Apocalypse Blues

Joshuapundit

Charles Krauthammer warns us that the first act of Barack Hussein Obama's radical restructuring of America is over, but the second act is set to begin after 2012.

As Krauthammer sees it, Obama is a political mastermind who sees 2012 as the real prize and has pretty much accomplished all he can accomplish in his first term. He advises Republicans not to break out the champagne and underestimate Obama. He has a point, if an overstated one will a few flaws in it.

True enough..Obama has managed to shove through ObamaCare , a bogus trillion dollar stimulus and now financial 'reform'. All in all, it amounts to a new era in government control and the largest transfer of wealth from the American taxpayers to what I refer to as the non-taxpaying class in America's history.

To put it another way, it amounts to the colonization of America's Heartland by the Urban Blue enclaves in places like DC, Chicago and on the coasts, the creation of a well-funded Bourbon elite of bureaucrats, 'activists', government functionaries and academia at the expense of the middle classes and private enterprise.

But the important thing is, will it hold?

Barack Hussein Obama is far from the political mastermind Krauthammer sees him as. He's made far too many obvious mistakes for that, and the only thing that's kept him from becoming a national joke is his race, the Democrat's majority that's enabled him to push his agenda through and a toadying, sycophantic media. The truth is, he has yet to actually face a political foe on anything like an even playing field since Bobby Rush beat him like a gong in Obama's initial race for a House seat back in Chicago.

He won his Senate campaign against Jack Ryan solely because Ryan's kinky and sealed divorce records were mysteriously leaked to the public by Obama's political allies in Chicago, and John McCain was a candidate even most of his own party disliked who ran one of the most inept campaigns in recent history. Anyone seeing Barack Obama beating him by six points as evidence of political genius would probably see Oscar De La Hoya winning a ten round decision on points over a 50-year-old out of shape bar brawler the same way.

While I agree with Dr. Krauthammer that his Royal Malignancy shouldn't be underestimated, the coming midterms are going to be an important referendum on Obama's presidency. Given that Obama's insane spending, massive tax increases and anti-business legislation has pretty much insured that the economy is going to be the same or worse this November, the Republicans stand to take the House and actually have a decent shot at taking the Senate.

The trick is going to be whether they have a veto proof majority, at least in the House. If the Republicans can manage that, there's quite a bit they can do.

Including issuing subpoenas and appointing a special prosecutor for a number of interesting items the ranking Republican in the House Oversight Committee Daryl Issa has been asking the White House about - so far, without success.

Of course, the chief thing the new GOP dominated Congress needs to be charged with is stopping Obama's showpiece for his second act, amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

The real purpose of the Democrat party is actually a simple one - bribe people with goodies they didn't earn at the expense of others in exchange for votes and power. It was none other than Benjamin Franklin who declared that the tipping point of our Republic would come when what he referred to as the indigent classes could vote themselves benefits and stipends at the expense of others.

Creating a huge, easily manipulated, poorly educated Democrat-for-life voting bloc is exactly the tipping point Mr. Franklin was talking about. That's the key to the whole ballgame and will decide whether we continue to keep our Republic or descend into civil war when 'the rich' find themselves increasing frozen out of societies' benefits while paying the tab for the ones the government deems more deserving who are.

The Republicans also need to start talking honestly to the American people. They need to forcefully rebut Obama's whine about how he was left with the 'Bush recession' by reminding the electorate that it is Congress, not the president who makes decisions on the budget and where the money was spent. And since January of 2007, those decisions were in the hands of the Democrat- dominated Congress, including a certain Senator Barack Hussein Obama..who voted for the very spending ( when he bothered showing up) he's now blaming George W. Bush for.

The Republicans running for office need to campaign in 2012 on clear cut conservative principles, without any weaseling. They need to make the case for repealing Obama's agenda completely, lowering taxes, cutting spending and bringing jobs back and they need to do it in those twenty second sound bites that make the media.

They need to castigate the president for his inept handling of foreign policy, energy, and the disasters in Nashville,Kentucky and the Gulf Oil Spill.They need to promise to restore America's prosperity and its place in the world, just as Reagan did in 1980.

If they do that, 2012 will be Prez Zero's swan song, not his second act. It will be the final victory over the Gramscian warfare unleashed against the United States by the Soviets almost 80 years ago. And it will be the start of a difficult but ultimately successful American renewal.