Thursday, March 7, 2013

Obama's Real Strategy For His Second Term

I did a Blog Talk Radio show a few weeks ago where I laid out what I believed would be an elaborate crashing of America's economy - a purposeful sabotage of this country's economic foundation, similar to 2008, that would be orchestrated by the Obama administration and the entire intent of it would be to point a damning finger at House Republicans for the catastrophe and thus, bring about the flip of the House of Representatives from GOP control to Dem control in 2014.  I made the claim that with the House back in Dem control along with the Senate and the Executive, that there would be no stopping the real agenda for the 2nd term of Barack Obama.

This article from Family Security Matters at least substantiates that Obama's goal IS the flip of the House.  It's my prediction now that if the GOP were to hold the House in 2014 and if somehow, miraculously, the GOP could even up the U.S. Senate, you will see Barack Obama fold like a tent for the last two years of his Presidency - he'll golf more than Phil Mickelson, he'll spend 30% of this time overseas and he'll set a record for vacation time.  You know, it'll be like a Leader of the Free World tantrum.


Obama's Pelosi II Strategy - The WaPo reveals the real 2nd-term priority


Old Washington hands have been scratching their heads about the start of President Obama's second term, with its aggressive liberal priorities and attacks on Republicans. Whatever happened to governing? Well, the answer arrived this weekend as the Washington Post reported that Mr. Obama's real plan for the next two years is returning Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker in 2014.

"The goal is to flip the Republican-held House back to Democratic control, allowing Obama to push forward with a progressive agenda on gun control, immigration, climate change and the economy during his final two years in office, according to congressional Democrats, strategists and others familiar with Obama's thinking," reports the Post, which is hardly hostile to the President.

The article says that shortly after finishing his speech on Election Night last year, Mr. Obama called Mrs. Pelosi and Steve Israel, who runs the Democratic House re-election campaign, to discuss 2014. The strategy fits Mr. Obama's unprecedented new effort to raise $50 million in $500,000 chunks to fund Organizing for Action (OFA), which will spend millions in GOP-held districts. Mr. Israel says he met in January with Jim Messina, Mr. Obama's 2012 campaign manager who now runs OFA, to discuss the 2014 races.

White House press secretary Jay Carney pushed back against the article on Monday, saying 2014 is "not a focus" for Mr. Obama. But that looks like an attempt at damage control after the Post blew the White House's cover. Mr. Obama has to appear to want bipartisan deals even as he prepares the ground for blaming Republicans in 2014 when those efforts fail.

This is already clear on the budget, as Mr. Obama insists on a second tax increase that Republicans can't accept. We're also increasingly worried about White House sabotage on immigration reform, as it pushes the bill left on a guest-worker program and enforcement. Mr. Obama is doing exactly what you'd expect if he doesn't want a deal and plans to use the issue to drive minority turnout in 2014.

It's important to understand how extraordinary this is. Presidents typically try to secure major bipartisan deals in their fifth or sixth years, before their political capital ebbs. That's what Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan did, and George W. Bush tried on Social Security. Mr. Obama seems to think he can use the next two years mainly to set up a Pelosi House that would let him finish his last two years with a liberal bang.

The next time you hear Mr. Obama, House Democrats or one of their media acolytes talk about GOP "obstructionism," refer them to the Washington Post article that shows what they really intend for the current Congress. Bipartisan failure is their strategy.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's more ominous than you put it.
See here, for example:
http://hezbos.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-regimes-secret-agenda.html