The Obamessiah’s Waterloo

Posted by Larry Miller on July 22, 2009 under How | Be the First to Comment

Many years ago, Stonewall Jackson, the country singer, not the southern general, popularized the song, Waterloo. It told the story of, not only, Napoleon, but of other ill-fated characters and with each one it illustrated how their own actions sowed the seeds of their own destruction. The same is true of President Obama. He is pushing hard to get two major pieces of legislation passed quickly because he knows it will not happen later in his term of office.

If we keep on spreading the truth, letting people know what is going on, we have an opportunity to stop the Obamessiah. Sure it may be easier after people see their heating bills “skyrocket”, to use the man’s own term and their Medicare go away in favor of a rationed plan. However none of us really want to see our country go through this gut-wrenching process. We must tell our story in a way that shows we are right and the statists are wrong. We must pursue freedom with passion and with clarity so as to bring along those who sense something is wrong, but can’t quite articulate it and don’t know what to do.

Dick Morris has some vary good points about shooting down cap and trade as well as socialized health care. While we are still looking at four years of pretty miserable conditions, it is possible that with six months of concentrated effort we can successfully neuter this president and thwart many of his plans for us. It is imperative that his momentum be stopped as the first step in turning the corner and heading back to a free society.

Barack Hussein Obama’s sinking popularity numbers will make him a liability in congressional and senate races next year in all but the really hardcore coastal states. Not that many of us are inclined to cut any slack to those who voted for the various wasteful stimulus bills, or any of the other nonsense that has come out of the logic free zone we call congress, the political class needs to see the president as a toxic liability, both personally and legislatively.

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Even Democrats who tell us they completely support the presidents plans need to feel the heat of public anger and understand its impact on their re-election prospects. They need to believe can return to our good graces… a road to redemption as Glenn Beck has called it because if they think we will hate them no matter what they do, they may as well stick with the party guy and at least temporarily cut out one source of grief.

I am writing this in the hope that through bold, decisive steps we can shorten the struggle and make the hole we dig ourselves out of less all consuming. Think of it as the nuclear option used against Japan to end World War II. By dropping these awful weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, President Truman brought the conflict to a speedy conclusion. Had he not done so, American forces would have had to physically conquer the island nation. It could have been done but at a cost of many more American and Japanese lives.

So by working extra hard on these two bills, we may be setting the stage, not only for their defeat, but the defeat of who-knows-what else our Kenyan president has in mind for us. Sure we would still have to deal with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, but much of their power can be diminished by depriving them of the majority in one or both houses next year… which will be an added benefit of exposing the totalitarian stench coming from the District of Columbia. So won’t you join us in this Sprint to Victory?