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Comment by Vince Curcio on October 24, 2012 at 5:17pm

Obama's Second Term Transformation Plans

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.

Steve McCann

2012

I would add but 6 words to those above
mentioned, Conservatives, Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt
Romney, to say "and we the American people also", must come to grips
with this moment in time and our role in denying Barack Obama his life
long goal of "transforming" us into his slaves working on his
government plantation.

Please forward this to all you can, maybe together we can save America
for ourselves and those who will follow after us.

God bless America.

Comment by Leanne King on October 24, 2012 at 2:33pm

Let's pack the Ballroom at the World Golf Village.