Inside story of Obama’s struggle to keep Congress from controlling outcome of debt ceiling crisis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... print.html
Yet another reason Obama MUST go. There is only ONE way that will happen: a Romney victory. No third party candidate is going to save the day.
Obama has had a big post convention bounce in the polls, and is currently leading Romney by a bigger margin than Romney had over Obama prior to the convention. This would not be the first time such a thing happened. Carter, Dukakis, and Kerry each led their republican opponents by significant margins after their respective DNCs and still ended up losing the elections. But this isn't something you want to take for granted. There is no room for mercy in this election cycle.
We already know the direction that Obama wants to take this nation.....the European model. But in addition to the usual "greeks rioting over austerity measures" headline this morning, there is another one:
Associated Press
SEEKING GROWTH, UK TAKES AX TO BUSINESS REGULATION
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's government says it will scrap hundreds of regulations affecting businesses, in the hope of boosting the country's lackluster economy.
Business Secretary Vince Cable announced Monday that firms would be made exempt from up to 3,000 health and safety laws and other regulations.
"Businesses need to focus all their energies on creating jobs and growth," Cable said.
So, major portions of Britain's failing European economic model are being suddenly scrapped to keep their business sector afloat—which is a MAJOR admission of the failure of the model. The struggling/failing economies of the EU are the canary in the coal mine. Meanwhile, as european leaders are coming to grasp with this and (some are) beginning to make structural changes to offset the depleted oxygen and increasing poisons in the coal mine's atmosphere,
Obama continues to try and herd us pell-mell toward that fiscal cliff.
Now, shame on any Americans who are not right now making preparations for a total economic collapse in order to safeguard their families, but even for those of us who are making such efforts, is this REALLY the world you want? Wouldn't it be far better to NOT have to make use of those preparations?
So, one of the things we can do to stave off this kind of collapse so that we
don't have to resort to "survival mode" is to exercise political responsibility. If you're a farmer looking for a horse to pull your plow, and you are offered the alternative choices of a thoroughbred which is beautiful to behold and perfect in all points of its conformation on one hand, and a percheron with a rough coat, a shabby tail, and an ugly roman nose on the other hand, are you going to buy the perfect thoroughbred, or the rough and ready plow horse? The former is the more perfect and more noble looking horse with the greater appeal to your sensibilities. The latter is the humbler one with experience in front of a plow, actually
producing benefit for the people who hitch their plow to it. Both may be good horses, but one is better for the task. One is better suited for riding, the other is better suited for pulling.
To the libertarians here: Ron Paul or Gary Johnson may be your thoroughbred, but Mitt Romney is your plow horse. This is not a time in history when you or anybody else can afford the luxury of hitching your plow to a thoroughbred. Nobody
rides a leader. Leaders pull from the front. Like a plow horse.
Mitt Romney is the plow horse. He has an imperfect record (as do the more libertarian candidates, by the way), but he has lived a life of service. He accepted no salary as governor of Massachusetts. Can Ron Paul or Gary Johnson say the same? He gave away his inheritance from his wealthy father to charity because he is a self-made man. There are only four people on the entire planet who have the chance of appointing the next 2 or 3 SCOTUS justices: Obama, Biden (if Obama dies in office), Romney (if elected), and Ryan (if elected and Romney dies in office). Ron Paul will NEVER have that chance. Gary Johnson will NEVER have that chance. Those are just statistical facts which are incontrivertable.
You may not like Romney's record. There is some of it
I don't like. But I am a realist. One of those 4 men will put the next 2 or 3 justices onto the SCOTUS bench. Elections have consequences. Obama has pledged to nominate judges whose record of activism is in keeping with his own. Romney has pledged to nominate conservative justices who will uphold the Constitution. Obama has the NRA's full throated condemnation. Romney has the NRA's full throated support. (And by the way, the NRA supported Romney's actions in Massachusetts regarding their AWB
exactly for the same reasons that I have outlined in previous posts: that he had no choice in the matter, and so the only responsible thing was to mitigate it as much as possible by getting the language changed to make things better for concealed carry license holders. In other words, he did the responsible thing.)
The point is, this election will have long-lasting, perhaps even permanent consequences, extending well past 2016 or 2020. The future of the nation as we know it today is at stake, and so is the future possibility of returning it to what it once was before progressivism damaged it so badly. Despite protests to the contrary, the math does not work when it comes to third party/protest voting in this election. To vote for anyone other than Mitt Romney, no matter how much you want to deny it, is to be OK with the consequences of an Obama victory.
I am not OK with that. You should not only not be OK with that, you should be willing to put your pride aside to make sure that it cannot happen.
