Roger Kimball nails what Obama is all about:
…it would be wrong to infer that the so-called stimulus package was for naught. It really is bearing fruit. It’s just not the fruit that Obama promised. To appreciate this, you have to understand what the real — as distinct from the announced — purposed of the stimulus package was. It was not, as Sowell points out, “to get that money out into the economy as fast as possible.” On the contrary, the real purpose, Sowell explains,
was to get that money — and the power that goes with it — into the hands of the government. Power is what politics is all about.
More money and power in the hands of government officials, less money and power in the hands of individuals. That’s the real Obama ticket. Or, rather, it’s part of the real Obama ticket. For what we seeing playing out in domestic affairs is also going on in the international arena. What Obama is doing to us as individuals he is also endeavoring to do to America as a whole: to render it less powerful, less “exceptional,” more part of a housebroken collective.
For Obama and his Democrats, the whole purpose of all efforts is to secure more power over our day to day lives. They want us to lose our ability to make the major decisions of our lives – where we’ll work, what we’ll learn, how much money we’ll have, where we’ll live, what sort of transportation we’ll use…all of this, and more, Obama and his Democrats want control over. The only thing they’ll consign to our authority is the ability to get laid, as long as we have access to birth control and abortion (’cause they don’t want too many of us running around). Liberals are tired of pussy-footing around with all this American nonsense – they want us under control so that they can crush what they consider evil (ie, what we consider to be good about America) and turn us in to what we should be (ie, a carbon-copy of Europe…while, for some of them, a carbon-copy of Cuba would be better).
With victory this past November, liberalism feels it won for good and all – that there is no going back. They want to ram through as much as they can right now because they are smart enough to know that there will be a backlash in 2010 and, perhaps, 2012; but that is of small consequence…with more and more Americans dependent upon government, liberals figure they are bound to return swiftly to power…and, meanwhile, Obama will have overseen the hiring of hundreds of thousands of new government employees…people chosen for their political views and willingness to toe the liberal line. Even if a GOP Administration enters power, liberals figure they’ll control the day to day sufficient to prevent a radical, conservative overhaul.
And so, its the power, stupid – they have it and intend to use it to destroy the America we love, so that they can replace it with an America they’ll love (that it will be poor and nasty won’t matter to them – they’ll keep themselves well privileged and living the high life). Our goal then must be to wrest it from them – and I mean, all of it. We have to not just win the next election or two, but once we’ve won, we have to enact sufficient protections to prevent a future liberalism from usurping our rights.
We need to enshrine in our Constitution specific protections for what was protected in general – write in there, for instance, a securing of religious liberty in the public square. Make it so plain that only a clear overthrow of our government will permit liberalism to be imposed. We have to run through the whole bureaucracy and root out those who are determined to effect policy rather than carry out Administration orders – it is elected officials who set policy, not life-long bureaucrats, all too often hired and promoted on the basis of their subservience to liberal dogma. We have to reform the Courts – taking away from them their ability to usurp the rights of the States, or the people. We have to de-fund the left – take away all those massive taxpayer subsidies of what amounts to nothing more than leftist political propaganda (just why do we give taxpayer money to a group like Planned Parenthood? Might as well provide taxpayer funds for NARAL, while we’re at it…).
Up and down and backwards and forwards – our goal is not just to win a particular election, but to entirely break down the power of liberalism. Force them back on their heels; force them in to a rear-guard action to retain the tatters of power; force them to compromise with us just for a chance of a seat at the table. In short – remake America in to the constitutional republic our Founders intended and by so doing completely nullify the evils liberalism has imposed over the past century.
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