America’s friends and enemies alike are waiting for the results of the 2012 election as much as Americans themselves. \u00a0Perhaps more. \u00a0Much is at stake, but for many reasons, the most valuable tactic of delay is the least-mentioned. \u00a0The clock is running out on Obama, and those who can wait are holding out in civil fashion for better days. \u00a0Those who cannot are scrambling to survive. \u00a0But if Obama wins in 2012, all bets are off.<\/p>\n
The American right is not much given to complaining about its government overseas, so that the perennial threats made by famous but inconsequential people to move abroad are not a feature of unpopular democrat administrations. \u00a0Neither are tens of thousands of YouTube videos and online still photos with perky but empty-headed liberals holding up little signs apologizing to the world for an American president who stands up to bad guys. \u00a0On purpose. \u00a0No, the right tends to keep its overt messaging within the borders, while admitting of course that the internet age features a remarkable amount of slippage. \u00a0This blog post, while intended for a domestic audience, may well be read by people overseas, but that is a factor of the times, not of dog-whistles or chicanery.<\/p>\n
[pullquote]Obama’s back-handed reduction of the Dalai Lama was beneath contempt, and his betrayal of Israel is personal and bitter[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n
Besides which, those overseas like Lech Walesa do not need American blogs to know the score. \u00a0Ahmadinejad and Assad can probably wait out the Obama administration. \u00a0They certainly have little to fear in the meanwhile. \u00a0People like Qaddafi and Mubarak have played their hands badly. \u00a0If not so ham-fisted, they would likely have been alright, “Arab Spring” or no. \u00a0We are sending aid to the known devil in China and the unknown in Egypt, while serially betraying allies like Britain and Poland. \u00a0 Obama’s back-handed reduction of the Dalai Lama was beneath contempt, and his betrayal of Israel is personal and bitter. \u00a0The president has not only chosen the wrong side in the increasingly likely 2011 3rd Intifada — he has made it all but inevitable.<\/p>\n
The American right also frowns upon domestic expressions of hostility against a sitting president, or any duly elected official. \u00a0I won’t claim that the right is squeaky clean on this score, especially as our political discourse, like our society, becomes more debased. \u00a0Cite some examples of the right behaving poorly, and I’ll probably agree. \u00a0But few would argue that the right can even begin to match the amount of truly hateful, reckless speech and imagery generated by the left, continuously, interminably, while a Republican is in office.<\/p>\n
[pullquote]We have seen who will listen and who will not, and it has become perilously clear that the GOP leadership is not listening.[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n
The left talks a big game, both in their complaints and their Gore-spattered fantasies, but there’s nothing behind their papier-mache heads (ask Solzhenitsyn). \u00a0Their constitutional understanding is as narrow as their threats are shallow. \u00a0If George W. Bush and his administration had committed a tenth of the egregious, repeated, and gleeful abuses of the Constitution that this administration has in two years, the parades, demonstrations, isolated violence, organized mob scenes, and chanting throngs of spittle-flecked Marxists would all have been, well, more so. \u00a0One thing the left does not understand is that the American right, especially the Tea Party, is just as angry as the left ever was in their frothing and immature rages against the machine. \u00a0The difference is that the right knows when to shut up, for the most part, and the time for talking is past. \u00a0We have seen who will listen and who will not, and it has become perilously clear that the GOP leadership is not listening. \u00a0The Tea Party is widely rumored to have dissolved, splintered, tired of the fight, become irrelevant… don’t believe a word of it. \u00a0That’s CNN’s take, and it is incorrect, oddly enough.<\/p>\n
[pullquote]This is NASCAR politics, and what matters is American Steel, not Republichrome[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n
Just by way of example, there is a reason that Newt Gingrich and Ed Rollins were savaged for their transgressions, while Tim Pawlenty will not be punished for his sharp critique of “ObamneyCare”. \u00a0Ryan and Palin are Tea Party favorites, whereas Mitt Romney sank his shot at the nomination when he failed to disavow that awful RomneyCare. \u00a0This is not the showroom floor. \u00a0This is NASCAR politics, and what matters is American Steel, not Republichrome. \u00a0If you’re waiting for the Tea Party to smack down Pawlenty, you’ve confused them with CNN.<\/p>\n
American labor is in a bind. \u00a0Typically business is more on the American right than left, increasingly so as the left becomes ever more closely wedded to Marxism not only by logical extension, but now by name, word, and deed. \u00a0American labor is not stupid and knows that businesses create jobs, and that a healthy business environment is how they will get their jobs back. \u00a0At the same time, they feel that they are championed by labor organizations like Richard Trumka’s AFL-CIO, because it kicks business ass and extorts dollars to spread around its favored unions. \u00a0In the end, however, American labor knows that real businesses create real jobs, and that the fanfare surrounding the Child-King must end. \u00a0The American worker more than any other figure is liable to feel isolated and helpless before the Marxist tide, and would feel the least to lose by fellow-travelling for a bit. \u00a0They will be forgiven.<\/p>\n
American business is in a bind as well, with a more clear-cut but rather more difficult prognosis: wait him out. \u00a0Only a fool would risk what’s left while this man is in office. \u00a0Four years seemed like an eternity from November 2008, and from November 2009 it seemed even longer. \u00a0By now, however, they have figured out how to ration the biscuits and water to make it past the next line, and steeled themselves for the duration. \u00a0Between the President’s Marxist speech to the US Chamber of Commerce and his NLRB proxy war against Boeing on behalf of the AFL-CIO, American business has been slapped hard with more than enough evidence to make the call. \u00a02012 can’t come fast enough to save American capital, unless the unthinkable happens, and this president is re-elected.<\/p>\n
[pullquote]it may be irrational exuberance to hang on quietly in the grim hopes that you are not killed before daybreak[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n
Markets which have not collapsed can thank a series of nonsense maneuvers by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, and the Congressional Budget Office’s frankly defunct accounting rules. \u00a0These idiots have bought time at a steep price, when the only real asset the markets possess is patience, if they can hold out for November 2012. \u00a0That is when the world financial system will know if the cavalry is coming or not. \u00a0At this stage, it may be irrational exuberance to hang on quietly in the grim hopes that you are not killed before daybreak in this zombie movie of an economy, but it’s all that there is.<\/p>\n
Only the threat of re-election prevents this thoroughly Marxist man from going full-out Communist. \u00a0He flirts and frolics with it in his speeches, imagery, and policies to such an extent that I no longer wonder whether I should use the C-word. \u00a0His US Chamber speech cured me of that. \u00a0If you have not read it, please do. It is most informative. \u00a0If he should be re-elected, America’s enemies will have a clear window of opportunity. \u00a0Sure, he’ll be a bit more savvy by then, but he’ll be no more intelligent, and no more motivated to put the economy above his ideological obsession with converting America from a successful, productive, powerful beacon of freedom to just another temperate landmass with lots of farmers and no intellectuals.<\/p>\n
[pullquote]You don’t see conservatives begging foreign powers to wait out a Communist president. \u00a0We know that everybody must do what they must do[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n
You don’t see conservatives begging foreign powers to wait out a Communist president. \u00a0We know that everybody must do what they must do, and that those who have faith in America will factor that into their necessary calculations. \u00a0Our allies will still be our allies, if they survive, and our enemies will still be our enemies. \u00a0The fact is that there is no reset button for the butchers running Russia, and talking doesn’t help with Iran when we understood each other perfectly well for the past thirty years.<\/p>\n
The best thing we have going for us is not the meaningless debt ceiling. \u00a0We can blow past that for two years running, and nobody will care. \u00a0After all, we have several times operated with no budget and no deal, with no lasting effects, and heaven knows, this administration needs no puny laws to do its bidding.<\/p>\n
America’s credit rating is perhaps the best indicator of global acceptance of American Exceptionalism. \u00a0The world accepts it not only a valid concept, but an ongoing and legitimate fact on the ground. \u00a0The thing that keeps our credit good and our dollar from cratering completely is some level of global confidence that the Republicans will take control in 2012. \u00a0We may even take a downgrade next year, which would be unprecedented, but survivable. \u00a0It would leave a mark, but would also serve as a well-timed rebuke, and a reminder not to put the Communists in charge ever again. \u00a0 The world believes that Obama will be defeated in 2012. \u00a0That is what the entire world is waiting to see. \u00a0Everything depends upon it.<\/p>\n
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America’s friends and enemies alike are waiting for the results of the 2012 election as much as Americans themselves. \u00a0Perhaps more. \u00a0Much is at stake, but for many reasons, the most valuable tactic of delay is the least-mentioned. \u00a0The clock is running out on Obama, and those who can wait are holding out in civil fashion for better days. \u00a0Those who cannot are scrambling to survive. \u00a0But if Obama wins in 2012, all bets are off.<\/p>\n
The American right is not much given to complaining about its government overseas, so that the perennial threats made by famous but inconsequential people to move abroad are not a feature of unpopular democrat administrations. \u00a0Neither are tens of thousands of YouTube videos and online still photos with perky … Continue reading