Posted by
Steve on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:05:15 AM
What stupid thing will Barack Obama do as his first thing? I have read articles that said he will close Gitmo as his first act. I have read articles that said he will sign the bill making abortion the policy of the US government. Nobody knows for sure what he will do because he has not said what that first thing will be.
Closing Gitmo will be a problem for Obama. There are a lot of bad people housed there. Closing Gitmo would have the effect of bringing them to the US for trial and that would be a very bad thing for the US. They could be transferred to some other location outside of the US, but that is just moving the problem. He said he would close Gitmo and bring those people here for trial. Moving the detainees to another location would not work for him to keep his campaign promise. His best option is to keep Gitmo open and say that he is working on closing it. That way he can put off the crazies in his party while still doing the right thing for security.
Signing a bill making abortion the rule would send shockwaves around the world. The US has always stood for life. We have made it a point to stand for life in country after country where it would have been easier to just let those children die. Making abortion the policy of the government would change those guidelines. We could no longer be counted on to come to the rescue of countries when they have problems and are considering abortion as a solution.
It would also create massive problems in the US as well. The government has basically a policy of hands off when it comes to abortion right now. That means that abortion is legal. But, states can create laws that make it difficult or impossible for abortion clinics to function. Making abortion the policy would create problems for those states that have made it difficult or impossible for the abortionists to work. The pro-life movement, which already does not like Obama, would really be ticked off at him and be energized to put forward candidates in 2010 that could thwart the Democrat agenda.
Or, Obama could do something completely different. He has a lot of things that he could do. He has a lot of things that would be good, most of which he would never choose. He has a lot of things that would be harmful to the US, most of which he would most likely choose from.
Why do I say that he has a list of things that would be harmful that he could choose from? Obama wants to raise taxes on the “rich”. That means anyone who has a job. If he raises taxes on the “rich”, that would be bad for the economy. If it is bad for the economy, it is bad for the US. He has a list of things like that to choose from. Those things would be harmful to national security, the economy or other parts of the US. Now, I have to admit that it is my opinion that those actions would be harmful. A liberal would not think that raising taxes on the “rich” would be bad. The resulting economic disaster would show that it was bad, but a liberal would disagree with my opinion. The same goes for most of the other “bad” options that Obama has when he takes over next week.
Whatever Obama picks as his first act as President, I am sure that we conservatives will not care for it one bit. Whatever it is, we will predict that something bad will happen and it will. Liberals will love Obama for the decision and praise him for doing the right thing. When the bad result happens, they will blame the “evil” Republicans and make another bad decision to “fix” the first bad decision. That is how we got to where we are right now. Liberals making bad decisions to fix bad decisions to fix bad decisions caused the economy to tank. We are expected to think that the economy will be fixed when liberals will make more bad decisions to fix the bad decisions that got us into the mess in the first place. Only a liberal would think that another bad decision would fix the string of bad decisions that got us into this mess in the first place.