May 8, 2012
By Steve McCann
The
2012 election has often been described as the most pivotal since 1860.
This statement is not hyperbole. If Barack Obama is re-elected the
United States will never be the same, nor will it be able to re-capture
its once lofty status as the most dominant nation in the history of
mankind.
The
overwhelming majority of Americans do not understand that Obama's first
term was dedicated to putting in place executive power to enable him
and the administration to fulfill the campaign promise of "transforming
America" in his second term regardless of which political party controls
Congress. That is why his re-election team is virtually ignoring the
plight of incumbent or prospective Democratic Party office holders.
The
most significant accomplishment of Obama's first term is to make
Congress irrelevant. Under the myopic and blindly loyal leadership of
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats have succeeded in creating an
imperial and, in a second term, a potential dictatorial presidency.
During
the first two years of the Obama administration when the Democrats
overwhelming controlled both Houses of Congress and the media was in an
Obama worshipping stupor, a myriad of laws were passed and actions taken
which transferred virtually unlimited power to the executive branch.
The
birth of multi-thousand page laws was not an aberration. This tactic
was adopted so the bureaucracy controlled by Obama appointees would have
sole discretion in interpreting vaguely written laws and enforcing
thousands of pages of regulations they and not Congress would subsequently write.
For example, in the 2,700 pages of ObamaCare there are more than 2,500 references to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. There are more than 700 instances
when he or she is instructed that they "shall" do something and more
than 200 times when they "may" take at their sole discretion some form
of regulatory action. On 139 occasions, the law mentions that the
"Secretary determines." In essence one person, appointed by and
reporting to the president, will be in charge of the health care of 310
million Americans once ObamaCare is fully operational in 2014.
The
same is true in the 2,319 pages of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act
which confers nearly unlimited power on various agencies to control by
fiat the nation's financial, banking and investment sectors. The bill
also creates new agencies, such as the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau, not subject to any oversight by Congress. This overall process
was repeated numerous times with other legislation all with the intent
of granting unfettered power to the executive branch controlled Barack
Obama and his radical associates.
Additionally,
the Obama administration has, through its unilaterally determined rule
making and regulatory powers, created laws out of whole cloth. The
Environmental Protection Agency on a near daily basis issues new regulations
clearly out of their purview in order to modify and change
environmental laws previously passed and to impose a radical green
agenda never approved by Congress. The same is true of the Energy and
Interior Departments among many others.
None
of these extra-constitutional actions have been challenged by Congress.
The left in America knows this usurpation of power is nearly
impossible to reverse unless stopped in its early stages.
It
is clearly the mindset of this administration and its appointees that
Congress is merely a nuisance and can be ignored after they were able to
take full advantage of the useful idiots in the Democrat controlled
House and Senate in 2009-2010 and the Democrat Senate in the current
Congress.
Additionally,
Barack Obama knows after his re-election a Republican controlled House
and Senate will not be able to enact any legislation to roll back the
power previously granted to the Executive Branch or usurped by them.
His veto will not be overridden as there will always
be at least 145 Democratic members of the House or 34 in the Senate in
agreement with or intimidated by an administration more than willing to
use Chicago style political tactics.
The stalemate between the Executive and Legislative Branches will inure to the benefit of Barack Obama and his fellow leftists.
The
most significant power Congress has is the control of the purse-strings
as all spending must be approved by them. However, once re-elected,
Barack Obama, as confirmed by his willingness to do or say anything and
his unscrupulous re-election tactics, would not only threaten government
shutdowns but would deliberately withhold payments to those dependent
on government support as a means of intimidating and forcing a
Republican controlled Congress to surrender to his demands, thus
neutering their ability to control the administration through spending
constraints.
Further,
this administration has shown contempt for the courts by ignoring
various court orders, e.g. the Gulf of Mexico oil drilling moratorium,
as well as stonewalling subpoenas and requests issued by Congress. The
Eric Holder Justice Department has become the epitome of corruption as
part of the most dishonest and deceitful administration in American
history. In a second term the arrogance of Barack Obama and his
minions will become more blatant as he will not have to be concerned
with re-election.
Who
will be there to enforce the rule of law, a Supreme Court ruling or the
Constitution? No one. Barack Obama and his fellow-travelers will be
unchallenged as they run roughshod over the American people.
Many
Republicans and conservatives dissatisfied with the prospect of Mitt
Romney as the nominee for president are instead focused on re-taking the
House and Senate. That goal, while worthy and necessary, is
meaningless unless Barack Obama is defeated. The nation is not dealing
with a person of character and integrity but someone of single-minded
purpose and overwhelming narcissism. Judging by his actions, words and
deeds during his first term, he does not intend to work with Congress
either Republican or Democrat in his second term but rather to force his
radical agenda on the American people through the power he has usurped
or been granted.
The
governmental structure of the United States was set up by the founders
in the hope that over the years only those people of high moral
character and integrity would assume the reins of power. However,
knowing that was not always possible, they dispersed power over three
distinct and independent branches as a check on each other.
What
they could not imagine is the surrender and abdication of its
constitutional duty by the preeminent governmental branch, the Congress,
to a chief executive devoid of any character or integrity coupled with a
judiciary essentially powerless to enforce the law when the chief
executive ignores them
Conservatives,
Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt Romney must come to grips
with this moment in time and their historical role in denying Barack
Obama and his minions their ultimate goal. All resources must be
directed at that end-game and not merely controlling Congress and the
various committee chairmanships.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/obamas_second_term_transformation_plans.html#ixzz1vw9CfMcD
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