By Quin Hillyer on 5.15.09 @ 6:09AM
Change we should be afraid of.
If somebody were deliberately trying to undermine the very fabric
of these United States, he would first vow not just to change its
policies but to completely "change America," and then would do
just about everything Barack Obama already has begun to do as
president.
To undermine this nation, he would
attack the essential sanctity of contracts -- exactly as
Obama has
done. Never mind the "contracts" clause of the Constitution
-- who needs to get hung up on the Constitution's actual language
when "empathy"
is more important?
For that matter, he would denigrate the whole notion of equal
justice under the law by criticizing the whole notion of a judge
as a neutral umpire. And he would employ, as a senator,
outrageous and unprecedented means -- the filibusters of judicial
nominees -- to block judges who don't agree with his own choices
of who deserves more "justice" than whom.
To undermine this nation, he would selectively release only those
portions of intelligence memos that make his nation look bad, but
not those that provide context and reasonable motivations for
the subject of the memos. And he would selectively edit
memos from his own intelligence director to eliminate his
statements in support of the effectiveness of the policies
discussed in those other memos -- and his statements supporting
the motives of those who adopted those policies in protection of
their fellow citizens. And he would leave open the possibility of
prosecuting earlier administration's lawyers merely for giving
legal advice he disagrees with.
To undermine this nation, a president would go on a spending
binge so incredibly wild that annual
deficits and national debt would reach frightening
proportions before most Americans could even absorb the
arithmetic of it all. He would be utterly reckless with our
grandchildren's tax money, but would turn around and achieve
savings -- minor savings at that -- only by cutting or even
gutting defense forces.
He would stop paying for missile defenses. He would stop planning
for forces strong enough to handle two regional wars at once, and
would concentrate only on counterinsurgency needs while hollowing
out our conventional forces. He would repeatedly insult our
closest ally (Great Britain) while kowtowing to enemies such as
Iran, Venezuela, and Nicaraguan communists. He would travel the
world repeatedly apologizing for supposed American sins while
failing to defend the USA from verbal assaults from tinpot
dictators.
He would submit budgets that would eliminate funding for an
already authorized border fence, and nominate
as top lawyer of the State Department a man who openly mocks the
legal underpinnings of American sovereignty. He would
propose raising taxes on corporations, on soft drinks, on
investors, on savers, on the grieving families of dead people, on
small businesses, and on every family that uses public energy
sources.
And worst of all, he would propose unprecedented and underhanded
use of a parliamentary maneuver called "reconciliation" to ease
the way to an irrevocable government takeover of an entire major
sector of the economy -- health care -- without adequate debate
and with firm knowledge that the takeover could lead to serious
health care
rationing and even government-determined
decisions on life and death.
To undermine this nation, he would throw out more than two
centuries of economic freedom in favor of a modern-day version
of Mussolini's economic fascism.
He would refuse to
prosecute vote fraud or even guard against it, while
repeatedly awarding financial grants to organizations such as
ACORN that have been accused of vote fraud on multiple occasions
in multiple states. He would stack his Justice Department with
highly politicized left-wingers. He would fail, until put
directly on the spot, to offer the slightest rebuke to his
hand-picked, ethically compromised Attorney General when said AG
calls his fellow citizens "a nation of cowards."
In short, to undermine the United States, the president would, as
fast as possible, create a massively debt-ridden, tax-ridden,
regulation-ridden government whose prosecutors play political
favorites but whose stances on the world stage are marked by
weakness, self-criticism, and solicitousness towards one's
enemies.
Surely this president has other motives. But even if his
intentions are good, we all know the substance of the pavement on
the road to perdition.
topics:
Barack Obama
