Obamamania Infects Republicans

I couldn’t believe all the Republicans who at last night’s presidential address fell all over themselves to pat Barack Obama on the back as in the case of Senator Hatch, shake his hand or even in Senator Coburn’s case to give him a big hug (I had no idea that Coburn and Obama were such good friends). It was truly embarrassing.

I did not see one principled conservative Republican sitting on his hands or at least standing up and not applauding though I can pretty much guarantee I know at least one who didn’t. They all gave him a standing ovation as soon as he entered the room. Even Senator Shelby was anxious to talk to Obama and probably apologize for his recent remark that he didn’t know if Obama was born in the US or not and wasn’t sure if Obama was even eligible to serve as our President. Don’t they realize that his Marxist policies on social issues, the economy and national security not only threaten to collapse our economy but may well ultimately result in the destruction of our country as Alan Keyes recently warned? If they do, how can they cheer on the man who history will note is primarily responsible for that?

They ought to show it by their actions and not fall over themselves to applaud Obama merely because he has a 63% approval rating in an attempt to show their bi-partisanship to their constituents. What will it take to get them to take courage? They should have followed Justice Alito’s lead which was to stand politely and not applaud and to shake Obama’s hand with a kind of tortured smile but then look immediately away showing himself uninterested in aggrandizing himself to Obama. That’s the kind of conservative leader who leads by example that I am looking for. If only we had more Samuel Alito’s in Congress.

I would not have applauded Obama when he entered the room had I been in that hallowed chamber. I would, however, have applauded the parts of his speech that I agreed with what few there were. Obama is far and away the most radical President ever elected in our history. He makes the Clinton’s look positively conservative in comparison. I will repeat what I said before, we need to hope and pray not for Obama’s success but as Rush Limbaugh stated for his failure for if he succeeds in implementing all of his socialist policies and decimates our military might, America may not survive very far into the next decade, but if he fails there is still hope for America’s future and the restoration of our God-given constitutional republic.

Obama is predicting that we will have a $1.5 trillion deficit up from the $1.2 trillion deficit that Bush left him, but I have been predicting it is going to be at least $1.65 trillion and probably closer to $2 trillion given his unprecedented spending spree robbing from our children and grandchildren to bail people out of their irresponsible decisions now. Just as I predicted Obama is trying to pass all his most radical socialist legislation including the carbon tax, socialized health care, a new more draconian national gun ban than we have ever before seen, gays in the military, etc. this year and next knowing as one Fox News analyst stated that he will never be more popular and have more support than right now. It is going to be all downhill from here. When the American people find out the true size of the deficit later this year, Obama’s poll numbers are doing to take a drubbing. I am predicting he tanks 25 points in the polls by Election Day 2010 due in large part to the near depression we will be in at that point due in large part to his socialist policies, thus according the Republicans a one-time chance to retake the House of Reps and begin to restore our system of checks and balances which is so badly needed at this time of one party rule in our nation’s Capitol.

Obama has promised to half the deficit to $530 by 2013 when he may or may not still be in office. That way when he runs for re-election he won’t have to worry about keeping that promise. Considering that the deficit would only be $500 billion without Bush’s $700 billion bailout package and Obama’s $1.2 trillion (with interest) socialist spending bill, doing nothing would probably allow him to reduce the deficit to well below that level, but with all of his additional socialist initiatives, it should prove quite a challenge.

One good thing I heard from RNC Chairman Michael Steele when asked whether the party would seek to oust the Gang of Three Republican Senate defectors without whom Obama’s$1.2 trillion depression stimulus bill could not be passed, he said “all options are on the table.” I believe we should strip them of all of their seniority in response. Well at least Steele appears to be a fiscal conservative if not a social conservative.

At a time when America has never been more indebted, we learned from John McCain yesterday that King Barack is spending $11.2 billion on his own private helicopter fleet each one costing $400 million and equipped with an onboard kitchen to ensure he and his buddies eat in style on the way to Air Force One. What a hypocrite…