Talking just days after the election as he talked about the challengesPresident elect Obama faced, Rahm Emanuel made his famous quote:
Never allow a crisis to go to waste.
Emanuel explained this quote by saying that extreme circumstances allow you the opportunity to do big things. The Democrat trilogy of Obama, Reid and Pelosi have spent the first 13 months of the Obama administration fulfilling Emanuel’s prophecy.
Health care “reform”, cap and trade, take over of portions of the financial and automotive industry, moving terror trials to New York and appointing Cabinet memebers and Czars who are out right Marxists are all examples of the Obama Administration doing “big things” because they thought they could.
The response to Obama’s action have been definite and specific.
Beginning as early as April of last year, people gathered in various parts of the country under the banner of Tea Parties. Initially, these gatherings were a general protest against ever growing government, the taxes required to support it and the freedom that it extinguished.
As time went on, the tea parties came to be a lead organization for protests against the attempt to take over the health care industry via the proposed health care “reform.” Later, they became a major driver in the near victory of Doug Hoffman in NY. Most recently, the financial support from those aligned with the tea parties allowed Scott Brown to be elected to the seat previously owned by Ted Kennedy and along with it, defeat Obama’s desire to control the health care industry.
It’s clear that much of the American population, including those affiliated with the tea parties, have grown tired of President Obama’s approach. Whether it is ideology, naievete or stupidity, it is clear that Obama’s policies are driving us quickly to the edge of a financial cliff.
This week, President Obama proposed a nearly $4T budget with a deficit of nearly $1.6T. These number are obscene by any definition. What makes the situation move beyond obscene to grotesque is Obama’s chiding that we must become fiscally responsible and that somehow these numbers are a result of President George Bush’s making.
Folks, this budget needs to be defeated. We need to do to it what was done to health care reform. We need to take it apart line by line, word by word and expose it to the American people. Unless Americans are unwilling to make any sacrifices, in which case we’re screwed, they will quickly see an audacity similar to that of health care reform and revolt against it. If we have any hope of reversing the coming fiscal disaster and possibly, the ruin of our country, we need to start now!
We’ve removed the super majority in the Senate and with it much of Obama’s political capital. We have the momentum, the American people and principle on our side. We have elections on the mind of every House member and many endangered Senators.
If ever there was a time to take on a challenge as large as fundamentally changing how budgets are viewed in Washington, now is the time. If we wait until the next budget, people may be lulled to sleep thinking that the newly elected Republicans will solve the problem.
Rahm Emanuel laid out our came plan perfectly: Never allow a crisis to go to waste. In extreme circumstances we have the opportunity to do big things. Doubt me? Ask the people of Massachusetts!
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