By Alan Caruba
Barack Hussein Obama promised to transform America with an
ill-defined message of change during his 2008 campaign. As Americans
discovered what that change involved, they began to reject it. It was a
change to the Left, to liberalism, to socialism.
The first sign of rejection was the 2010 election when voters
returned power in the House of Representatives to Republicans. Since the
2006 midterm elections that gave the Democratic Party a sweeping
victory and elevated Nancy Pelosi as the first woman to become Speaker
of the House, Americans have had an opportunity to experience the
liberal agenda and they don’t like it.
They
didn’t like the way Obama wasted 2009 on pushing his socialization of
one sixth of the nation’s economy with Obamacare, a bill then-Speaker
Pelosi told voters that the bill would have to be passed so they “could
see what was in it.” Soon enough the Supreme Court will render a
decision on its constitutionality and the likely outcome is that it will
be struck down.
The voters didn’t like Obama’s massive “stimulus” redistribution of
their taxes that included a bailout of General Motors and Chrysler that
could have been avoided by simply allowing them to go through the normal
process of bankruptcy and restructuring. Instead, Obama screwed their
creditors, normally the first in line to be compensated for their
losses, and gave the auto unions a seat on the auto companies’ boards of
directors, erasing the line between management and unions.
Recall,
too, that the 2006 elections reflected the dissatisfaction of voters
with the long years of wars in Afghanistan and, in particular, in Iraq.
When the financial crisis hit in 2008, just before the national
elections, combined with the unalloyed worship of a completely unknown
Illinois Senator, the outcome was the election of Obama.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Now the shame
of the failure to address the financial crisis in time-tested and
proven ways is Obama’s. He could have cut taxes. Instead he pushed for
an end to the Bush tax cuts and talked endlessly about raising taxes on
“millionaires and billionaires.” In point of fact, his tax programs were
and are aimed at the middle class. He could have cut government
spending.
Instead he increased it with all manner of phony schemes such
as “cash for clunkers.”
Since 2009, Obama has added four trillion dollars to the nation’s
debt and has presided over the first, historic downgrade of America’s
triple-A credit rating. The continuing news of taxpayer losses in his
administration’s disastrous “investments” in solar and other “clean
energy” firms that continue to fail has added to the clear perception of
an ideologically driven agenda that is out of touch with reality.
The victory of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, barely five months
before the forthcoming November elections, is yet another reason to
celebrate the rejection of Obama and his policies that have given the
nation 42 months of an unemployment rate that is unprecedented since the
Great Depression. Gov. Walker’s election signals the decline of the
union movement and his reforms resulted in tens of thousands of union
members choosing to leave the unions in Wisconsin.
The realization that unions, in particular the public service unions,
have raped the public coffers of states, marks a turning point that
will result in reforms that will greatly aid recovery. The millions the
union movement poured into the defeat of Gov. Walker are millions that
have been diverted from Obama’s reelection.
USA Today reported that “The residents of only nine states
have returned their economies to the level that existed before the
downturn struck at the end of 2007—and most of those states are energy
producers.”
The nation runs on the energy that the oil, coal, natural
gas, and nuclear provide. Obama has waged a war on oil and coal in
particular and the public has taken notice of how insane this policy has
been.
The outcome of the Wisconsin elections has not been lost on the
Democratic Party. It will now be in full panic mode and Americans will
be subjected to a campaign of lies intended to distract and deceive
them.
Obama can no longer blame former President Bush for his failures,
cannot blame events in Europe, and cannot blame Mother Nature. He has
only himself to blame. Voters from the Left to the Right know this.
Except for the hardcore liberal base and the mainstream media, the rest
are ready to reject Obama.
Canada Free Press
