Don’t Exhale, It’s Bad for My Health

As if it couldn’t get any crazier, I saw this story today click here. There are several things that alarm me about this article, and I’ll discuss them one by one.

“In the face of GOP opposition…”, the Obama administration and its cronies in Congress are no longer even paying lip service to a bi-partisan approach to governance. They have the upper hand and they intend to use it for all it’s worth. This wouldn’t be such a problem if they were at least within one standard deviation of the political center in this country. But they are not even within three standard deviations, to put the problem into an engineering context.

“The administration also waved off concerns about the controversy…”, as though the blatant distortions and deception made evident by the recently exposed trail of emails is completely unrelated to the “science” behind the global climate “panic”.

“Democrats, though, claimed that the announcement Monday only strengthens the argument for government action.” This is so ridiculous. I can’t believe it was said with a straight face. The government made the announcement. Then the government claims that the announcement strengthens the argument for government action. How circular is that? Senator Boxer said, “the Senate has a duty to act on climate change legislation” and that they have a responsibility “to protect and defend our people from this threat”.

And then the U.S. deputy special envoy for climate change laid it all out in plain sight by saying that although they don’t expect a “legally binding treaty” they will pursue a “political arrangement” that could lead to such a legally binding treaty in the future! This should scare the daylights out of you, dear reader. They aren’t even trying to hide their intent. They are so brazen and confident in the strength of their position and the weakness of our resolve that they no longer feel the need to sneak around.

Civil Liberties

Although the Democrats have made little noises about the erosion of “liberties” that come as a consequence of the legislation passed to create Homeland Security, and all that entails, the truth of the matter is that they absolutely love the new controls this will give them over the population. Expect to see even greater abuses of power over the sovereignty of the people under the Democrats. The irony will be that they can use the excuse, conveniently provided by the bumbling Republicans, that they are being “strong for America”. The only departure in this arena will be the opening of our borders, as a sign that we are loving and caring and would never want to offend anyone by shutting them out.

The decline of the Right

There will be a determined effort to undermine the influence of the conservative Right in America. I believe the main thrust in this area will be in education. As we saw in a recent Truth Project lesson, if you can control the past (by teaching them only what you want them to know), then you can control the future. Expect to see more efforts to marginalize home-schooling, either by attaching onerous regulations to it, or by making it harder to obtain credit for having been home-schooled. I expect that all educational alternatives to the NEA-sponsored public education system will become harder and harder to maintain.

Dems in control

The Democratic candidate for President will win the election in 2008, by a landslide margin in the Electoral College. I would not be surprised if the Republican candidate gets fewer than 50 electoral votes.
The Democratic majority in both the House and Senate will be even larger after the 2008 elections.
The Democrats will take advantage of their legislative primacy by enacting a wide variety of legislation, all in a reaction to their pent up frustration with the “lack of progress” in making social advances due to the Republican obstructions of the Bush years. Due to the reactionary element behind this legislative push, much of the legislation will be quite a bit further left-of-center than we might usually expect from mainline legislation. They will succeed in this effort,
because they can,
the Republican party will be fractured, ineffective and still in a daze by the sheer enormity of their electoral losses,and because they are in control of, and masters of the effective use of the spin machine.