BIG BROTHER GOVERNMENT STARTS TO TAKE OVER

Fortunately, the Lame Duck Congress is history.
But even though this particular session of Congress is over, Big Brother Government is just getting warmed up.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) showed last week how the Obama Administration will advance their agenda in 2011.

First on Tuesday, the HHS unveiled new price controls for the health insurance industry. Using new powers granted by Obamacare, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that starting next year, health insurance companies must receive permission from the Obama Administration before they can raise rates by more than 10 percent. The experts at HHS believe these price controls will help decrease rising health care costs. This may sound good on the surface, but price controls always have undesired unintended consequences. Price controls attack the symptoms of runaway costs, not the cause. Price controls will cause shortages, not better health care. This is only one of thousands of new powers Obamacare granted the HHS. Left unchecked, there are many new health care regulations to come.

Later on Tuesday, the FCC released its “net neutrality” rules, which will allow the federal government to begin regulating the Internet. This despite opposition from Congress and a contrary federal court ruling. Net neutrality has nothing to do with the internet being neutral…it simply gives Big Brother Government power and control over the internet, thus further restricting the freedom of the people.

Then on Thursday the EPA announced that it will begin regulating power plants and oil refineries in an attempt to stop global warming. The new regulations will seek to cut greenhouse gas emissions by making it more expensive to turn fossil fuels into energy. But the Obama Administration did not stop there.

Later in the day, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the Bureau of Land Management was issuing new rules that would make it harder to develop natural resources on government-owned land. Both of these measures will not only drive up the cost of electricity but will also make us more dependent on foreign sources of energy.

The Obama Administration fully intends to drive forward with their leftist agenda, even though the people have spoken loud and clear and elected conservatives to control the House of representatives. Obama has effectively “thumbed his nose” at the will of the people, and continues to govern against the will of the people.

But We The People are not powerless, and there will be a major battle in 2011: the Obama Administration and their unelected liberal Progressive “central planners versus the newly elected House of Representatives and state and local governments.

Congress still has the power of the purse and can withhold funding for implementing Obamacare or writing global warming regulations.

There is also the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to review and overrule regulations issued by government agencies.

State and local governments can also thwart the federal administrative state [13] by asserting their rights whenever possible.

We can return power from Washington back to the people, by writing or calling our Representatives and Senators.

WHY I DON'T LIKE OBAMA

Obama has been proven to be a liar.

From the moment he stepped onto the national stage to campaign for the presidency, Obama has consistently lied to the American people in order to convince us to trust him with our economic and national security. Since becoming our president, he has betrayed that trust.

During his first eight months in office, Obama has exhibited his admiration for dictators and disdain for our allies.

• He offended the Queen of England and bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.
• He praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega, kissed Socialist Hugo Chavez on the cheek and endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia.
• He sided with Hugo Chavez and Communist Fidel Castro against Honduras, a country that followed its constitution and stopped its president from illegally turning himself into that country’s dictator.
• Obama announced that he would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions, while they're building their nuclear weapons.
  

Obama displayed a blatant lack of concern for what is in the best interest of America when he circled the globe and publicly apologized for America's world leadership. He told the Mexican president that Americans are responsible for the violence in Mexico.

He announced a cut in funding for our new missile defense system the day after an ICBM was launched by North Korea.

He released information on U.S. intelligence gathering despite contrary urgings of his own CIA director and the four prior CIA directors.

He ordered that the word "terrorism" be stricken from our discourse and replaced with the innocuous words "man made disasters."

He appointed a Homeland Security Chief who identified military veterans and abortion opponents as "dangers to the nation."

In a scary bid to increase the political power of the Democratic Party, Obama politicized the census by moving it out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House.

His dogged determination to turn our country into a failed socialist nation was in full evidence when Obama nationalized General Motors and Chrysler. He gave to the unions control over the two giant automobile manufacturers, while freezing out retired investors and allocating billions of taxpayer dollars to this socialist power grab. As a further slap in our economic face, he expanded the corporate bailouts, including giving billions to AIG without pre-conditions. Then, to add insult to injury, Obama doubled our national debt with his out-of-control spending.

Obama is spending so brazenly because he is counting on Americans being lulled into complacency by the time of the 2010 elections. By design, the bulk of the "stimulus" funds will be spent, just in time, to spur a false recovery. The "recovery" will be hailed as proof of Obama's wisdom by the liberal media. It will not matter that the so-called recovery will not be real, or that it won't last – as long as Obama and liberal Democrats stay in control of our government.

Demonstrating his willingness to operate without regard for our laws, Obama fired two inspector generals (IG’s) who were investigating illegal activities by Obama cronies. Obama fired the IG’s even though, by law, inspector generals are authorized to conduct investigations without interference from government officials.

Blatantly, Obama refused to prosecute Black Panthers caught on video intimidating voters at a polling place in Philadelphia during the 2008 election.

Further, Obama filled his cabinet with five people who have cheated on their taxes, and two of his other nominees withdrew after they were exposed as tax cheats.

Obama and his supporters scoffed at parents and called them racist for not wanting their children indoctrinated by Obama with his K-12 speech. Obama’s talking about the value of education was not the problem. What rankled citizens was the lesson plan from the Department of Education – before it was changed under pressure from the public – that required children to write papers about how to help Obama achieve his radical agenda.

Obama has publicly asserted that...

• some corporations, including 'Big Oil' and medical insurance companies, make 'obscene profits' (they don't compared with many other industries) and that his 'compensation czar' will look into executive compensation...
• medical insurance companies need a 'public option' to keep them 'honest,' ...
• He wants a government-guaranteed 'level playing field' of wealth redistribution via taxing those deemed to have too much.

The lack of any check on Obama’s power, due to a veto-proof Democrat-controlled Congress and a lap dog liberal media, has caused Obama to boldly assert his radical agenda and surround himself with a stable of over 30 advisors called "Czars". These unaccountable Obama-appointees are beholden only to Obama. They are not unanswerable to Congress or the American people, as was intended by our Constitution which requires congressional confirmation hearings and oversight of political appointees. Among those Czars are Communists, Marxists and other characters with troubling backgrounds and questionable credentials who should not be allowed anywhere near the White House. Gone is media outrage over abuse of power or an imperial presidency, as well as any angst about the shredding of our Constitution.

The preceding comments were excerpted from an article entitled:

OBAMA – A CHARMING LIAR?
By Frances Rice,
a retired lawyer and Army Lieutenant Colonel,
who is chairman of the National Black Republican Association.
http://www.nbra.info/

Read the entire article here:

http://blackrepublican.blogspot.com/