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So, confess Obama, you also cheated as well. President Barack Obama said tauntingly as he stared across the glossy oak table in the White House Roosevelt Room at a bewildered Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner of Ohio.
The skies over Washington, D.C., were grayer and the air was crisper outside than the last time—August—that Boehner had sat in the Roosevelt Room discussing with Obama the outlines of what he liked to call the “Grand Bargain.”
Like the weather outside, the tone inside the White House had changed significantly from their previous August confab. Gone was the willing Obama looking for a fair deal on the nation’s out-of-control budget.
That Obama had been replaced by the arrogant and intransigent man seated across from Boehner, staring coolly at his Republican counterpart. It was December 2012, just a few weeks after Obama had won an historic reelection over the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan Republican presidential ticket of that year.
Obama took his electoral victory to mean he could clear the decks in the nation’s capital. He wanted to hit the reset button legislatively because the forty-fourth president was under the erroneous belief that his reelection in November had given him enormous political capital to spend—and to push the Republicans in Washington around.
A History of Extremism from the Democrats
What the president did not understand (or care to acknowledge) was that his victory
in 2012 did not yield a mandate. The Republicans lost the White House. But they had expanded their majority in the United States House of Representatives. While that may not have as much cachet with the mainstream media or the Democrats, who held the White House at the time, in our system of government that gave the GOP leverage.
The Grand Bargain was Boehner’s idea.
A lifelong conservative from humble beginnings in Ohio, Boehner came to Washington in the early 1990s as a reformer and someone opposed to the way the government mishandled the Savings-and-Loan Crisis. He soon became a key leader under the-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) where he proudly brandished his conservative bona fides in the heady culture wars that defined 1990s America.
Boehner wasn’t a firebreather, though. He was a technocrat at heart.
He believed in the institution of the House of Representatives and thought that once he was made speaker, he could navigate for the Republican Party and the country the tough road of balancing America’s bloated budget by working with President Obama and his Democrats. When Obama approached Boehner about what could be done about the budget in 2011, shortly after the Republicans also swept the midterms that year.
Boehner countered Obama with an even larger vision: the Grand Bargain.
It was the kind of thing a man with Boehner’s experience and insight into the nation’s capital could envisage. He and Obama would not just address the immediate budgetary concerns. Instead, they would come up with a comprehensive solution to Washington’s chronic overspending problem. Throughout 2011, Boehner engaged in covert shuttle diplomacy, secreting himself between his elephantine congressional offices and
the White House.
Few others in the House GOP knew what Boehner was up to.
Not even his number two in the House, then-Majority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA),
who was a firebreather in terms of ideology. Ultimately, Cantor and the other House GOP members discovered what Boehner had been up to and tried to stop it. When that didn’t work, Cantor started accompanying Boehner to the White House, making his visits with the forty-fourth president increasingly hostile. Even that complication did not stop
Obama and Boehner from coming to a rough agreement.
In exchange for $800 billion in revenue increases, the Democrats would give the Republicans sweeping cuts on multiple social programs. The Senate Republicans messed up Boehner’s carefully laid plans when they offered additional revenue increases. Once Obama got wind of that, he put the squeeze on Boehner, to try to force Boehner to concede more revenue increases. This was a non-starter for Boehner, who understood that his Tea Party Caucus would prevent that from happening.
Obama knew it, too. The president iced the Grand Bargain.
Boehner never stopped fighting for that deal, though. He knew the Grand Bargain could solidify his place in history, and he believed it would also save the country from economic oblivion. Once the 2012 Presidential Election was decided in favor of Obama, that all changed. The president wasn’t interested in talking to Boehner. He wanted instead to dictate to the Republicans. Obama’s refusal to take the deal that he initially favored; to change the rules of the game mid-game, killed any chance of the Grand Bargain from happening.
The Fiscal Cliff
Today, we are at the end of that long road that Obama-Biden placed us on.
On June 1 of this year, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ominously warned that the
US government will run out of money. June is the time when the debt ceiling must be raised to avoid any significant economic downturn. The problem is that Washington’s leaders have known about that date for months. Yet, they did nothing to address it.
May 9—just a few weeks before the US economy is set to default, President Joe Biden is slated to meet with the current Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to begin negotiations. Is that enough time? Or will the negotiations merely devolve into a partisan screaming match that exacerbates the Washington division rather than ameliorate it?
READ: Biden says not yet ready to invoke 14th Amendment to avoid debt default.
The divided U.S. Congress is running out of time to raise the federal government’s
$31.4 trillion debt ceiling, with the Treasury Department warning it could be unable to
pay its bills as soon as June 1. If Congress fails to act, some legal experts say Biden has another option to avert a crisis: Invoke the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ensure the United States can continue to pay its bills. Section Four of the amendment, adopted after the 1861-1865 Civil War, states that the “validity of the public debt of the United States … shall not be questioned.”
But the clause has been largely unaddressed by the courts. Some experts have suggested that Biden could invoke this amendment to raise the debt ceiling on his own if Congress does not act. That would almost certainly lead to prolonged legal wrangling, which could unsettle financial markets. White House and other administration officials have examined the possibility, but many have dismissed it as a last-ditch solution unlikely to survive a court challenge, according to a person briefed on those discussions.
The Grand Bargain
Was an attempted political compromise during the 2011 budget debates in
the United States Congress. Lawmakers were under pressure to pass a budget before
automatic spending cuts known as sequestration took effect on August 4, 2011.[1][2]
President Barack Obama advocated historic cuts to social security, Medicare, and Medicaid, in exchange for an increase in federal taxes on upper income individuals, with the goal of reducing the federal deficit.[3][4]
Moderates from both the Republican and the Democratic party were in favor of the compromise. However, the Tea Party faction of the Republican party firmly objected to tax increases, causing Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner to not support the deal.[3] The progressive faction of the Democratic party was opposed to cuts to social security and the social safety net. An effort to defend Social Security was spearheaded by independent Senator of Vermont Bernie Sanders.[5] Due to the opposition arrayed
against it, the compromise failed.[6][7][8]
The Fruits of Obama’s Failure
The Bottom Line: though, there is a pathway forward to resolving the debt ceiling
issue forever. By rehabilitating the Boehner-era Grand Bargain, Washington can move the United States toward long-term fiscal solvency. Alas, just as with Obama, the Democrats are far too extreme to broker any kind of negotiation with the Republicans on this matter. They will instead caterwaul about how crazy the Republicans are and watch as everything burns—blaming the Republicans all the way. President Obama’s ego put us here over a decade ago. Let’s pray that both Biden and Kevin McCarthy can work something out. Otherwise, it’s another Great Depression for us. I won’t hold my breath.
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Brandon J. Weichert is a former Congressional staffer and geopolitical analyst who is
a contributor at The Washington Times, as well as at American Greatness and the Asia Times. He is also the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower (Republic Book Publishers), Bio hacked: China’s Race to Control Life (May 16),
and The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy (July 23).
Weichert can be followed via Twitter @WeTheBrandon.
Obama Bin Laden – Bing video
Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/ (listen) bə-RAHK hoo-SAYN oh-BAH-mə;[1] born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president of the United States.[2]
Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004, and worked as a civil rights lawyer before holding public office.
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago. In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
Turning to elective politics, he represented the 13th district in the Illinois Senate from 1997 until 2004, when he ran for the U.S. Senate. Obama received national attention in 2004 with his March Senate primary win, his well-received keynote address at the July Democratic National Convention, and his landslide November election to the Senate.
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, romanized: Usāmah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAwaḍ ibn Lādin; 10 March 1957[6] – 2 May 2011[7]) was a Saudi Arabian-born[8] militant[9] and founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization Al-Qaeda. The group is designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union, and various other countries. Under bin Laden, Al-Qaeda was responsible for the 11 September attacks in the United States and many other mass-casualty attacks worldwide.[10][11][12]
As a member of the wealthy Bin Laden family, Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia.[13] His father was Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire from Hadhramaut, Yemen, and the founder of the construction company, Saudi Binladin Group.[14]
His mother, Alia Ghanem, was from a secular middle-class family in Latakia, Syria.[15]
He studied at university in the country until 1979, when he joined the Mujahideen forces in Pakistan fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He helped to fund the Mujahideen by funneling arms, money, and fighters from the Arab world into Afghanistan, and gained popularity among many Arabs.[16]
In 1988, he formed al-Qaeda.[17] He was banished from Saudi Arabia in 1992, lost his Saudi citizenship in 1994,[13] and shifted his base to Sudan until US pressure forced him to leave in 1996. After establishing a new base in Afghanistan, he declared a war against the United States, launching a series of bombings and other violent related attacks.[18]
His involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings landed him on the American
Federal Bureau of Investigation‘s (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and
Most Wanted Terrorists.[19][20][21]
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Barack Obama’s religious background is also more diverse than that of most prominent politicians. But it may prove to be representative of future generations of Americans who grow up in an increasingly diverse America. His mother was raised by non-practicing Christians; his father was raised a Muslim but was an atheist by the time he had married Obama’s mother.
Obama’s stepfather was also Muslim, but of an eclectic kind who could make room for animist and Hindu beliefs. Neither Obama nor his mother were ever atheists or identified with atheism in any way, but she raised him in a relatively secular household where he learned about religion and the different beliefs people had about them.
Not Raised in a Religious Household,
in his book “The Audacity of Hope”, Barack Obama writes:
I was not raised in a religious household. For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness. However, in her mind, a working knowledge of the world’s great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology.
On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. In some ways, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.
Some Religious Education
As a child in Indonesia, Obama studied for two years at one Muslim school and then two years at a Catholic school. In both places he experienced religious indoctrination, but in neither case did the indoctrination take hold. During Quranic studies he made faces and during Catholic prayers, he would look around the room.
Chooses Baptism in Christian Church as an Adult
Eventually, Barack Obama abandoned this non-conformism and skepticism to be baptized as an adult in the Trinity United Church of Christ, a denomination which emphasizes the freedom of the individual conscience over adherence to creeds or hierarchical authority. This is similar to traditional Baptist Christianity and something that is honored more in theory than in practice when it comes to the Southern Baptist Convention.
Several historical creeds and catechisms are used by the United Church of Christ as statements of their faith, but none are used as “tests of faith” which a person must swear upon.
Beliefs of the United Church of Christ
A 2001 study by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research found the denomination’s churches are fairly evenly split between conservative and liberal/progressive beliefs. Official policy statements from the church leaders tend to be more liberal than conservative, but the denomination is organized in such a way that disagreements by individual churches are allowed.
Is Obama The Antichrist? 100% PROOF THAT HE IS/ WILL BE.
An “analyst” trained in the very, very discredited “Bible Code” method, which tries to predict future events through letters in the Bible, has come out with some big news: President Obama is in the Bible Code, and he is probably the Antichrist.
Bible Code-breaker Jonathan Wright appeared on “Trunews” last week, where he told
host Rick Wiles that Obama is either the Antichrist or the harbinger of the Antichrist.
Not only does the Bible Code prove this to be the case, says Wright, but so does
Obama’s non-existent Muslim wedding ring.
Wiles: So either Barack Obama is the Man of Sin, commonly known
as the Antichrist, the Bible doesn’t say ‘Antichrist’ it says, ‘Man of Sin.’
Wright: That’s right.
Wiles: Either Barack Obama is the Man of Sin or he is strongly
connected to the Man of Sin or the spirit of Antichrist.
Wright: That’s right. Those are my only — I’ve tried to look at this as an investigation not with an agenda, by the way, but what I’ve come up with those have to be the possibilities. Let’s just face it, he’s got a ring on that says, ‘There’s no God but Allah and Mohammad is his Messenger.’ Now, by definition, that’s Antichrist.
As Wright explained, he searches for Obama’s name in the Bible Code alongside terms relating to Satan: “look up the ‘Man of Sin’ or ‘Beelzebub’ or any name has a connection to Satan or Lucifer and then go and see if there’s a connection to him, and usually they both confirm, back and forth the same thing.” President Obama on Atheism | Real Time with Bill Maher (Web Exclusive) – Bing video
For example, the United Church of Christ is the largest Christian denomination
to come out in favor of “equal marriage rights for all,” which means full marriage rights
for gay couples, but there are many individual churches which do not support this.
Other famous members of the United Church of Christ include Barry Lynn, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, Howard Dean, and Jim Jeffords.
Barack Obama Marxist Muslim Background – Bing video
Obama’s Marxist-Leninist Economics: Fact and Fiction.
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“A fair description of Obama and his goals is to say that he is ‘an interventionist, corporatist, statist, Big Government progressive, free-market-hating control freak
who favors economic policies of a Marxist-Leninist flavor.'”
It seems inevitable in an election year people on both ends of the ideological spectrum resort to simplistic labels. On the political right, many call President Obama a socialist, because that is a simple, familiar term with the desired negative connotations.
However, I agree with the actual socialists from the International Socialist Organization, the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, the Party of Socialism and Liberation, and the Socialist Party USA who uniformly and correctly observe that Obama is not a dictionary-definition socialist, because he has not called for the national government to nationalize the means of production.
The problem here is that the dictionary definition of “socialist” sets an almost impossibly high bar for any leader. Even Vladimir Lenin himself couldn’t meet that standard. Actually, Lenin tried to implement pure socialism when he first came to power, but when his policies caused the Russian economy to collapse all around him, in 1921 he abandoned literal socialism and replaced it with a pragmatic, expedient reform program called the “New Economic Policy.” Under NEP, Lenin permitted various privatizations while seeking state domination of the “commanding heights” of the economy.
President Obama has emulated Lenin in striving to increase state control over such “commanding heights” of our economy as energy, health care, finance, and education,
with smaller forays into food, transportation and undoubtedly areas I am overlooking. Besides mimicking some of Lenin’s policy strategies, Obama also has adopted Karl Marx’s strategies for gradually socializing an economy. Before I spell out the Marxian nature of many of Obama’s policies, let me emphasize that I am not calling Obama a “Marxist-Leninist, period.”
“Marxist-Leninist” connotes the brutal totalitarian police state of the late, unlamented Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. There is no comparison between Barack Obama’s statism and the genocidal, gulag-riddled regime of the Soviet Communists. That being said, Obama’s economic program is taken directly, if not deliberately, from the Marxist-Leninist playbook, and on that basis one may say that Obama tends toward Marxist-Leninist economics.
Here are examples, Marx’s wording being revised for simplicity’s sake:
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Besides adopting the Leninist strategy of seeking greater control over the commanding heights of the economy, if one reviews Marx’s 10-point platform for how to socialize a country’s economy in stages (“The Communist Manifesto,” chapter two), one finds that Team Obama and his congressional progressive allies have taken actions to further the goals laid out in all 10 of the planks in the Marx platform.
1. State control of real property. Team Obama repeatedly has thwarted the development of domestic energy supplies by asserting government ownership and asserting arbitrary regulatory control over massive acreage.
2. Progressive income taxes. Obama has an Ahab-like obsession with raising taxes on
“The rich” even though the top 1% of earners already pay 39% of the total income tax.
3. Abolition of inheritance. Obama favors re-institution of estate taxes.
4. Confiscation of the property of emigrants and rebels. Team Obama has declared war
on offshore tax havens, has sought legal jurisdiction to tax the offshore income of multi-national corporations as well as foreign citizens and banks that have any investments in America (causing Switzerland’s oldest bank to recommend that its clients avoid all American investments);
5. Centralization of the country’s financial system in the hands of the state.
Dodd-Frank was a huge step in this direction.
6. State control of means of communication and transportation. Team Obama has attempted to cow conservative media outlets like Fox News into submission through denunciation and has suggested reviving the so-called “fairness doctrine” and imposing heavier licensing fees on station owners. In the area of transportation, Obama insinuated government into the auto industry, has favored the high-speed rail boondoggle, and wishes he could compel us all to convert to “green transportation.”
7. Increase state control over means of production. Through his green energy subsidies,
his failed cap-and-trade scheme, now via EPA regulation, Obama has sought state control
over the industry on which most other industries depend—energy.
8 Establishment of workers’ armies. Obama has ramped up the number of Americans working for Uncle Sam by securing a large expansion of Americorps and winning passage of his Serve America Act. He also has done everything he could to strengthen labor unions.
9. Control over where people live. Team Obama doesn’t go quite this far, but one of the clear implications of cap-and-trade is that government could start to limit human mobility by controlling how far they can travel by capping energy consumption. In Brian Sussman’s book, “Eco-Tyranny,” you can read an executive order that Obama signed on October 5, 2009 that would “divide the country into sectors where all humans would be herded into urban hubs” while most of the land would be “returned to a natural state upon which humans would only be allowed to tread lightly.” (Marx wanted more equal distribution of the human population between town and country, whereas Obama favors urban concentration, but both want to control where people live.)
10. Free education. Obama has sought a federal government monopoly on student loans for higher education, and in his 2012 State of the Union Address, he called for additional funds for new federal education programs.
Clearly Barack Obama’s policies have a distinctly Marxian flavor to them.
Does that mean we are destined for socialism? Certainly not yet.
But Marx knew that his 10 strategies would move a society toward socialism.
The great free-market economist Ludwig von Mises agreed with Marx that government interventions breed further interventions and tend inexorably toward socialism.
(See his class essay, “Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism.”)
There is another vital point to understand about Marxist-Leninist economics:
The greatest damage is done to the middle class. With his customary bloodthirsty malevolence, Lenin said, “The way to crush the bourgeoisie [middle class] is to grind
them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
You may suppose that Obama isn’t implementing that aspect of Marxist-Leninist economics, but you would be mistaken. It’s true that income tax rates haven’t risen under Obama and inflation has only surfaced in a few areas (e.g., food and energy) but what you need to understand is that government borrowing is a tax hike on future taxpayers. Obama’s unprecedented deficit spending has been subsidized by the Federal Reserve, whose balance sheet has swelled as they have bought more and more federal debt (more than 60 percent of the total last year). Whenever the Fed’s zero interest rate policy ends, some combination of massive tax hikes and/or raging inflation will ensue, devastating the middle class.
The Storm is Upon U.S.
Already, Obama’s economic policies have hurt the middle class. They have enervated the job market, raised food and energy bills, and been accompanied by falling incomes and net worth. If these are the results of Obama’s partial steps in a Marxist-Leninist direction, imagine the damage that would be wrought by a fuller implementation of such an agenda.
In closing, I repeat that we should not recklessly call Obama a “Marxist-Leninist.” Although it’s too long and cumbersome a label for a generation addicted to sound bites and simplistic labels, a fair description of Obama and his economic goals is to say that he is “an interventionist, corporatist, statist, Big Government progressive, free-market-hating control freak who favors economic policies of a Marxist-Leninist flavor.”
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Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson is an adjunct faculty member, economist, and fellow for economic and social policy with The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College.