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Obama's Second Term Transformation Plans
BySteve McCann of American Thinker
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 was 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 worshiping 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.
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.
I want to add only one postscript to this excellent article. I do not disagree with Steve McCann, but while he did a thorough job forecasting the gloom and doom that may be in our future he offered no solutions to the problem. The only way to protect America if Barack Hussein Obama manages to get reelected is to impeach Obama and throw him out of the White House and then put him on trial for his crimes. His list of high crimes and misdemeanors already demand a call for charges of treason. The only thing we need is a strong Republican majority in Congress with the courage to do the right thing.
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