Nom de plume: Rivrdog

The "Fiscal Cliff", and why we'll go over it

Easy answer, because it's now been fleshed out by our President as a "Cloward-Piven" strategy. In other words, it will be a manufactured crisis, the mother of all such actually, during which, the President will "take charge", thereby demonstrating his "leadership" and (probably) creating an un-Constitutional power grab of the economic (appropriation) reins from Congress.

The Holy Grail for Obama is not taxing the rich, a simple smokescreen for the present, it is to be able to bust the debt-ceiling at will. If he creates a fiscal disaster, he will then tell us that only more "stimulus" spending will see us safely out of the disaster, and so he will order the Treasury to print that money, he will order it spent (likely added to present stimulus law), and we will add another few trillion to the debt.

If the House of Congress finds it's spine, and I'm NOT betting on that, all it can really do is start impeachment proceedings, but the while the (GOP) House might impeach, the (D) Senate won't convict, so that's a stalemate. Bill Clinton was impeached, and it hasn't stopped the (D)emocratic Party from calling him the "elder statesman".

After some time has passed, and with as much delay as can be arranged, Obama will have to face the Supreme Court, which will probably declare that part of the National Debt he created by fiat to be illegal.

Okay, what then?

Nothing, then. Unlike FDR, who actually stopped his stimulus programs when the SCOTUS ordered him to cease and desist, Obama won't stop. Is the SCOTUS going to hold Obama personally responsible? No. Is the SCOTUS going to hold him in contempt and order the US Marshals to arrest him and put him in jail? No, you and I would get that treatment, but Obama won't.

Obama will have ignored the Constitution and the SCOTUS and gotten away with it.

What other part of the Constitution might he ignore next? Hard to say, but all the anti-gun filk would beg him to give similar treatment to the Second Amendment. There's a physical threat to his tyranny there, after all. He might try to muzzle Internet dissent and trash the First Amendment while he's at it. Along the way to trashing those pesky First and Second Amendments in the Bill of Rights, the Fourth and Fifth Amendments will probably go away, too.

Bottom line, by the time 2016 rolls around, there will be NO doubt that Obamalamadingdong intends to stay in office as long as he wants to (read: until he can groom a "Manchurian" candidate who will take his orders), so the (D)emocratic Party will just ignore the election and not even nominate a candidate to replace him.

Blue sky theory? You bet, but it's how some of his advisers think, and Obama himself has never had or expressed an original idea, he IS the product of his advising staff.

Yep, these are Valerie Jarrett's ideas as well as mine, I'd bet on that. We know, to a moral certainty, that what Valerie Jarrett wants, Valerie Jarrett gets. What Valerie Jarrett advises, Obama acts upon.

By this time next month, it will be unlikely that this Nation will be able to be rescued from total tyranny without resort to arms, and that uprising, when and if it occurs, will be a mere blip in history, a "beer-hall putsch", a short interruption in the Greater Glory of Our Glorious Leader.

All Hail, etc.

How bad IS the GOP?

This bad.

The latest (D)onk ploy: buy a few "Republicans".

Item: Charlie Christ of Florida, Marco Rubio's primary opponent. Bought and Paid For and has reported for duty as a (D)emocrat. This may not be news, since he's been threatening this action for a while, but he will be added to this list of additional suspects:

Item; Michael Bloomberg, Dictator of New Jack Citeh, who claimed the Republican Party to be elected Hizzoner, doesn't really mean it. Probably also claimed it in the first place for the purpose of staying connected to his Richey Rich pals, before he was smart enough to figure out that most of them are closet or actual liberals. He now claims to be "independent". Riiiight. Obama just announced the price for buying Bloomie off: the lion's share of $60 billion bucks for "storm relief":

"And it would provide $15 billion for community development block grants that would fill in gaps in recovery by ad­dressing needs not covered by other fed­eral programs. (my emphasis)

Obama also asked Congress to provide nearly $13 billion to harden states against future storms — a key request of Governor Christie in the month after Sandy."

I'd LOVE for the Feds to pay the tab for modernizing MY city, but we don't have any faux-GOPers running it, so Obama won't get to crow like he will when Bloomie signs the (D)onk pledge.

Ditto Tubby the One Note Tuba. Chris Christie will likely be added to the D-list before the '16 Election, too. He just announced that Uncle Hussein, who Tubby praised to the skies just a few days prior to the election and probably took Romney votes away by doing so, has agreed to finance his Joisey dream-sheet as well. Christie's probably finished as the Conservative he pretended to be, his only "conservative" action since election being the trashing of his Joisey public employees' unions (but not the Big Unions, like Dockworkers). He has no other Conservative credentials at all, and damn few Republican credentials, either.

All in all, it appears that US taxpayers (or their kids and grandkids) will be on the hook for at least $28 billion of "storm aid" past the actual estimates for just-plain restoration after Hurricane Sandy. That's nothing but naked influence-peddling.

Can anyone else report any other likely candidate for the Big Switcheroo, which will become a centerpiece for the (D)onks, maybe even in time for the Congressional Election of 2014?

Tobacco Road?

Is the "Tobacco Road" solution on the minds of the tradional conservatives right now? Blow it up, start all over again? One of their champions, some say their best champion, Jim DeMint, Senator of South Carolina, will leave the Senate to head the conservative think-tank The Heritage Foundation. Fine outfit, the Heritage Foundation. Will be even finer with DeMint running it.

DeMint might bring the Heritage Foundation into the forefront of conservative leadership, and if he does that, the TEA Party is reborn, and if that happens, a fight for control of the GOP ensues. The mainstreamers will lose, and the TEA Party might just get invigorated enough to take back the Senate in 2014, and give the Hilldebeeste a serious run in 2016, or give Obama the bum's rush in his possible attempt to declare himself President-for-Life.

Imagine that, conservatives who actually are conservative. If we can convince them to bring their Constitutions and leave their Bibles at home, they might find a strong ally, the Libertarians. The Cs and the Ls joined together might just topple the Gimmes. Could happen.

OTOH, maybe DeMint has just had enough of the internecine fight, and wants a quiet place to live out the rest of his life, as Jefferson did before him at Monticello.

The Left won again

Let's make that win the final time.

Analyzing the win, the left won because they got their Socialist message of  "come git yo FREE shit" out better than the Romnoids got out their message of  "capitalism works, let's give it a try". This "free Shit" is the forever way that Socialism has been foisted off on nations, for the past 100 years.

The Left was better organized at the polls. As I went to bed in my Scotch fog last night, Obama had just over a 1.1 million popular vote margin, but he had over 300 electoral votes. He gamed the system and won. He got Ohio way back, three and a half years ago, by bailing out the auto industry. Free shit, he gave out government-backed auto-industry jobs for free, smiled at those auto workers and said, "remember me on November Sixth, 2012." They remembered. Romney never had a chance in Ohio.

So it went. I'm not going to sit here and moan about it. Now we have to live with the Obama agenda for the next four years.

Or do we?

Can we fight back?

Can we put some awful hurt on the Left, enough hurt to chase them back to their holes in four years?

I think we can.

Over at Say Uncle, the short but powerful post on Obama's win brought out at least one thinker, a commenter named Nevyan (at Comment #12). Nevyan proposes local action to take down the left, and he proposes how to do it legally and properly, so close those gun safes and let's follow Nevyan's system here.

After we pick a local target to "wage lawfare" on, and start gathering our information, both on suspected violations AND on the intracacies of the laws we will use, we can do one other thing.

Let's wage war on on the Left's pet system, the Green Agenda.

Instead of fighting the Green Agenda only as the left brings up new parts of it, like most of us have done, let's go offensive instead of staying defensive.

Take longer showers. Keep your lawn green in the summer, if the law allows it. Use all the water you can.

Burn all the lights in your house while you are awake on these long winter nights. Use that electricity that is there, on demand, in your wires.

We're going to deny the Left their present advantage of claiming that their conservation system works, that less is better, that composting can take the place of garbage service, etc. We're going to require them to build out the electric grid, because we are going to overload it. Rationing? Brownouts? The occasional blackout? Yep, we will have those, but who will get the blame for that? You won't. The Left will because they are in charge. Yes, it will cost you money not to conserve, but how else can you wage this kind of assymetrical war for so little money and still keep your freedom?

When the Left starts to soak up more and more of the blame for the collapsing utility infrastructure, the Government WILL be changed out, legally, properly, at the polls.

No one of us can do this alone, but in our millions, we CAN make it happen (oooooh, collectivism against the collectivists, yessss!). The Government will either yield, or they will have to become overly restrictive, and when those draconian restrictions on utility use happen, they will hurt EVERYONE, and then the Greens get blamed and get removed. At the very least, it pits the Greens against the suburban soccer moms, who also voted for the Won last night.

Take the Greens out of the fight, and conservatives have an even chance on the electoral battlefield.

The White House can be ours in 2016, but only if we wage a consistent and persistent fight. We can't win with bullets, I agree. We can win with "lawfare" (a Green tactic, BTW), and we CAN and WILL win with resistance to the Green Agenda of doing with less.

Consume your way to victory, my friends.