the Presidency, you get someone that does not how "pace the reforms," thinking that he has to do everything in the first year of his administration. Had Obama taken his time, slowly implemented the changes for card check, global warming, health care reform, and first amendment curtailments, he would gotten everything under the "frog in boiling water" effect.
What is the frog in the boiling water effect: simply, if you put a frog into boiling water like what Obama is attempting to do with everything too quickly, the frog will jump out of the pan; if, on the other hand, you place the frog in room temperature water, and slowly raise the heat, he will stay in and boil. This is what Obama lacks: common sense.
Now for most of the independents and conservatives this lack of common sense on Obama's part is to their advantage since they will use the 2010 election to duplicate the 1994 mid-term elections by removing his SMDC to check his power to make such sweeping changes. He will then spend his remaining 2 or 6 years saddled with a non-blank check in the Congress.
People in the US realize soon that "elections do have consequences," and when a single party government tries too much like the Republicans did from 1994 to 2006, and the Democrats are now doing, the voters checkmates the White House by doing what the Founding Fathers designed into the Constitution with the "separation of powers."
HOWEVER, one event may stop the "checks-and-balances" from working: if Obama & his COS (chief of staff) make or get their crisis, they will be able to seize power granted by the Emergency Powers claimed by the White House by GW Bush in 2007 reads as follows:
The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive (National Security Presidential Directive NSPD 51/Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-20, sometimes called simply "Executive Directive 51" for short), created and signed by United States President George W. Bush on May 4, 2007, is a Presidential Directive which claims power to execute procedures for continuity of the federal government in the event of a "catastrophic emergency". Such an emergency is construed as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."
This is key to Obama's future for the United States... (more in the next post)
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