We need more people in Washington D.C. who aren't afraid to publicly identify the left's only agenda: To disrupt, divide, and destroy in order to rebuild a statist, egalitarian, totalitarian 'Utopia'.
If you haven't already done so, PLEASE read Saul Alinsky - Rules for Radicals and The Cloward-Piven Strategy: Forcing Political Change Through Orchestrated Crisis. After reading these you will have a comprehensive understanding of why the left does what they do, and you will understand why they push their seemingly idiotic policies. These people are not stupid. They are wrong in what they aim to accomplish, and they're very clever, but not stupid.
Thanks to representatives like Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) , Sen. Ron Johnson (WI) , Sen. Mike Lee (UT), Sen. Tim Scott (SC), Rep. Rand Paul, Rep. Trey Gowdy, and many, many others who are doing, speaking, and voting for what they were elected to do.From Newsmax:
Rep. Blackburn: Obama Wants a Government Shutdown, Not GOP
President Barack Obama wants the GOP to shut down the federal government in its quest of defund Obamacare, Rep. Marsha Blackburn told Newsmax on Friday.
"He's the one who wants a government shutdown," the Tennessee Republican said. "He's probably looking at it and saying: 'Shut it down. Give me the checkbook — and I get to control all discretionary spending, the Obamacare spending, the mandatory spending.'
"He's just sitting there saying: 'Have at it. Give it a shutdown,'" Blackburn added.
"That's not what we want. We want for him to be working with us instead of running around the country giving campaign speeches."
Blackburn was among several GOP legislators who shared their insights on Obama's comments at his White House news conference.
The president's harshest words for were for Capitol Hill Republicans, who have threatened to shut down the government on Oct. 1 in their effort to defund Obamacare.
Negotiations over the continuing resolution to finance the government begin next week. Congress will have to pass the resolution by the end of September to keep the government operating."The American people would have difficulty understanding why we would weaken our economy, shut down our government, shut down vital services, have people who are not getting paid who then can't go to restaurants or shop for clothes or all the other things that we're doing here — because Republicans have determined that they don't want to see these folks get health care," Obama said, his anger growing as he addressed a reporter's question on the subject.
"They used to say they had a replacement," the president added. "I've been hearing about this whole replacement thing for two years. Now, I just don't hear about it, because basically, they don't have an agenda to provide health insurance to people at affordable rates.
"And the idea that you would shut down the government at a time when the recovery's getting some traction, where we're growing, although not as fast as we need to, where the housing market is recovering, although not as fast as we would like, that we would precipitate another crisis here in Washington that no economist thinks is a good idea — I'm assuming that they will not take that path.
"I have confidence that common sense in the end will prevail," Obama said.
Blackburn told Newsmax that the only common-sense approach on Obamacare is for Republicans to "make certain that there is no way that any money, any taxpayer money, is going to go into this bill because the majority of the American people do not want this law. "They don't want Obamacare," she added. "They want to keep what they've got. They're really upset about this."
Republicans have been proposing healthcare reforms since Obama's bipartisan 2009 healthcare summit at Blair House in Washington.
These include allowing Americans to buy health insurance across state lines and ensuring that insurers faithfully back the policies they sell.
"The difference between his proposals and our proposals are that ours are patient-centered, free-market-oriented — and theirs are government-centered," Blackburn told Newsmax. "We want to leave the control with the patients." read more...
From Newsmax:
“The President is so out of touch with unemployed Americans that he thinks tens of thousands of Keystone XL construction jobs are a ‘blip,’ and ‘not a jobs plan,’" the senator said in Saturday's GOP address, in which he slammed Obama's strategy for energy production.Tim Scott: Obama Blocking Jobs with Energy Policy
President Barack Obama is "out of touch" because he does not take seriously the jobs that would be created through the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott said Saturday.
"Opening access to responsible energy production will lower prices, create jobs, grow our economy, decrease dangerous dependence on foreign oil and lower the deficit by adding much needed revenue to the Treasury," Scott, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said. read more...
The extreme failure of the U.S. economy to rebound from the 2008 recession has brought harsh criticism of the President and the Democrat party, much of it claiming that they don't know what they're doing. Some critics claim they don't understand free market economics, or that they are only concerned with growing government at the expense of the economy and the American people. I say that the President does know what he's doing. He and the radical Progressives who control the Democrat party have never intended for their economic policies to succeed. Their intention has been exactly the opposite.
I don't claim to be an economist, or an expert in finance and investment. However, I remember learning that, to the best of anyone's knowledge, recessions are cyclical, and are the result of market correction after a 7 - 9 year period of sustained growth. I've heard conspiracy theorists speculate that it's the Fed that purposely induces recession in order to reap gains from the shift in favorable assets and investments that recession causes. Those further out on the fringe have said that recessions are orchestrated by globalists pushing for a New World Order.
Whatever the cause(s), recession has normally been dealt with in responsible fashion by reining in government spending, lowering capital gains taxes to spur investment, lowering investment restrictions, and other traditionally conservative fiscal measures.
The Obama administration has employed the complete opposite measures that are known to have been successful in the past. The Left's goal has evolved into a quest to bring an extreme loss of confidence in capitalism and free market economics by the American people, and by domestic and foreign investors. If they could accomplish this loss of confidence during a time of extreme economic crisis, they could use the crisis as an excuse to seize control of banking, lending institutions, housing, health care, education, transportation, etc., all in the name of emergency crisis control. The frightened American people would not object if they had lost confidence in the traditional ways of doing things.
To achieve this loss of confidence and mistrust, the Obama administration has put a 'wet blanket' on every single aspect of the economy, and killed every single area that shows promise for growth in the private sector. Meanwhile, they blame Republicans, corporations, the Tea Party movement, and anyone else that wanders into their sights.
These, and every other move Democrats have made since then, have prolonged the housing problem, the lending problem, the jobless problem, and the energy problem. They all remain broken, or frightened into inaction, to this day.
I believe the reason that the Left's goal has radically changed during this recession, is that they saw opportunity to collapse the system when they saw the swollen debt left by the Bush administration. Combined with the 'crisis' caused by the predicted and known collapse of Fannie/Freddie, they saw the opportunity for unprecedented spending for bailouts that it provided. I believe they saw this as an opportunity to, with just a little more 'emergency' spending, push the whole works over the edge.