David Limbaugh : It's Not the Economy, Stupid! It's National Survival! -


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The Washington Post's Dan Balz thinks that "with new priorities, Obama
and Democrats can recover in 2010." Sorry, Dan; it's about more than
priorities. It's a matter of their worldview.


Balz dutifully cites "the size of the problems President Obama
inherited" and "the battles he chose to take on during his first
year" as
mitigating factors that may lead to the public's understanding and allow Obama
an opportunity to hit "the reset button."


Balz says Obama's advisers believe he can "pivot" in the first few
months of 2010 and restore his standing with the American people. Balz offers
four "elements" that "might allow that to happen": refocus on the
economy; move Congress offstage; get serious about the deficit and spending;
and avoid overloading the circuits.


Let's briefly examine Balz's analysis -- an analysis that is doubtlessly
typical for Beltway media elites.


First, Obama's free-falling approval ratings are not a result of
problems he inherited. How long are he and his liberal media shills going to
milk this "blame Bush" mantra like a bunch of reprobate school
kids? Balz is
onto something, however, in citing "the battles he chose to take on
during his first year." But he's wrong that it is a mitigating factor.


Let me throw out something that's a bit counterintuitive. I don't
believe the public has lost faith in Obama over the economy. And the public's
angst is about more than just its losing faith in him.


The public is scared to death -- not about the ebbs and flows of the
economy in the short term, but about the very survival of the country --
because of the reckless spending policies Obama is deliberately pursuing
and the other "elements" of his destructive agenda to remake America in
his image -- including going soft on terrorism.


What Balz needs to get through his head -- and then share with his
impervious colleagues -- is that Obama didn't undertake his radical
agenda to turn America into a full-blown socialist state because of "the size
of the problems (he) inherited." That was just a convenient excuse.


He has been groomed, mentored and polished for this very task since he
was a little boy. He is taking out his grudge against America, an America he
views as fundamentally unfair, inequitable, imperialistic and
exploitive, but as a powerful resource for change -- if only he can
fundamentally transform it.


I might remind Mr. Balz that Obama's agenda didn't significantly change
with the unfolding of the financial crisis that led to TARP. He has had
his sights on a single-payer health care system for years. He had plans
to "spread the wealth around" long before TARP became an acronym. He and
his wife were trashing America as arrogant and dismissive long before this
economic crisis fell into their laps just months before the 2008
election.


So, yes, Obama's standing with the American people is related to "the
battles he chose to take on during his first year," but not in a
positive way. Those battles don't qualify as mitigating factors, Mr. Balz,
because they were undertaken not to improve the economy, but to consummate, in
substance, a Cold War victory for the communists after they had
otherwise been defeated.


The fainthearted among us can blanch at the suggestion that Obama is a
Marxist -- and accuse me of name-calling or incivility -- but my
intention is not to inflame. It is to communicate the truth in accurate terms
to help people understand the magnitude of the threat we face by this
assault on our liberties.


Obama didn't impose his Draconian stimulus bill or omnibus spending
bills to jump-start the economy. He did it to transfer wealth and establish
slush funds for re-election. He didn't push cap and trade to reduce
"global warming," but to bring America down to size with the
"underdeveloped" nations of the world. He didn't obsessively promote
Obamacare to improve the economy, "bend the cost curve" (what a joke!),
achieve universal coverage or improve the quality of health care. He did
it to amplify the federal government's power over all aspects of our
lives.


Mr. Balz, wake up. Obama isn't even trying to "get serious about the
deficit and spending." That's a cruel ruse. Look at his projected
deficits in the out-years. He is planning on deficits in excess of a trillion
dollars from here forward, even after the economy fully recovers.
The country cannot sustain this. The public knows it and is outraged and
horrified by it. Our children cannot live in freedom if this insane
recklessness is not stopped. It's not about the economy, stupid! It's
about the survival of this great nation.





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