Not quite locked up:
Virtually everyone who knows (Obama) recognizes that he plays his cards close to the vest, so that you can make your case to him without knowing whether it has registered. At this point, my fear is that the change in office will not lead to a change in his liberal voting record, as reinforced by a hyperactive Democratic platform. My great fear is that a landslide victory will give him solid majorities in both Houses of Congress, so that no stalling tactics by Republicans can slow down his legislative victory procession. At that point his innate pragmatism will line up with his strong left-of-center beliefs on issues that have thus far been muted during the campaign.
Put otherwise, Obama’s vague calls for change that “you can believe in” are, to my thinking, wholly retrograde in their implications. At heart, he is an unreconstructed New Dealer who can see, and articulate, both sides on every question–but only as a prelude to championing the old corporatist agenda with a vengeance.
Read the whole thing to see what the University of Chicago’s Richard Epstein thinks the consequences of such an agenda might be.
Update: Hey, but at least he has the vote of Robert A. Hall, from Des Plains, Illinois!
Robert Hall’s sarcasm is priceless. Send it to every Democrat you know!
I just talked about this with The Oracle last night. If Obama is elected he’ll have a majority in Congress. There will be no end to the mess he can and will make of this country.
I’m starting to shiver uncontrollably. 2 weeks more just isn’t enough time anymore. Then again, the 2 years we’ve been enduring this campaign cycle have seemed too long.
2 very long weeks to go.
He gets in, and along with Biden, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of them, he’ll finish off the private ownership of firearms.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on CBS “60 Minutes”: “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them — Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in — I would have done it.”
Don’t think it can’t happen.
I’ve been doing some research on the topic of the 2nd Amendment, BTW. The opponents were right and the Supreme Court was wrong – the prefatory phrase of the Amendment was very meaningful. Where they’re wrong about is what it meant.
Opponents of the Constitution had a big problem with giving the Federal government the power to raise and keep a standing army. This was based on what King George had done with his standing army before and during the Revolutionary War. The supporters pointed to the fact that the States still had the right to keep militias, and in fact that the Federal government was obliged to fund and equip them while the States controlled their officers. The militias could keep the States protected from the Federal forces. “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary for the security of a free State …”
So now the States are secure from the Feds. But to be effective in this role, that militia will have to be made up not just of the standard call-up of the local farmers; it will have to consist in part of a group of people who spend a lot of time drilling and training; a “well-regulated” Militia. This essentially is the State’s standing army. So how will the public be protected for any abuse of their use by the State authorities?
Simple. The public will protect themselves. “… the right of the people to keep and bear arms, will not be infringed.” The militia will not be able to oppress the public if the public itself is armed.
Read Federalist Paper 29. It spells it all out. Of course, Senators like Sen. Feinstein either a) don’t want people to be able to resist government abuse, or b) don’t think it’s ever going to happen.