While Congress considers sweeping new legislation to permanently institutionalize the bailouts and federal control of our financial system (right on the heels of their health care takeover, of course) several other sweeping power grabs are going on outside the spotlight of legislative debate. Indeed President Obama seems to believe that most of his sweeping agenda to transform the country can be accomplished without even a vote of Congress. The chart seen above and found here shows what the administration is up to.
As I’ve previously noted here in the Fox Forum, the the EPA is pursuing an aggressive global warming power grab under the direction of White House Climate czar Carol Browner (who was not subject to Senate confirmation), and the FCC is pursuing a regulatory takeover of the Internet.
Both of those efforts are now escalating. The EPA has now finalized its vehicle emissions rule, for the first time regulating global warming under the 1970 Clean Air Act. While EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is trying to calm a political backlash by promising the delay the onslaught of regulations (the overall blueprint is over 18,000 pages and regulates almost everything that moves and lots of things that stay put) she remains committed to them. The Senate will have a key vote on S.J. Res. 26, which would stop the EPA, some time in May.
The FCC was smacked down in court last week in Comcast v. FCC, which held that the Commission has no jurisdiction to regulate the Internet. Yet FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, a close friend of Obama’s, is now considering Internet regulations of an even more extreme nature and by an even more dubious mechanism—reclassifying the Internet as a phone system to regulate it like an old-fashioned public utility.
Read More: By Phil Kerpen, Fox News
Tags: Barack Obama, forcing it through, Radical AgendaAn emboldened President Barack Obama will take a stronger hand with Congress in coming weeks, planning to push lawmakers to pass new regulations for Wall Street by September, the second anniversary of the meltdown, aides tell POLITICO.
The spring offensive, if successful, would allow Obama to claim concrete progress on all of his domestic priorities, despite a "lost year" between the passage of a stimulus package in February 2009 and the signing of health reform last week.
Obama will be pushing a radical agenda this Spring
Some Democratic leaders hope to have financial-regulatory reform on the president’s desk even sooner — by Memorial Day, a timeline the White House considers doable.
During protracted negotiations over the health care bill, Obama was criticized for giving congressional leaders too much leeway and too little direction and for bending too easily to the timetables of Capitol Hill.
Read More: By MIKE ALLEN, Politico
Tags: Obama, Radical Agenda, Spring OffensiveI am honestly confused. Why is it not permissible for us to call President Obama a socialist? Why do so many with a media platform dodge the question when asked point-blank if Obama is a socialist?
While obviously expected from those in the mainstream media who look upon Obama as an oracle, it’s disappointing and disingenuous when Republican “leaders” refuse to describe the president as a socialist.
If the Shoe fits….
Maybe some in the GOP and the mainstream media simply don’t know or understand the definition. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “socialism” as: “Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”
Even with the broadest of interpretations, Obama’s beliefs seem to fall within that definition.
The reason the president recoils from the words “socialist” and “ideologue” is the same reason certain Republican politicians refuse to define him by those names: Political self-interest and survival. It’s the same reason the far-left duplicitously runs from the word “liberal” and now substitutes “progressive.”
Read More: by Douglas MacKinnon, Townhall
Tags: Barack Obama, Radical Agenda, Socialism, SocialistI’ve been out of the country for a couple of days, so let me see if I’ve got this right:
Obama’s radical goals hang in the balance…
America is preparing to celebrate the first anniversary of Good King Barack the Hopeychanger’s reign by electing a Republican?
In Massachusetts?
In what the tin-eared plonkers of the Democrat machine still insist on calling “Ted Kennedy’s seat”?
Remember the good old days when the glossy magazine covers competed for the most worshipful image of the new global colossus? If you were at the Hopeychange inaugural ball on Jan. 20, 2009, when Barney Frank dived into the mosh pit, and you chanced to be underneath when he landed, and you’ve spent the last year in a coma until suddenly coming to in time for the poll showing some unexotically monikered nobody called Scott Brown — whose only glossy magazine appearance was a Cosmopolitan pictorial 30 years ago (true) — four points ahead in Kennedy country, you must surely wonder if you’ve woken up in an alternative universe. The last thing you remember before Barney came flying down is Harry Reid waltzing you round the floor while murmuring sweet nothings about America being ready for a light-skinned brown man with no trace of a Negro dialect. And now you’re in some dystopian nightmare where Massachusetts is ready for a nude-skinned Brown man with no trace of a Kennedy dialect. How can this be happening?
Read More: By Mark Steyn, National Review
Tags: Barack Obama, Massachussetts, Radical Agenda, Scott BrownPresident Barack Obama said many of his priorities depend on one vote in the U.S. Senate, urging Massachusetts voters to back Democrat Martha Coakley in the Jan. 19 race to fill the seat held by the late Edward Kennedy.
Obama’s radical agenda hinges on Massachussetts
“We’ve begun to deliver on the change you voted for,” Obama told a crowd of about 1,500 people at Northeastern University in Boston. “I can’t do it alone. I need leaders like Martha by my side so we can kick it into high gear, so we can finish what we started.”
Obama’s visit underscores Democratic anxiety about the possibility of a history-making Republican victory to claim the Senate seat held for Democrats by Kennedy for 47 years. Obama cited his proposed fee on financial institutions and the Democratic health-care legislation among measures that would be threatened by a Republican victory in Massachusetts.
Polls over the past week showed the race, which had been considered an almost sure-thing for Democrats, tightening to a toss-up. One poll by Boston’s Suffolk University gave Republican state Senator Scott Brown a 4-point lead. The poll’s margin of error was plus-or-minus 4.4 percentage points.
Read More: By Heidi Przybyla and Kate Andersen Brower, Business Week
Tags: Barack Obama, Massachussetts, Radical AgendaToday’s Quinnipiac poll shows that only 36% approve of the way Obama is handling the issue of "creating jobs" while six in ten disapprove. Incidentally, that’s a net 6-point decline for Obama on this question from just one month ago.
Obama doesn’t care what the people want, he wants to push his radical agenda
Forty-seven percent of those surveyed in the Quinnipiac survey – including a majority of Indpendents – say Obama has not spent enough time tending to the economy.
In the most recent CNN poll, the economy is the number one issue of importance to those surveyed by an order of magnitude, as it has been in every poll taken since President Obama entered office. Yet solid majorities in the CNN poll disapprove of the way Obama is handling the economy (54%), unemployment (54%), and the deficit (62%).
Ditto the most recent CBS News/NY Times poll, where 44% say "the economy and jobs" are the most important problem facing the country and 47% disapprove of the way the President is handling the issue of the economy.
After a full year of almost exclusively focusing on health care – an issue that only 10-15% of voters say is most important to them to begin with and only 38.7% of the public now approves of the bills being rammed through Congress - it’s no wonder 50% of voters in both the CNN and the Quinnipiac polls now say they do not believe President Obama shares their views on the issue of most importance to them.
Put another way, President Obama demonstrated during his first year in office that he either didn’t understand the concerns of the electorate or, worse still, he ignored those concerns to pursue his own agenda.
Read More: by Tom Bevan, Real Clear Politics
Tags: Barack Obama, Healthcare, Jobs, Radical AgendaAudacity is supposed to be a talent in great generals — at least some of them. That’s where the phrase comes from: "L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace!" It’s attributed to the Kaiser Friedrich der Grosse, to Georges Danton, (one of the big head-choppers of the French Revolution), and to Napoleon Bonaparte.
Barack Obama is pushing his extreme agenda down our throats
Audacity can be effective in warfare, because surprise assaults can break through a Maginot Line. But another word for audacity is "gambling." The price you often have to pay is overreach and defeat. Napoleon’s audacity led straight to an historic defeat for Imperial France in Russia. France never recovered — it’s had two straight centuries of military defeats since Napoleon. His invasion of Russia also caused unimaginable suffering, just like Hitler’s invasion a century later. Audacity is not necessarily a good thing.
When Obama uses the phrase "The Audacity of Hope," we hope he’s talking about peaceful audacity. But we can’t be sure — because Obama and his inner circle are extremists in any reasonable meaning of that word, certainly by the standards of normal American politics. That’s why Obama seems so foreign. That is what "radical" means; it’s another word for "extremist." These folks love to preen themselves on being radical. Rules for Radicals is their Bible, and it’s Obama’s manual for "community organizing" — which looks just like community destruction. Alinsky dedicated Rules for Radicals to Lucifer, because Lucifer is the symbol of destructive extremism. Don’t tell me these folks are mainstream Americans. No way.
Read More: By James Lewis, American Thinker
Tags: Barack Obama, Extremism, Radical AgendaDick Morris thinks Mob-O-Care is dead after the Democrat electoral fiascos in the last week. I sincerely hope that Morris is right, but I’m not so sure.
The trouble is that Obama and the Democrats have no other game plan — their other ideas, like the suicidal Carbon Tax, are even more likely to get them tossed out of office. Obama’s power has peaked — and judging by the Clinton backlash of 1994, when the GOP won the House for the first time in forty years, it’s downhill from here on out. Nothing in politics is certain, and Obama will certainly try to recover power, as Bill Clinton did in the ’90s. But Obama and his dead-enders have to reckon with the likelihood that they will never have more power than right now.
Obama’s supporters are losing hope, will Obama push forward anyways?
So it’s not out of the question that the Democrats in the House and Senate will go for a kamikaze rush to push MediCoup through Congress as quickly as possible.
It would not be difficult. Normal Americans think we can defeat the “Blue Dog Democrats” at the polls, and that is true. But Obama just has to pick up the phone and tell the Dogs he will guarantee them jobs even if they are defeated. How about Ambassador to Upper Slobbovia? How about a nice job in the Soros Empire? Or in the case of Leon Panetta, how about a university center named after you, and funded by the Feds to study, umm…the art of politics? For the real high flyers like Rahm Emanuel, there’s always a part-time job on the Board of Freddie Mac for several million bucks.
Read More: By James Lewis, American Thinker
Tags: Barack Obama, Bum Rush, Losing support, Radical Agenda
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