The Political War Obama Never Expected

After all, he was The One, and when you're The One the peons get out of your way and let you do your will:

Man proposes and God disposes. A big part of the trouble for Barack Obama and all those crackerjack leftwing strategists and the brigades of Alinsky thugketeers is that they've never gotten the hang of the second part of that old axiom. For the left, God disposes of nothing, because God is, well, nothing more than an opiate. The rest of us who believe in God know otherwise. History is strewn with fine examples of man's grand designs coming athwart something -- anything -- that makes those designs not worth the paper their drawn on. By chance, does anyone know what happened to the British North American Empire?


So it is today in the United States of America. We have a president and a party (infested with a cabal of heathen leftists) whose grand design is to bloat the state and, hence, their own power. But the left's smart plans have come athwart something, that something being the freedom-loving intransigence of God-fearing conservatives and many other Americans (God-fearing as well). What Barack Obama and the left have gotten is what they never expected: a political war -- perhaps one on an epic scale that will bring down the House of FDR.


Providence is no friend of hubris, and there is much foul hubris in the left's maximum leader, Barack Obama, and perhaps as much in his minions. Whether the Tower of Obama meets the same fate as the Tower of Babel depends on the outcome of the political war underway. Expect the war to be protracted and a close-run thing, for when push comes to shove, Mr. Obama and the left are choosing to govern in semi-caudillo fashion -- that is, contrary to the will of the people. Utopia is being foisted on Americans for their own good.


The cocky President Obama; his chief henchman, the bullying locker-room nudist, Rahm Emanuel; and his Rasputin, a Chicago political machine consigliere named Axelrod, all misinterpreted and overestimated the results of the Democrats' ascendancy in 2006 and 2008. They were buoyed by the analyses of shifts in the electorate penned by liberal pundits. America, the left believed, was ripe for a sharp turn left.

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Obama forgot about one basic principle of American life - freedom. When voters realized their freedom was being challenged, not to mention their income, they rebelled and did so in a big way. The Tea Party movement sprang from almost nowhere, our exalted congressional leaders suddenly found themselves facing an angry populace, and the great plans of The One stumbled and stuttered. Obamacare crossed the finish line only because of a party-line vote and a group of purportedly pro-life Democrats who reminded us there is no such thing as a pro-life Democrat.

The battle is now fully joined and the war could be won or lost in November.