Ok, those of you who that Barry is deserving of another four years, should really be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it, and then what are you gonna do! I don’t want to hear and bitchin and complainin, you hear me? Because, I’ll tell ya, even though the presidential contest is far from over, the House Democrats are already putting together their little legislative wish-list, quite confident in the fact that Barry will be able to once again successfully hoodwink the voting public just long enough to get himself reelected. The ‘lawmakers’ are already floating a broad array of issues they'd like to see Barry tackle immediately in a second term, supposedly placing a focus on jobs and the economy, but also some of the more thorny discretionary issues like immigration, supposed ‘climate change’, housing and even a return to healthcare reform. In other words, everything but what must be addressed.
There theory is that a Barry victory in November would lend the president a brand new fistful of political capital and he would then be free to launch in any direction he wishes, impervious to any possible fallout since he will not be forced to contend with another pesky election. And, as such, will feel emboldened to go after Republican leaders seeking to push them in his direction regarding method to avoid going over that much talked about fiscal cliff as well in which direction he will work to steer the polarized country through the next four years. More than a month before November's elections, his allies in the House are already offering up some tips for how to spend what they see as being Barry’s rejuvenated political capital. None of those tips accomplishes nothing of what is actually needed to get our country back on track!
In what would seem, to most of us, as being a rather idiotic statement, Rep. Bill Pascrell in speaking about Barry, said last week that, "He's got to continue to concentrate on jobs." Continue to concentrate on jobs? At which point during the last four years has Barry ever spent anytime actually "concentrating on jobs?" Did I miss something? I mean if that had been the case would we have suffered an unemployment rate over 8 percent for the 40+ continuous months? And then we have Rep. Henry Cuellar who said, "I'm hoping he'll do immigration reform." But perhaps the most idiotic of all was when some clown from Vermont, Rep. Peter Welch actually said, "We should get back to an energy policy – one that acknowledges that climate change is real." Oh yeah, climate change, now there’s a hot button issue!
Also pushing an issue that I am sure is near and dear to ‘his heart, Rep Raul Grijalva said, "The critical issues will be revenue generation, and a concerted push on immigration reform." Oh yeah, above all else we’ve got to finagle a way to let those breaking the law by just being in this country, to stay here. And then there’s Rep. Mike Honda who said, "I think he'd want his administration to start on healthcare." The remarks highlight the variety of issues the Democrats are hoping to address after two years in the House minority, and foreshadow the degree of supposed pressure that a reelected Barry would be under to satisfy his allies after a bruising campaign season. We’ll see I guess. But the growing number of ‘suggestions’ would also seem to indicate that there now exists a rising confidence among Democrats.
The presidential contest remains a close one, but recent polls, of they are to be trusted, do seem to show Barry with a growing lead in the all important battleground states of Ohio and Florida and could be an indication that Mitt Romney has a hard road ahead to unseat our incumbent boob. Although the Republicans are expected to keep control of the House, a Barry win amid a lingering jobs crisis would, at least in the eyes of Democrats, validate some of the policies the president has adopted on the campaign trail and pressure Republicans to reach deals on them. Indeed, some leading Republicans have even said an Barry victory would be "a referendum" for raising taxes on the country's highest earners, one of Barry’s continuing top priorities. But I disagree, I just don’t see it that way. That may be the case for the crowd that Barry is playing to, the lazy parasites, or the takers in our society, comfortable sponging off of the rest of us, the makers. But certainly not the case for those who find ourselves on the receiving end of Barry redistribution policies.
There was a certain amount of post-election momentum was evident four years ago when Barry was swept into the White House in a wave of Democratic victories that allowed the party to gain control of Congress. The result of that colossal bit of stupidity be the American people not only allowed the Democrats to secure the early passage of their controversial economic stimulus package, but it also paved the way for the enactment of sweeping healthcare ‘reforms’ the following year. "Reform’ that essentially ripped from our hand control of our own healthcare decisions. Although voter enthusiasm toward Barry has waned, some would say considerably, his reelection would give Barry some much needed new leverage in his negotiations with GOP leaders over the wide range of issues favored by the Democrats.
His House supporters are hoping he would use that newly acquired leverage to fight for the long list of Democratic priorities that were lost to the partisan battles of the last Congress. Topping the list are lingering concerns about an economy where unemployment remains stuck above 8 percent. Barry last year floated legislation designed to create jobs by boosting infrastructure spending, you know, those shovel ready jobs that, as it turned out, weren’t as shovel ready as Barry thought. Barry was also boasting about his ideas for promoting manufacturing and hiking taxes on corporations that outsource jobs, central elements of the Democrats' ridiculous, "Make it in America" agenda. But Republicans in both chambers have prevented that package from going anywhere.
Other lawmakers think that it is social issues that should be on the president’s radar. A growing number of Democrats, for instance, see immigration as a top issue in a second Barry term, particularly if Latinos vote overwhelmingly for the president, as current polls predict, and Republicans are pressured to compromise or risk losing those voters in every national election for the foreseeable future. So essentially they should bow to threat of political blackmail, rather than do what’s best for this country, which is why they were sent to Washington in the first place. "If we don't do it next year, 2014 is going to be here, and then 2016 is going to be here," said Cuellar. "So I think we'll have a window like we had a window in 2009 after his election … and I hope we get to do it."
Grijalva agreed that a big win for Barry with Latinos would be enough to convince Republicans to support immigration reform in early 2013 just to "put that issue behind us." "It's been a venomous issue politically now for almost three election cycles," he said. Honda, meanwhile, wants Barry to return to healthcare reform – the issue that consumed more than a year between 2009 and 2010 – to expand on the state-based insurance exchanges enacted under the Affordable Care Act. "We've got more to do," he said. "There should be a federal exchange." There's also an emerging push for the Democrats to revisit climate change legislation next year, an issue House Democrats addressed in 2009, only to watch Senate leaders ignore their proposal. The vote was a liability for a number of conservative-leaning House Democrats in the 2010 elections that swept the Republicans into the majority, but Welch argued the issue isn't as partisan as it seems.
"By focusing on energy efficiency, where there's a lot of common ground, [we could] create jobs and it would achieve one-third of the goal of reducing carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050," he said. "That's a big deal." Barry, for his part, is said to be optimistic that Republicans would be more willing to compromise in a second term than they were in his first. But most Republicans, as do most Americans, see this climate change nonsense for exactly what is it. A scheme by Democrats to further destroy our economy and their attempt to rake in more money which they can then use to buy more votes. "My hope is that when the American people speak in this election, if I'm fortunate enough to be elected but we still have a Republican-controlled House, that some of the fever breaks and the particular goal of beating me no longer holds," Barry told Ohio's Plain Dealer Thursday.
Still, the window to act on significant legislative changes will likely be short, as the fiscal cliff debate could extend well into 2013, leaving little room to maneuver before the campaign season launches for the 2014 midterms. Asked how Barry should spend his political capital if he wins reelection, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, leader of the Congressional ‘Bonehead’ Caucus (CBC) offered up this little tidbit of advice. "Carefully," he warned. "Carefully." Adding, "Whatever we go after first has to be a bipartisan issue, whether it's cyber-security, whether it's payroll tax, whether it's the doc fix in Medicare, whether it's the jobs bill – whatever it is – we've got to do it together." He said, "Because even if we have the votes and try to run over them, the hostility will be so great here on the Hill that the midterm will very likely create problems." Gee ya think? Is this guy Cleaver a genius or what?
Ok folks, so what’s it gonna be? Did you notice here in everything that these scumbag Democrats said, there was no mention of drilling for more oil in an effort to bring gas prices down? No mention of how we can free up the private sector in an effort to encourage job growth? Not mention of how go about making realistic or serious spending cuts or honest and meaningful tax reform. Nope, not a word. It’s all about increasing the size of the public sector, about further driving up the cost of healthcare by increasing further, if that’s possible, government control, pouring more and more money into bogus ‘green technologies’ that does absolutely nothing to bring down energy costs or put people back to work. It’s all nothing more than a monumental boondoggle! This supposed wish-list now being assembled by the Democrats does nothing to fix what ails this country. It does nothing but move us from intensive care and into the morgue.
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