By Rick Manning
“Because, thanks to their efforts,
we really do have a new foundation that's been laid. We are better
positioned than we have been in a very long time. A new future is ready
to be written. We've set the stage for this American moment. And
I'm going to spend every minute of my last two years making sure that we seize
it. “My presidency is entering the
fourth quarter; interesting stuff happens in the fourth quarter. And I'm
looking forward to it.” - Obama
Six years ago, candidate Barack
Obama promised that if elected he would fundamentally transform America.
Entering his seventh year in office, he has declared the foundation of America
to be destroyed, replaced with a new one laid during his Administration.
And even in the face of what should
be a united Congressional front against his transformational policy
initiatives, the President promises to seize the new “American moment.” Does
this sound like a President who is planning on working constructively together
with Congress in a bi-partisan way to solve our nation’s problems? No, coming
off of one of the worst electoral defeats in history, Obama has declared
victory and promised to press his advantage. What could have emboldened him?
It was the Republicans in Congress,
whose leaders raised the white flag on the Omnibus budget conceding to Obama’s
priorities and breaking the fiscal constraints under sequester. Obama
gained his victory on amnesty without a real fight. He won full funding
for his rogue EPA for the rest of the year without a real fight. He won
funding for Obamacare for the rest of the year without a real fight. How could
this be true?
Republican leaders announced in
advance that they would not use the only real tool at their disposal – refusal
to fund Obama’s priorities. With that off the table, Obama knew he had once
again played the role of the Harlem Globe Trotters against Republican
Leadership’s hapless Washington Generals trouncing them while making them look
like fools.
Now, America needs to brace itself
for an emboldened Obama. A man who is energized by anarchist mobs
blocking streets and shopping malls. A man who proceeds imposing economy
destroying environmental regulations that have been rejected by Congress with the
intent of destroying our capacity to generate electricity through EPA and other
regulations. A man freed from the burdens and restraints of
representative government, by the failure of the Neville Chamberlain wing of
the Republican Party to stop him.
President Barack Obama promised to
transform America. He believes he has laid a new foundation, the old
foundation built around individual rights protected from government intrusion
uprooted for something else.
It is up to Congress to wake up and
prove him wrong by throwing sand in his gears every step of the way by denying
any new authority for the President (including Trade Promotion Authority),
stopping every one of his nominees until regulatory overreaches are undone, and
ending the illegal amnesty using the power of the purse early next year.
There can be no conciliation with a
partner like Obama who’s idea of fundamental transformation doesn’t include
co-equal branches of government. Unless this Congress accepts the reality
that this is not the Washington, D.C. they wish it to be, but instead one
facing a clear and present danger to the survival of the Constitution, and
hence the Republic itself, Obama will continue finishing his transformation,
while everyone pretends otherwise. It’s time for Congress to stop him or
forever hold their peace.
Rick Manning is the vice president
public policy and communications for Americans for Limited Government.
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