Sunday, July 22, 2012
Democrats are abandoning Barack Obama’s ship.
Last week Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi instructed
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to not attend this September’s
Democratic National Convention. Instead, Ms. Pelosi insisted, their time would
be better spent campaigning at home, rather than partying in Charlotte, N.C.
Ms. Pelosi’s announcement falls in line with the AFL-CIO,
which announced the previous week that it won’t be spending money to bankroll
the convention. And Pelosi and her Big Labor friends are in lockstep with
Democrat U.S. Senators Jon Tester of Montana, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, and
Joe Manchin of West Virginia – all of whom have chosen to avoid Barack Obama’s
nomination for a second term.
After three and a half years of Barack Obama radicalizing
their party, it now appears that some very powerful Democrats have had a
startling realization: the Obama agenda is both dysfunctional and destructive,
and has become politically lethal – Americans see that it bares little
resemblance to America’s time-honored history and heritage, and they have begun
to reject it outright.
Democrat candidates at all levels of government will go
about campaigning over these next few months, making promises based upon their
party platform without mentioning President Obama’s name. But as they talk about
the following agenda items – all of which appear in the “issues” section of
Democrats.Org, the national party’s web home – consider asking the candidates
the accompanying questions below.
Let’s start with the issue of “energy independence.”
Democrats tell us that “President Obama knows we can’t just drill our way to
lower gas prices,” and that their party is focused on “developing all of
America’s natural resources...” The President himself has said that he is
committed to an “all of the above” approach to energy policy, implying that
he’s okay with petroleum-based energy, along with the alternative energy
development that he’s promoted.
This sounds great- but consider asking Democrats this
question: “If President Obama is committed to an ‘all of the above’ strategy,
why did he reject the Keystone XL pipeline project that would have produced
employment opportunities from the Canadian border all the way to Texas?” In
reality, an “all of the above” approach to energy policy means “anything except
Big Oil” within the Obama worldview – but Democrats would prefer to ignore
this.
Your Democrat candidate may prefer, instead, to tell you
about their party’s agenda for “green energy.” On this point, you may wish to
ask “how do you feel about CBS News reporting that the Obama Administration has
lost $6.5 billion of our money already on what they described as ‘risky green
energy ventures?’ Did CBS lie to us?”
You may also hear from your Democrat candidate that the
party is fighting for “civil rights” on behalf of LGBT couples –which is to say
that they’re working for legal sanctioning of same-sex marriage. Mention to
them that Democrats in the California legislature are now working on a bill to
expand parental rights to more than two parents per child. Under the California
plan, any individual child could have three or perhaps more, legally identified
mommies and daddies. Then ask the Democrat, “Why would you limit the
structuring of marriages and families to only two adults? Given how President
Obama’s position on this issue has evolved, and given the highly evolved
position among California Democrats, aren’t you being a bit exclusionary and
narrow-minded, trying to limit a marriage or a family to only two adults?”
Concerns about the economy are top of mind for us all,
which puts Democrats in an awkward situation. Still, your Democrat candidate
will likely remind you that President Obama inherited a bad economy and is now
working to “creating jobs.” To this you may wish to simply ask “how is a job
created?” Then listen carefully to the response. It will likely be highly
amusing.
There are so many other questions to ask of your local
Democrat candidate, regardless of the issues the candidate raises. “Why does
the so-called ‘healthcare reform law’ expand the force and power of the
I.R.S.?” “Why are illegal aliens exempt from the Obamacare tax?” “Is it purely
coincidental that the executives of the ‘green energy’ companies that were
recipients of President Obama’s grants and loans were also donors to his
previous presidential campaign?” “Why has President Obama abandoned the work
requirements imposed on welfare recipients by President Bill Clinton?” “Why is
80% of the Department of Agriculture’s budget spent on food stamps, while less
than 20% of it is devoted to the farming industry?” “Why is the Obama
Administration ‘collaborating’ with the government of Mexico to give American
food stamps to illegal aliens?” Your local Democrat will probably not want to
hear these questions, and may have to admit that they disagree with parts of
the President’s agenda.
You might even hear your local Democrat say that they’re
abandoning the President’s agenda for America altogether – just like so many of
them have abandoned the President’s convention in September.
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