Casting your vote in the November 2010 elections may be the single most important thing you do all year.
Because these elections will be the critical turning point for Americas future.
For the definition of what is America.
For the chance to take back America.
In 2010, in this 234th year of our astonishingly successful American democracyat the dawn of the second decade of the new millenniumAmerica stands on the edge of an ideological precipice.
A precipice we cant back away from or ignore.
We stand overlooking a chasm that separates those who want our values, our culture, and our economic systems to endure from those who want to change everythingregardless of the consequences.
On the one side is the familiar America that we know and love.
On the other is a very different America: the dream of Barack Obama.
His dream is a pipe dream.
His dream is our nightmare.
Make no mistake: Fulfilling Obamas quixotic vision for our future would result in the systematic ruin of just about every segment of the America we know and love.
Dont underestimate him. Hes made no secret of his determination to radically alter our economic structure, to socialize our health-care system, to transform our foreign policies, and to compromise our national sovereignty.
Those are his plans. And hes deadly serious about fulfilling them.
But we can still stop himif we act together in November.
We still have the power to prevent him from ideologically devastating and economically paralyzing this great nation. Because thats what he plans to do.
But Obama can only accomplish his frightening agenda if the Democrats maintain their majority in one or both houses of Congress. We can block him by breaking his partys monopoly on the legislative branch.
And we can do it.
The change Barack Obama believes in is not the change we believe in.
His strategic mantra is REDISTRIBUTE!
He plans to redistribute wealth, to redistribute access to health care, and to raise taxes until it no longer makes sense for productive people to keep working. He intends to increase the Death Tax so that money thats already been taxed once is taxed againand then, yes, redistributed.
But thats not all. He envisions creating an expansive, and expensive, federal government that regulates, controls, and pays for an ever-increasing percentage of our daily lives. We repeat: His dream is truly our nightmare.
He wants to minimize the sovereignty of the U.S. government over the United States of America itself, and, instead, maximize the authority of foreign nations over U.S. economic policy. He enthusiastically embraces a One World philosophy, instead of validating the importance of individual nationsincluding the nation whose laws and people he swore an oath to protect.
As part of this One World strategy, he treats our longtime friends and allies with suspicion, while welcoming our enemies with nave tolerance. He insults the British and the French and betrays the Poles, while kowtowing to the North Koreans and the Iranians.
He agrees to allow the G-20 nations to replace the lower 48, Hawaii, and Alaska in deciding how much we can pay executives in private American corporations. If hes not stopped in 2010, hell try to place the entire American economy under the rule of the International Monetary Fund and the G-20 (including countries like Argentina, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Russia). Its in the works.
Heres how the New York Times described the G-20 agreements he endorsed in September 2009:
The agreementswould lead to much tighter regulation over financial institutions, complex financial instruments and executive pay. They could also lead to big changes and more outside scrutiny over the economic strategies of individual countries, including the United States.1
In a characteristic understatement, Obama predicted that the G-20 agreements would make our financial system far different .2
He might have chosen plainer words: far weaker, severely undermined, radically subverted, dangerously destabilized, and permanently damaged.
Obama believes in those kind of changes.
Changes that dont work and run counter to our best interest.
Fantasies that are extremely dangerous.
And the elections of 2010 may be our last chance to stop his plans for transforming the United States into a collectivist nanny state, a city-state of the world.
If we dont turn the tide this fall, it may well be too late. If we reelect another rubber-stamp Congress, Obama will be able to change America so fundamentally that we wont recognize it and likely wont be able to change it back.
Thats how precarious things are.
If we deprive Obama of his lackeys in Congress, however, his extreme program will go nowhere. Which is just where it belongs.
It used to be that both parties in Congress had members who were well-intentioned, independent thinkers. Congressional representatives who were courageous enough to diverge from their party and stand against legislation that went against their own beliefs and the strong will of their voters. But those days are over. If theres one clear lesson weve learned from the health-care debacle, it is that the existence of a moderate democrat is now nothing but a myth.
At this moment, no more moderate Democrats exist. The species is extinct.
Now, there are only Democrats. Generic democrats. Robots. Automatons. John F. Kennedyan independent-thinking Democrat of the old schoolonce said, Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.3 That is definitely the case today.
Todays Democrats are nothing but sheep, blindly following their shepherds, Reid and Pelosi, wherever they are driven. But unlike the biblical shepherds in Jeremiah 3:15, Reid and Pelosi do not lead their flock with knowledge and understanding.4 No, they are ignorant wolves masquerading in shepherds clothing, dominating their pack by dangling campaign contributions, gargantuan earmarks, and threats.
Thats how legislation is passed today: by bribing the members with expensive goodies for their district. By threatening them with primaries. By forcing them to pass legislation during the middle of the night. Legislation they havent even read. Legislation they opposed, on principle, only weeks before.
Legislation their constituents overwhelmingly oppose.
But they dont care. The Democrats in Congress have legislated with total disregard for public opinion.
The public knows that stimulus spending would not help the economy, but the Democrats passed it anyway.
The public wants less government, but the Democrats expanded it anyway.
The public opposes Obamas notion of health-care reform, knowing it will worsen the quality of care, but the Democrats passed it anyway.
They just dont care.
Its no surprise that the public approval rating for Congress dropped to 18 percent in a recent Gallup poll, and that eight out of every ten Americans have a negative view of Congress.
This gap between what America wants and how Congress votes has grown into a profound chasm. It must be reversed. Because if we return a Democratic Congress once again in 2010, we are forfeiting our own voice in the way were governed.
And we certainly dont want to do that. In fact, we must do just the opposite. We need to throw the Democrats and their leaders out of Congress and assert our right to a representative form of government. A Congress where our elected officials listen to their constituents, where they read and understand what theyre voting on and vote based on their conscience, not their party.
