Posted by
Steve on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 12:09:59 PM
The Obama administration’s decision to override the 1st amendment to the Constitution is baffling, if you look at it as if they want to be re-elected. The first reaction is, of course Obama wants to be re-elected. But, look at his actions, not what you think he wants. Catholics make up between 27 and 28% of the voting population. Hispanics are about half of all Catholics. Getting Catholics mad at you will almost guarantee that your opponent will win the election. You cannot give away 27% of the vote and expect to win. Even if only half of the Catholics are faithful enough to follow the church, that still leaves about 14%. Most recent elections are decided by less than 8% of the vote.
Also, the Catholics have received a lot of support from groups that are impacted less by these new rules. From an interview I heard yesterday, these groups are Jews, Protestants and Mormons. That amounts to another large chunk of the electorate. If Obama lets this go, then he has written off at least 50% of the vote and guaranteed a loss.
Since getting the Catholics upset is not good election strategy, what good is it for the administration? Remember there are a lot of radicals in the Obama administration. Obama has said that he wants to “fundamentally transform America”. What better way to transform America than to create a crisis. The Catholics are threatening to possibly march in the streets. That is their right. But doing that might just play into the hands of the administration. Leftist thugs could start riots when the Catholics march. The riots would be blamed on the Catholics. Of course, to restore order, Obama would have to call in the National Guard or the Army. Bringing in the National Guard or the Army would require that martial law be enforced. Since we would be under martial law, he would have to cancel the election as not being in the best interest of the country.
Now, the preceding is definitely out there and possibly just a conspiracy theory. But, it puts together a number of things that Obama has said with rumors I have heard. Also, Obama seems remarkably secure in the knowledge that he will still be President after November. He has to know something that the rest of us do not know. Since he just guaranteed his defeat by trying to strong arm the Catholics, there has to be some other plan in motion that we do not know about. This is just trying to put two and two together. I may have come up with five, but it does make some sense.
The big drawback to the plan is whether the National Guard or the Army would follow Obama in overriding the Constitution. My guess is that it would have to be a hand-picked group of individuals in order to pull it off. Most rank and file military people will uphold the Constitution and these actions are in opposition to the Constitution. My feeling is that most military people would not go along with this plan. They might be sold on stopping the rioting, but that would be about it. Once the riots were stopped, the other steps would not have military support if my reading of the military is accurate. But, in any group, you can find those who will support just about anything. A hand-picked group of military personnel might pull off the riot control. But the next steps would be really questionable.
Obama might try and pull a rabbit out of his hat and claim he knew nothing about the new regulation. That might have worked on day one, but now it will not fly. The backlash has been so vocal and sustained he has to know of at least the Catholic portion of the backlash. Obama owns this regulation and no matter what he does, the regulation sticks to him for all time.