According to NPR, a liberal source favorable to the
president, Obama submitted a budget proposal for 2014
due from him by law by February 2013 two months
late. According to their report he did so as a
deliberate political maneuver. Apparently he
wanted to see what the two houses of Congress would
write instead in order to craft his own strategy.
1 On this note alone,
Republicans could not become culpable for a shutdown
until as much time had elapsed after the deadline as
Obama had deliberately delayed the process on the front
end.
If this showdown began with an Obama maneuver, what are
the odds that the shutdown itself is his artifice as
well. I think it odd that a Presidential order to
shut down the government could be the House's
fault. Personal and corporate budgets do not
immediately implode at the first moment of cessation of
income. Usually some money in surplus allows time
to continue operation until some means can be made to
correct the problem. If by chance they were
operating on a deficit basis, a shutdown might would be
forced even before an arbitrary deadline. This
makes Obama's precisely timed shutdown order a
discretionary action, one calculated to gain political
ground against his adversaries.
Some might argue that the objection to Obamacare is
unreasonable. However, there is much support among
ordinary people for those with courage to stand against
Obamacare. Those people and their representatives
have a right to have their views addressed without some
machination to tamper with legislative process to push
through an unpopular agenda. If Obama had instead
postponed the shutdown until the funds were actually
gone, there would have been time for some expression of
this voter sentiment, not to mention the two months
stolen for intrigue at the beginning of the process.
Any doubts about this being a Democratic political ruse
should be quelled by many disclosures of abuse of power
by this political machine during its reign. First
Obama declares the coal industry will go bankrupt as a
result of policies he will pursue. His actual
words in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle
on Jan 17, 2008 are:
"So, if somebody wants to build a coal
fired plant they can. It's just that it will
bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a
huge sum for all that - ah - greenhouse gas that's
being emitted."2
Then his EPA appointee declares intent to go after
corporations just to make an example of them.
3 What about IRS
harassment of conservative and Tea Party political
groups meant to silence the voices of opposing blocks of
voters during the 2012 election cycle. Most
recently, homosexuals appointed to power in the
Air Force by Obama are now openly and brazenly
persecuting Christian officers and soldiers.
4 Many
other examples are perhaps too numerous to mention.
Then there is the matter of the character of liberal
politics. Alignment with sin-activism removes
character from liberal politics. Certainly, the
actual sin-activists in politics have no restraint of
conscience to prevent them from doing any evil to
advance their aims. Having said this, Obama's
agenda to queer America and his support of abortion –
especially the particular form of partial-birth abortion
which is undeniable infanticide – lines him up among
these. Obama's complicated religious background
perhaps allows him conscience to deal dirty politics as
well. I do not question, like some, his conversion
to liberal Christianity. But he was a formerly a
Muslim and the form of Christianity he joined would not
compel him to give up all of his prior Muslim
beliefs. It is not implausible that he could hold
a Muslim view of getting even with his
adversaries. The possibility that his faith could
mingle liberal Christianity and Islam is suggested by
the pattern of behavior of his fellow churchgoer Oprah
Winfrey. I don't think it passed anyone's notice
that Oprah has promoted New Age spirituality for many
years while claiming to be a Christian. So too,
any Muslim behavior on Obama's part would not be any
real suprise.
In sum, Obama's long-term strategy is not fair
play. Instead he appears to want to damage the
reputation of conservative politics badly enough to
ensure that his brand of liberalism can continue
unopposed long into the future, a future with no place
for historical America or its values. If you hold
those who stand against this evil to be heroes, consider
that those who haven't are a tribute to the fear the
ruthless liberal propaganda machine can generate.
Finally, this is not a time to give way to the enemies
of historical America because those who trust God have
his help.
... but the people who
know their God will display strength and take
action. (Daniel 11:32 NASB)
1National Public
Radio, "Obama's Late Budget Submission A Strategic
Move," www.npr.org,
link to article.
2Link to a supporting
YouTube video: link.
3Ben Wolfgang, "EPA
official apologizes for ‘crucify’ comments - Bragged
in video of toughness toward energy industry,"
Washington Times, April 26, 2012.
4Todd Starnes, "Airmen
say Air Force is punishing evangelical Christians,"
September 30, 2013, foxnews.com, link to article.
Document History
October 2, 2013 Created.
October 3, 2013 Corrected some grammar and
improved some wording.
October 6, 2013 Corrected some grammar.
