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The Nuclear Option: America Faces Most Dangerous Two Years in 150 Years

The Nuclear Option: America Faces Most Dangerous Two Years in 150 Years
by Charles Hurt 5 Nov 2014, 11:52 AM PDT Via Breitbart


(This battle has just begun. ‘We the People’ have spoken, and very loudly at that. The emperor now has no clothes. He’s been stripped of his political party. The Republicans now have a mandate from the People. Stop Obama now or else!-LS)

If President Obama suffered a “shellacking” in the 2010 elections, then what he endured Tuesday night was nothing short of a vicious gangland beatdown the likes of which have rarely been seen before in the history of electoral politics.

This, of course, is a wonderful and well-deserved outcome. But beware: America now enters the two most dangerous years of her existence — or certainly the most dangerous since the Great Depression and possibly going all the way back to the Civil War.

Not to dismiss the promising results of Tuesday’s election.

Voters clearly and forcefully rejected the party, politics and policies of President Obama. They slapped his socialist agenda back into the days of Soviet gulags, where it belongs.

His grand visions of mighty government ruling unchecked over desperate ghettos have been snuffed out.

Gone, too, were the so-called “low-information voters” who have been coaxed to the polls since 2008 on lies and false promises that the federal government would solve all their problems.

They are used up and wrung out.

Even the onslaught of threats and desperate accusations in endless emails to their Obamaphones couldn’t motivate those people to the polls one more time.

Voters rejected the craven, crass and mafioso tactics of Senate Leader Harry Reid.

Voters stripped him of his baldly partisan use of the United States Senate as a graveyard for all House legislation in order to protect his Democrats from tough votes and insulate the President from reality.

The little man with giant fists got staggered by a nasty uppercut from voters even though Reid saw it coming for weeks. Now, the ex-boxer stumbles on the canvas all tangled in the ropes, waiting for the bell.

And voters also rejected the loony-toon delusions of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Honestly, the woman should be running a hat and wig shop in Haight-Ashbury, selling weed and prescription pills on the side. How it is that Democrats in Congress have taken her so seriously for so long will baffle historians for decades.

The silver lining for Democrats today is now they now have the perfect excuse to bounce both of them out of leadership forever.

And this is where things get very, very dangerous for America. President Obama still has two more years left in his final term.

Already, he has demonstrated again and again that he has no regard for the constitution or the legitimacy of laws when they do not suit his agenda. He flaunts his disregard for the constitutional process, dismisses laws he doesn’t like and rewrites others.

He mocks the powers of Congress. The Supreme Court has slapped him down more than any president in recent times. All of this as he tells us he is an expert on constitutional law.

Now come his very explicit threats to pass more illegal and unconstitutional presidential edicts to grant amnesty to illegal aliens already in the United States. This, in turn, will issue invitations for millions more illegals to come streaming across the border.

It will not end at immigration. Unchecked power is addictive.

Disowned by Democrats and made to feel irrelevant in this election, President Obama’s enormous and unjustified ego is deeply wounded. He is frustrated and feels caged, cornered. This is when people like him are most dangerous.

Buoyant Republicans will make an effort to engage him.

But President Obama is not a listener. He is not a negotiator. He is not a learner. He will just take what he wants. It is easier that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s court-packing scheme during the Great Depression was nothing like the strains this president has put on Constitution. Indeed, not since the Civil War has America faced such a dire threat to her existence as a lawful, constitutional republic.

The difference in leadership between then and now could not be more striking.

To bind the union, Abraham Lincoln took an economic and political war and elevated it into something higher. He made it about emancipating slaves and won. And saved the Republic.

This president does the opposite. He got elected promising to elevate politics but instead finds unity and sows discord, often inciting racial divisions.

America’s only hope today is that President Obama finally turns to the bust of Lincoln he keeps in the Oval Office and listens.

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  1. danmillerinpanama's avatar danmillerinpanama Says:

    November 5, 2014 at 11:59 PM

    I listened to Obama’s post-election press conference this afternoon, and there was one question about the nuke negotiations with Iran. It was asked along with questions about of his Islamic State strategy, in response to which he mumbled. Either I missed his answer on the Iran negotiations or he ignored the question. A transcript should soon be available, and I will check.

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  2. danmillerinpanama's avatar danmillerinpanama Says:

    November 6, 2014 at 12:24 AM

    The transcript is available here. Obama did respond, in a mumbling fashion. Here is what he said:

    On Iran. Because of the unprecedented sanctions that we put in place that really did have a crippling effect on Iran’s economy, they have come to the table and they have negotiated seriously around providing assurances that they’re not developing a nuclear weapon for the first time.

    And they have abided by the interim rules. We have been able to freeze their program: in some cases reduce the stockpile of nuclear material that they already had in hand. And the — the discussions, the negotiations, have been constructive. The international community has been unified and cohesive. There haven’t been a lot of cracks in our alliance. Even in countries where we have some differences like Russia, have agreed with us and have worked with us cooperatively in trying to find ways to make sure that we can verify and have confidence going forward that Iran doesn’t have the capacity to develop a nuclear weapon that could not only threaten friends of ours like Israel, trigger a nuclear arms race in the region, but could over the long term potentially threaten us.

    Whether we can actually get a deal done, we’re going to have to find out over the next three to four weeks. We have presented to them a framework that would allow them to meet their peaceful energy needs. And if in fact what their leadership says, that they don’t want to develop a nuclear weapon, if that is in fact true, then they’ve got an avenue here to provide that assurance to the world community and in a progressive, step by step, verifiable way, allow them to get out from under sanctions so that they can reenter as full-fledged members of the international community. But they have their own politics and there’s a long tradition of mistrust between the two countries. And there’s a sizable portion of the political elite that you know, cut its teeth on anti-Americanism and still finds it convenient to blame America for every ill that there is.

    And whether they can manage to say yes to what clearly would be better for Iran, better for the region, and better for the world, is an open question. We’ll find out over the next several weeks.

    Question:

    Sir, on whether or not you have the power unilaterally to relax sanctions, to implement an agreement?

    Answer:

    Yeah, there are a series of different sanctions. There are multilateral sanctions, there are U.N. sanctions. There are sanctions that have been imposed by us, this administration, unilaterally. And I think it’s different for each of those areas.

    But I don’t want to put the cart before the horse. What I want to do is see if in fact, we have a deal. If we do have a deal that I have confidence will prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and that we can convince the world and the public will prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, then, you know, it’ll be time to engage in Congress. And I think that we’ll be able to make a strong argument to Congress that this is the best way for us to avoid a nuclear Iran, that it will be more effective than any other alternatives we might take, including military action.

    But that requires it being a good deal. And I’ve said consistently that I’d rather have no deal than a bad deal. Because what we won’t want to do is lift sanctions and provide Iran legitimacy, but not have the verifiable mechanisms to make sure that they don’t break out and product a nuclear weapon.

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  3. Louisiana Steve's avatar Louisiana Steve Says:

    November 6, 2014 at 12:42 AM

    Dan-

    I honestly don’t think Obama understands what just happened to him politically. Obviously he still believes he can move forward with executive orders regarding amnesty for illegals, treaties, and other programs for which he cannot get congressional support. For what it’s worth, Michael Savage repeatedly made the comment on his show today that he thought Obama had lost touch with reality and may have lost his mind to boot. Not a good thing for a man in such a huge position of power.

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  4. IraB's avatar IraB Says:

    November 6, 2014 at 2:04 AM

    thanks, LS and DMIP for a fascinating dialogue.

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  5. Mark's avatar Mark Says:

    November 6, 2014 at 3:02 AM

    So basically what we see is Hussein lying again and again as he has since he first appeared on the scene at the 2004 DNC.

    I don’t know if it’s fair to say he has “lost touch with reality” because in my book he never had it to begin with.

    He’s a Marxist / Muslim radical who remains just as hellbent as ever on destroying the West. And he’s done a darn good job of it in the past 6 years as well.

    As far as Iran goes, only Netanyahu and the Israelis can stop them now. Let’s hope they get on with it because there surely isn’t much time left!

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  7. Peter Hofman's avatar joopklepzeiker Says:

    November 6, 2014 at 4:42 PM

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/05/9-Bills-Republicans-Should-Pursue-Immediately

    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/11/06/Krauthammer-to-the-GOP-Dont-Take-Obamas-Impeachment-Bait

    Make budget proposals for each case, and trow it on his desk, so it will be clear where he stands for.

    As i agree whit Krauthammer, the presidency in 2016 is most important.

    The next president can undo all the executive laws as far i understand it.

    So let him if it is not to dangerous for the USA , Israel and the rest of the world.

    Please correct me if i,am wrong.

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