American Voters

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You may not like politics. But no matter your preference . You are 
an American & we all should read this.
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From: John Porter
To: Americans everywhere

I was sitting at my keyboard halfway through my writing a letter 
to you about how Barack Obama was fulfilling his pledge to "Transform 
America" by "Changing the fundamentals of America", so that our 
government would become the plantation, he the owner, and we the slaves, 
when this article by Steve McCann appeared in my in box. After checking 
it for accuracy, and finding it so, I put my writing on hold and here 
present it to you, for I could not say it better.

Obama's Second Term Transformation Plans

The 2012 election has often been described as the most pivotal 
since 1860. This statement is not hyperbole. If Barack Obama is 
re-elected the United States will never be the same, nor will it be able 
to re-capture its once lofty status as the most dominant nation in the 
history of mankind.

The overwhelming majority of Americans do not understand that 
Obama's first term was dedicated to putting in place executive power to 
enable him and the administration to fulfill the campaign promise of 
"transforming America " in his second term regardless of which political 
party controls Congress. That is why his re-election team is virtually 
ignoring the plight of incumbent or prospective Democratic Party office 
holders.

The most significant accomplishment of Obama's first term is to 
make Congress irrelevant. Under the myopic and blindly loyal leadership 
of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats have succeeded in creating 
an imperial and, in a second term, a potential dictatorial presidency.

During the first two years of the Obama administration when the 
Democrats overwhelming controlled both Houses of Congress and the media 
was in an Obama worshipping stupor, a myriad of laws were passed and 
actions taken which transferred virtually unlimited power to the 
executive branch.

The birth of multi-thousand page laws was not an aberration. 
This tactic was adopted so the bureaucracy controlled by Obama 
appointees would have sole discretion in interpreting vaguely written 
laws and enforcing thousands of pages of regulations they and not 
Congress would subsequently write.

For example, in the 2,700 pages of ObamaCare there are more than 
2,500 references to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. There 
are more than 700 instances when he or she is instructed that they 
"shall" do something and more than 200 times when they "may" take at 
their sole discretion some form of regulatory action. On 139 occasions, 
the law mentions that the "Secretary determines." In essence one person, 
appointed by and reporting to the president, will be in charge of the 
health care of 310 million Americans once ObamaCare is fully operational 
in 2014.

The same is true in the 2,319 pages of the Dodd-Frank Financial 
Reform Actwhich confers nearly unlimited power on various agencies to 
control by fiat the nation's financial, banking and investment sectors. 
The bill also creates new agencies, such as the Consumer Financial 
Protection Bureau, not subject to any oversight by Congress. This 
overall process was repeated numerous times with other legislation all 
with the intent of granting unfettered power to the executive branch 
controlled Barack Obama and his radical associates.

Additionally, the Obama administration has, through its 
unilaterally determined rule making and regulatory powers, created laws 
out of whole cloth. The Environmental Protection Agency on a near daily 
basis issues new regulations clearly out of their purview in order to 
modify and change environmental laws previously passed and to impose a 
radical green agenda never approved by Congress. The same is true of the 
Energy and Interior Departments among many others.

None of these extra-constitutional actions have been challenged 
by Congress. The left in America knows this usurpation of power is nearly 
impossible to reverse unless stopped in its early stages.

It is clearly the mindset of this administration and its 
appointees that Congress is merely a nuisance and can be ignored after 
they were able to take full advantage of the useful idiots in the 
Democrat controlled House and Senate in 2009-2010 and the Democrat Senate 
in the current Congress.

Additionally, Barack Obama knows after his re-election a 
Republican controlled House and Senate will not be able to enact any 
legislation to roll back the power previously granted to the Executive 
Branch or usurped by them. His veto will not be overridden as there will 
always be at least 145 Democratic members of the House or 34 in the 
Senate in agreement with or intimidated by an administration more than 
willing to use Chicago style political tactics.

The stalemate between the Executive and Legislative Branches 
will inure to the benefit of Barack Obama and his fellow leftists.

The most significant power Congress has is the control of the 
purse-strings as all spending must be approved by them. However, once 
re-elected, Barack Obama, as confirmed by his willingness to do or say 
anything and his unscrupulous re-election tactics, would not only 
threaten government shutdowns but would deliberately withhold payments to 
those dependent on government support as a means of intimidating and 
forcing a Republican controlled Congress to surrender to his demands, 
thus neutering their ability to control the administration through 
spending constraints.

Further, this administration has shown contempt for the courts 
by ignoring various court orders, e.g. the Gulf of Mexico oil drilling 
moratorium, as well as stonewalling subpoenas and requests issued by 
Congress. The Eric Holder Justice Department has become the epitome of 
corruption as part of the most dishonest and deceitful administration in 
American history. In a second term the arrogance of Barack Obama and his 
minions will become more blatant as he will not have to be concerned with 
re-election.

Who will be there to enforce the rule of law, a Supreme Court 
ruling or the Constitution? No one. Barack Obama and his 
fellow-travelers will be unchallenged as they run roughshod over the 
American people.

Many Republicans and conservatives dissatisfied with the 
prospect of Mitt Romney as the nominee for president are instead focused 
on re-taking the House and Senate. That goal, while worthy and necessary, 
is meaningless unless Barack Obama is defeated. The nation is not 
dealing with a person of character and integrity but someone of 
single-minded purpose and overwhelming narcissism. Judging by his 
actions, words and deeds during his first term, he does not intend to 
work with Congress either Republican or Democrat in his second term but 
rather to force his radical agenda on the American people through the 
power he has usurped or been granted.

The governmental structure of the United States was set up by 
the founders in the hope that over the years only those people of high 
moral character and integrity would assume the reins of power. However, 
knowing that was not always possible, they dispersed power over three 
distinct and independent branches as a check on each other.

What they could not imagine is the surrender and abdication of 
its constitutional duty by the preeminent governmental branch, the 
Congress, to a chief executive devoid of any character or integrity 
coupled with a judiciary essentially powerless to enforce the law when 
the chief executive ignores them

Conservatives, Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt 
Romney must come to grips with this moment in time and their historical 
role in denying Barack Obama and his minions their ultimate goal. All 
resources must be directed at that end-game and not merely controlling 
Congress and the various committee chairmanships.

Steve McCann
May 12, 2012

I would add but 6 words to those above mentioned, Conservatives, 
Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt Romney, to say "and we the 
American people also", must come to grips with this moment in time and 
our role in denying Barack Obama his life long goal of "transforming" us 
into his slaves working on his government plantation.

Please forward this to all you can, maybe together we can save 
America for ourselves and those who will follow after us.

May God bless America .