ALL IN or ALL OVER May 23, 2014
We think of the upcoming election as 'All In or All Over' -- if there is not a Republican Majority in the Senate, the destructive, divisive, cynically and arrogantly partisan, inept, corrupt policies of the Obama administration will
be hardened in concrete and seemingly beyond reach to reverse or even mitigate.
Considering the vital importance of the 2014 Senate races for determining the Senate Majority they should be viewed as NATIONAL races, not merely as local State races.
A net of 6 additional Republican seats are needed to depose dictator Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who has had no interest in having the Senate pass a budget and only on very rare occasions permits a Senate debate on legislation passed by the House -- let alone have a vote on it -- or permits Republican supported amendments to pending Senate legislation. And all the while Reid has the gall and audacious mendacity to
smear the Republicans as “obstructionists”!
Every day with this administration there seems to be some idea or theme revived or concocted and put out there to serve some political purpose or provide a smoke screen distraction.
For all those MILLIONS who don't have JOBS -- entry level or otherwise -- let's order a 20% minimum wage increase while the Congressional Budget Office reports this will cause 500,000 jobs to disappear!
How about revving up and running with the old stand by ‘War on Women’ accusation or ‘Gender Inequality’.
Now that we've decided to stop deporting illegal aliens / undocumenteds who have been convicted of "low level" crimes -- even repeatedly -- next let's hire a battalion of attorneys to arrange the early release from prison of
individuals previously charged, tried and convicted of drug related offenses-- including those who had more serious charges that were dropped to lesser plea deals -- and get them back on the streets back in business selling drugs!
Let's make this a top priority of so-called "social justice" instead of the social justice of creating private sector jobs, getting people off Food Stamps and helping the millions who have dropped out of the labor force
getting back into employment. Or how about passing an actual budget or entitlement reform or debt or
deficit relief or tax reform ?
How about having energy independence and security as a national priority? Whoops ! After 5 years of procrastination and evasion and finally getting clearance again from all government agencies to go ahead with the XL pipeline, now we have a rabid environmental activist who announces that he will donate $100,000,000 -- yes, $100,000,000 ! -- to Democrat campaign coffers if Obama does not approve the XL pipeline. Are you
surprised Obama accepted the offer ?
Who needs to deal with those vitally important troublesome issues -- even in year 6 ! -- when there are also the endless divisive distractions to foment dissent and turmoil such as racist rants and allegations and there is so
much class envy and warfare to stir up.
By the way, there should be criminal statutes for overt campaign pledge fraud -- not to mention in office pledge fraud. Obama's statements about debt ceiling increases, executive order excesses, barrels of bipartisan
cumbaya hokum: no red states or blue states just the “united” States, “transparency,” “accountability,” reading pending legislation on the internet prior to its passage, ‘you can keep your health plan and your doctor --
period,’ etc, etc., etc. Wouldn’t this be life plus 99 !
So far it seems the Post Office may be the only agency of government not yet corrupted and deployed and enlisted for some criminal or political purpose or target -- the IRS, the DOJ, of course, and then we had the
Commerce Dept. rigging the miraculous fake unemployment rate drop to coincide with a campaign need in October 2012.
What about Benghazi: didn’t Hilary Clinton as the invisible Secretary of the State Dept. come up with a whopper of a psychedelic tale about a video which virtually no one heard of or saw ? Then the CIA and its MIA
Director, General Petraeus, were all too accommodating to protest the White House’s whitewashing of the actual on the ground intelligence assessment in the Benghazi 911 anniversary terrorist attack. The White
didn’t think the CIA references to warnings about the attack and the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group fit with a “clean” preening political campaign story line. Remarkable to see the agencies of government working so
cooperatively in deceit and concealment and distraction.
And remember when Obama decided to bring control of the Census directly into the White House and we all wondered, 'Gee, what's with that ?'
Well now we know about the scheme to skew some of the questions asked strictly for political purposes to inflate the number who reported they had no health insurance. Going forward, the government has announced that they will correct those skewed questionnaire issues so that when the survey is done again -- presto ! there will be many more WITH health insurance coverage so this can be falsely attributed to Obamacare.
My God, it’s hard to imagine the cynical calculation and conniving involved in dreaming up and carrying out some of these schemes.
The relentless tactics the Obama Administration has used for political purposes have been nonstop from the beginning. It seems Obama has never really known or done anything except to be in non-stop campaign
mode and he has never really stopped since he’s been in office.
Equally alarming as Obama's pernicious policies is his shocking decidedly disrespectful unPresidential demeanor: has there been any President who has displayed such ridicule, mockery, and contempt for the opposition party? He shows no respect and demonizes any political opposition.
Think about it: he referred to the Republican controlled House as a "fever" that he was hoping would be "broken." Imagine that level of arrogance and egotistical contempt. He has no respect for any point of view or opposition to what he wants to do -- period and, in this case, "period" does apply ! I believe this disrespect and contempt for opposing political views was the basis and inspiration for the IRS systematic program to shut down the 501 C 3 applications by conservative groups as they delay, obstructed and diverted back to Washington their applications in order to suppress their activities.
(If you doubt what Obama’s priorities were / are, consider this: the retired small aleck IRS Director - ‘I was at the White House for the Easter Egg Hunt’ - visited the White house over 150 times while the VA Director General Shinsecki has never met with Obama in two years !)
To appreciate the arrogance and ignorance of Obama’s disrespect for opposing political viewpoints, consider this: if all the States had the same Electoral voting system that Nebraska and Maine have, Romney would
have been elected !
Do the math -- each state's electoral votes are the total of its Congressional Seats plus the 2 Senate Seats. The 2012 election would have ended up 269 - 269 and the Republican Majority House would have elected Romney.
The majority of the Congressional Districts voted for Romney and about 70 - 75 % of the entire geographic area of the country voted for Romney.
Obama carried many states with a disproportionately larger majority vote in big city Congressional Districts. As an example, Obama won only 4 of the 18 Pennsylvania Congressional Districts and Romney won 14. Obama won
PA's 20 electoral votes. Using the Congressional District electoral vote counting, Romney would have won PA 14 - 6. But Obama in his imperial narcissism feels the viewpoints of the citizens in those 14 Congressional
Districts were a "fever" that he hoped would be broken !
Just as he has little respect for the political opposition his contempt seems to apply as well to the Separation and Balance of Powers of the 3 branches of government. He clearly believes the Executive branch is immune to those checks and balances as he continues to make Executive Orders that have the full force and effect as laws and he -- along with Attorney General Eric ‘beholden to no one’ Holder -- continue to selectively enforce or not enforce laws passed by Congress and do so with brazen impunity.
Obama is the poster child for what the Founding Fathers were most concerned about in creating the Constitution with the checks and balances and individual citizen protections: namely, the tyranny of big government and the tyranny of the majority. Democrat Majority Leader Reid is a willing accomplice in this process with his recently imposed unprecedented decree to restrict the filibuster rule in the Senate. There is no choice at this time, it’s All In or All Over !
It’s really that stark and simple: without a Republican Senate Majority, it will be more of the same.
With it, it still will be an uphill climb but but at least for the first time in 6 years there will be an opportunity limit some of Obama’s destructive policies and hopefully reverse some of the others.
Jerry Missel
PS. A historical note and reminder: until the 17th Amendment was passed in 2013, the U.S. Senators were elected by the State legislatures and were to function as “ambassadors” to the the centralized Federal government to restrain the power and reach of the Federal government and promote the interests of the individual states. Since the 17th Amendment was passed the power and reach and the Federal government has greatly expanded and the power and influence of the states has been progressively diminished and marginalized vis-a-vis Federal government dictates. Thus, there has been discussion about repealing this amendment.
Incidentally, if the 17th Amendment were not in effect today, the Republicans would hold a significant majority in the Senate nearly identical to the majority Obama had upon his election and which he took advantage of to have Congress ram through seemingly the most lopsided, massive and far reaching partisan major legislation in the history of the country.
A new day and spirit of bipartisan cooperation in Washington,D.C., as campaigned on and “promised” by Obama indeed !
We think of the upcoming election as 'All In or All Over' -- if there is not a Republican Majority in the Senate, the destructive, divisive, cynically and arrogantly partisan, inept, corrupt policies of the Obama administration will
be hardened in concrete and seemingly beyond reach to reverse or even mitigate.
Considering the vital importance of the 2014 Senate races for determining the Senate Majority they should be viewed as NATIONAL races, not merely as local State races.
A net of 6 additional Republican seats are needed to depose dictator Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who has had no interest in having the Senate pass a budget and only on very rare occasions permits a Senate debate on legislation passed by the House -- let alone have a vote on it -- or permits Republican supported amendments to pending Senate legislation. And all the while Reid has the gall and audacious mendacity to
smear the Republicans as “obstructionists”!
Every day with this administration there seems to be some idea or theme revived or concocted and put out there to serve some political purpose or provide a smoke screen distraction.
For all those MILLIONS who don't have JOBS -- entry level or otherwise -- let's order a 20% minimum wage increase while the Congressional Budget Office reports this will cause 500,000 jobs to disappear!
How about revving up and running with the old stand by ‘War on Women’ accusation or ‘Gender Inequality’.
Now that we've decided to stop deporting illegal aliens / undocumenteds who have been convicted of "low level" crimes -- even repeatedly -- next let's hire a battalion of attorneys to arrange the early release from prison of
individuals previously charged, tried and convicted of drug related offenses-- including those who had more serious charges that were dropped to lesser plea deals -- and get them back on the streets back in business selling drugs!
Let's make this a top priority of so-called "social justice" instead of the social justice of creating private sector jobs, getting people off Food Stamps and helping the millions who have dropped out of the labor force
getting back into employment. Or how about passing an actual budget or entitlement reform or debt or
deficit relief or tax reform ?
How about having energy independence and security as a national priority? Whoops ! After 5 years of procrastination and evasion and finally getting clearance again from all government agencies to go ahead with the XL pipeline, now we have a rabid environmental activist who announces that he will donate $100,000,000 -- yes, $100,000,000 ! -- to Democrat campaign coffers if Obama does not approve the XL pipeline. Are you
surprised Obama accepted the offer ?
Who needs to deal with those vitally important troublesome issues -- even in year 6 ! -- when there are also the endless divisive distractions to foment dissent and turmoil such as racist rants and allegations and there is so
much class envy and warfare to stir up.
By the way, there should be criminal statutes for overt campaign pledge fraud -- not to mention in office pledge fraud. Obama's statements about debt ceiling increases, executive order excesses, barrels of bipartisan
cumbaya hokum: no red states or blue states just the “united” States, “transparency,” “accountability,” reading pending legislation on the internet prior to its passage, ‘you can keep your health plan and your doctor --
period,’ etc, etc., etc. Wouldn’t this be life plus 99 !
So far it seems the Post Office may be the only agency of government not yet corrupted and deployed and enlisted for some criminal or political purpose or target -- the IRS, the DOJ, of course, and then we had the
Commerce Dept. rigging the miraculous fake unemployment rate drop to coincide with a campaign need in October 2012.
What about Benghazi: didn’t Hilary Clinton as the invisible Secretary of the State Dept. come up with a whopper of a psychedelic tale about a video which virtually no one heard of or saw ? Then the CIA and its MIA
Director, General Petraeus, were all too accommodating to protest the White House’s whitewashing of the actual on the ground intelligence assessment in the Benghazi 911 anniversary terrorist attack. The White
didn’t think the CIA references to warnings about the attack and the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group fit with a “clean” preening political campaign story line. Remarkable to see the agencies of government working so
cooperatively in deceit and concealment and distraction.
And remember when Obama decided to bring control of the Census directly into the White House and we all wondered, 'Gee, what's with that ?'
Well now we know about the scheme to skew some of the questions asked strictly for political purposes to inflate the number who reported they had no health insurance. Going forward, the government has announced that they will correct those skewed questionnaire issues so that when the survey is done again -- presto ! there will be many more WITH health insurance coverage so this can be falsely attributed to Obamacare.
My God, it’s hard to imagine the cynical calculation and conniving involved in dreaming up and carrying out some of these schemes.
The relentless tactics the Obama Administration has used for political purposes have been nonstop from the beginning. It seems Obama has never really known or done anything except to be in non-stop campaign
mode and he has never really stopped since he’s been in office.
Equally alarming as Obama's pernicious policies is his shocking decidedly disrespectful unPresidential demeanor: has there been any President who has displayed such ridicule, mockery, and contempt for the opposition party? He shows no respect and demonizes any political opposition.
Think about it: he referred to the Republican controlled House as a "fever" that he was hoping would be "broken." Imagine that level of arrogance and egotistical contempt. He has no respect for any point of view or opposition to what he wants to do -- period and, in this case, "period" does apply ! I believe this disrespect and contempt for opposing political views was the basis and inspiration for the IRS systematic program to shut down the 501 C 3 applications by conservative groups as they delay, obstructed and diverted back to Washington their applications in order to suppress their activities.
(If you doubt what Obama’s priorities were / are, consider this: the retired small aleck IRS Director - ‘I was at the White House for the Easter Egg Hunt’ - visited the White house over 150 times while the VA Director General Shinsecki has never met with Obama in two years !)
To appreciate the arrogance and ignorance of Obama’s disrespect for opposing political viewpoints, consider this: if all the States had the same Electoral voting system that Nebraska and Maine have, Romney would
have been elected !
Do the math -- each state's electoral votes are the total of its Congressional Seats plus the 2 Senate Seats. The 2012 election would have ended up 269 - 269 and the Republican Majority House would have elected Romney.
The majority of the Congressional Districts voted for Romney and about 70 - 75 % of the entire geographic area of the country voted for Romney.
Obama carried many states with a disproportionately larger majority vote in big city Congressional Districts. As an example, Obama won only 4 of the 18 Pennsylvania Congressional Districts and Romney won 14. Obama won
PA's 20 electoral votes. Using the Congressional District electoral vote counting, Romney would have won PA 14 - 6. But Obama in his imperial narcissism feels the viewpoints of the citizens in those 14 Congressional
Districts were a "fever" that he hoped would be broken !
Just as he has little respect for the political opposition his contempt seems to apply as well to the Separation and Balance of Powers of the 3 branches of government. He clearly believes the Executive branch is immune to those checks and balances as he continues to make Executive Orders that have the full force and effect as laws and he -- along with Attorney General Eric ‘beholden to no one’ Holder -- continue to selectively enforce or not enforce laws passed by Congress and do so with brazen impunity.
Obama is the poster child for what the Founding Fathers were most concerned about in creating the Constitution with the checks and balances and individual citizen protections: namely, the tyranny of big government and the tyranny of the majority. Democrat Majority Leader Reid is a willing accomplice in this process with his recently imposed unprecedented decree to restrict the filibuster rule in the Senate. There is no choice at this time, it’s All In or All Over !
It’s really that stark and simple: without a Republican Senate Majority, it will be more of the same.
With it, it still will be an uphill climb but but at least for the first time in 6 years there will be an opportunity limit some of Obama’s destructive policies and hopefully reverse some of the others.
Jerry Missel
PS. A historical note and reminder: until the 17th Amendment was passed in 2013, the U.S. Senators were elected by the State legislatures and were to function as “ambassadors” to the the centralized Federal government to restrain the power and reach of the Federal government and promote the interests of the individual states. Since the 17th Amendment was passed the power and reach and the Federal government has greatly expanded and the power and influence of the states has been progressively diminished and marginalized vis-a-vis Federal government dictates. Thus, there has been discussion about repealing this amendment.
Incidentally, if the 17th Amendment were not in effect today, the Republicans would hold a significant majority in the Senate nearly identical to the majority Obama had upon his election and which he took advantage of to have Congress ram through seemingly the most lopsided, massive and far reaching partisan major legislation in the history of the country.
A new day and spirit of bipartisan cooperation in Washington,D.C., as campaigned on and “promised” by Obama indeed !