“This is about revenge.”
— Rush Limbaugh
on the policies of President Obama, February 27, 2009
“Voting is the best
revenge.”
— Barack Obama, November 2,
2012
It was the grand leftist experiment.
It was Obama’s Revenge.
A revenge designed to take what Ronald Reagan once called “the
last best hope of man on earth” and, instead, to “transform
America.” A revenge designed to remake a nation founded on
principles of liberty and freedom into a Westernized progressive
utopia. An “Ameritopia” — to borrow from Mark Levin’s
bestseller.
Rush Limbaugh nailed this exactly way back on February 27, 2009.
And now the President himself — in an unscripted moment at a
Friday rally — has made it clear that Rush was right.
Said the President: “Voting is the best revenge.”
In fact, Obama’s Revenge was the latest experiment in a long
line of grand leftist experiments.
Obama’s Revenge has indeed transformed America. Transformed it
in four years to a declining land of soaring poverty, relentless
unemployment, with millions added to the food stamp rolls, the
perpetuation of the race card a regular feature
alonside skyrocketing gas prices and now — in the wake of
Hurricane Sandy — dumpster diving, six-hour gas lines, and an
endless lack of heat and power.
But this transformation was also something else.
Obama’s Revenge was the inevitable conclusion of a presidency
formed in a Voldemortish cauldron. A cauldron seething with a
witch’s brew of poisonous, bubbling anti-American passions gleaned
here and there from far-left Obama mentors from Frank Marshall
Davis to Derrick Bell to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to Bill
Ayers.
The first a Communist. The second a believer in “racial realism”
— racializing every aspect of the law in “Critical Legal Studies.”
The third a proponent of black liberation theology. The fourth a
leader in the in violent 1960’s-era Weather Underground that
believed, as
stated in their manifesto:
The most important task for us toward making the revolution, and
the work our collectives should engage in, is the creation of a
mass revolutionary movement… akin to the Red Guard in China, based
on the full participation and involvement of masses of people… with
a full willingness to participate in the violent and illegal
struggle.
Part of Obama’s Revenge was the old chestnut of Social Justice.
Social Justice, don’t you see? It was about compassion. Justice.
Fairness. Americans paying their fair share.
There were continuous Obama references to the “mess” America was
in on January 20, 2009. But never an admission that the “mess” was
caused by an earlier crusade for Social Justice — that crusade for
Social Justice in housing.
There was no reference to the Social Justice command that was
the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. A law from the Carter
presidency that mandated bank regulators must determine if banks
were serving “the whole” needs of low-income communities. A law
that was followed by the Social Justice commands of the Clinton
Administration — in particular the 1994 National Homeownership
Strategy. This Social Justice gem demanded “financing strategies,
fueled by the creativity and resources of the private and public
sectors, to help homeowners that lack cash to buy a home or to make
the payments.” Those Social Justice strategies appeared — courtesy
of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Can you say “subprime mortgage crisis”? Can you say “American
financial collapse”?
Which is to say the “mess” that Obama inherited was yet another
Social Justice mess. The classic mix of Big Government, Statist
busybodyness flavored with a heavy dose of rich liberal lobbyists.
Or, in the words of New York Times reporter Gretchen
Morgenson in her exposé Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized
Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon,
the Social Justice mentality and its resulting actions that
“finally blew up the American economy.”
How to fix this Social Justice mess?
Why… how else? Create another!
This jewel was, as the President loved to call it “the Recovery
Act.” The stimulus. An $830 billion stimulus. Which is another way
of saying almost one trillion dollars worth of stimulus.
And how was this grand Social Justice scheme supposed to cure
the collapse brought on by the last grand Social Justice scheme? In
the
words of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, the Obama
White House and their Social Justice allies on Capitol Hill
….did what comes naturally and wrote a bill that was all about
transfer payments, temporary tax subsidies, green industrial
policy, homeowner subsidies, 99 weeks of jobless benefits and all
the rest. The spending bonanza benefited every Democratic interest
group — except the Obama voters who wanted jobs and higher
incomes.
Not content with this, Obama moved on to Obamacare —
effectively nationalizing one-sixth of the American economy.
Higher taxes are all set to kick in. The financial cliff looms.
Dodd-Frank has descended on the economy. The EPA has gone wild.
And the results of all of this?
The unemployment rate — which was
promised by the Obama White House to be at 5.2% by this point
in his term — is at 7.9%. On the rise and once again higher than
it was when Obama took office.
Gas prices are through the roof — and going north.
And the Hurricane? The New York Times
crowed on October 29 that “A Big Storm Requires Big
Government.”
They got their wish.
New Yorkers living out Obama’s Revenge are now on the television
news dumpster diving for food, freezing in the cold, waiting — or
standing — in line for six or seven hours for gas. As the dead
literally float on Staten Island.
Frantically Obama and Governors Cuomo of New York and Christie
of New Jersey have gone about suspending every Big Government
roadblock findable.
Over the side goes:
• The Jones Act: a Big Government heritage from
Woodrow Wilson, who signed it into law in 1920. What was the
problem? The Jones Act kept foreign tankers from moving from port
to port in the US. Result — gas is unable to reach the ports of
New York and New Jersey. So Obama waived it.
• New York State Tax Law: Funding New York’s
liberal Big Government in part was a tax on fee on the movement of
fuel oils, accompanied by stiff regulations. Result: the fees and
regulations were keeping gas from gas starved New Yorkers. So Cuomo
cashiered it.
• New Jersey fuel regulations:
These New Jersey regs
have been state Big Government “limitations on the source of fuel
particular and branded fuel retailers are allowed to sell.” Result:
the long gas lines in New Jersey. Christie pitched.
Etcetera. Etcetera. Etcetera.
There are others, but you get the drift. When in trouble… the
first thing that gets pitched over the side is Big Government. When
Americans get really, really mad at the stupidity of Big Government
— the taxes, fees and regulations go over the side faster than you
can say “Ex- President Obama.”
But there’s more here. Something even more important than all of
this horror.
Obama’s Revenge is more than just the litany of failures that
are pushed by Social Justice liberals.
Obama’s Revenge is an attempt to rid America of the fundamentals
of the American founding itself.
To replace those fundamental principles of liberty and freedom
and the Constitution that enshrines them with the latest chapter in
the eternal left-wing search for utopia.
Our friend Mark Levin has written two of the most important
books of the decade,
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto and the
aforementioned
Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America,
These two books explain exactly what is at stake in the 2012
election. In fact, as
recalled here, the reaction to Liberty and Tyranny was
a bellwether for the 2010 anti-Obama landslide.
But why? Why exactly did Mark’s book strike such a chord with
Americans when it appeared in 2009?
The reason is simple.
From the moment the Pilgrims first touched American soil in 1620
until the instant the late Neil Armstrong touched that first step
on the moon in 1969; from the moment the ink dried on the last
signatures of the Declaration of Independence, lighting the fuse of
the American Revolution, to the moment former Navy Seals Ty Woods
and Glen Doherty raced to the Benghazi consulate to try and save
their fellow Americans — the ideal of freedom and liberty has
burned in the American soul.
Liberty and freedom are the very antithesis of what Levin
accurately labeled the Statist’s “insatiable appetite for
control.”
They are ideals that are dangerous to Statists and Social
Justice disciples precisely because they are colorblind and
gender-blind, equal on all accounts for the rich and poor alike.
They are dangerous because they democratize decision making and
demand equal opportunity for all, removing control from the hands
of self-appointed master planners whose friends — think Solyndra
— will profit from what Mitt Romney accurately calls “trickle-down
government.”
In this case, the Obama administration and their cronies are the
very master planners who have cost so many millions in the American
middle class their jobs not to mention their houses — and in
Benghazi, their lives.
Whatever happens this election day in America — no matter who
wins — the battle between those whose Statist, Social Justice
policies have failed so miserably and those who are intent on
keeping America the land of freedom and opportunity so many have
died for, will continue.
Ronald Reagan once noted that
History comes and goes, but principles endure and inspire future
generations to defend liberty, not as a gift from government, but a
blessing from our Creator.
The defense of liberty on this day will take place invisibly, as
it always does. From the small villages of New Hampshire, where
first votes are cast and counted after midnight, to the suburbs,
farms and cities of the greatest nation in human history, the
battle will silently rage.
Reagan also noted, in his first inaugural address that Mark
Levin quotes at the close of
Ameritopia:
“If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we
achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was
because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual
genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before.
Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available
and assured here than any other place on earth. The price for this
freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to
pay that price. It is no coincidence that our present troubles
parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in
our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of
government. It is time for us to realize that we are too great a
nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We’re not, as some would
have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe
in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe
in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”
The Time for Choosing is here.
Liberty — or tyranny?
America? Or Ameritopia?
Obama’s Revenge? Or America’s Challenge?
We will know tonight.
