What is the real agenda?

Why all of the rush, all of a sudden? Ever since the Democrats came into full power in January, they have been in full hurry-up mode.

I remember the so-called stimulus bill was rushed through before anybody could read it or understand it. Turns out it didn't stimulate much but it did feather a bunch of Democratic nests.

A bullet train from Southern California to Las Vegas for good old Harry Reid, for instance.

It is easy to recognize that some action was called for at the time. A day or two or even a month would not have made any difference. So why the rush?

The energy bill, aka the cap and trade bill, was similarly rushed through the House, with no time to read it, and no amendments permitted ( Ms. Pelosi makes Tom DeLay look like a warm fuzzy kitten).

And now the President is pushing it through the Senate, trying to pass it by August.

This so-called problem ended in 1998 when the globe started cooling again. Why not take a few months and have a good debate on it? Why the big rush?

And now we have the big push to pass socialized health care (disguised as "reform") by August as well. The health care business has been around for a long time, and Medicare and Medicaid have needed reform since they were initiated.

So why are we rushing into all of this? These are major bills that will have lasting, perhaps permanent, effects on our lives and our economy.

And we must pass them without even having a debate or being able to read and understand them before they become law?

Wait a minute. Just wait a minute. Is this the kind of "hope and change" we want? Does this constitute the transparency Obama promised? Or the bi-partisanship?

Maybe its just Rahm Emmanuel not wanting to lose the benefit of a good crisis to ram things through.

Could there be another agenda at work here? Not just health care reform, or solving global warming? Is this an attempt to transform the United States into a socialist state, where everyone has equal results in the pursuit of happiness?

Consider the energy proposals. This would levy high direct and indirect taxes on everyone who uses energy.

Companies that manufacture or produce things would be the heaviest hit. It would make those industries even more uncompetitive than the labor unions have managed to do. That would produce a huge drag on employment. This has very deleterious effects on the entire economy, because we have to produce things to create wealth.

Of course, we would all be hit, depending upon the energy we use. Walk to work and do away with all of your modern appliances, including lights, and you might avoid most of the tax.

The health care industry is also a large part of our economy, and employs a very large number of people. The proposals before the Congress would create a number of taxes on various aspects, and particularly employers within and without the industry. Uninsured individuals who don't want insurance ( about 40% of the total according to a study for the CBO) will be taxed, forcing them to buy or pay the tax. (Free country, right!).

Both of those bills will contribute to severely crippling our economy right in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression.

And anyone with any degree of intelligence should know it.

Now I know that Obama and his team are intelligent and should know this is true ( that does not apply to Lenin's "useful idiots" in the Congress).

So is it their real agenda to bring the US to its knees? Where are they heading us?

They have already nationalized the biggest automaker. Who will be next?

Obama unveiled

We have learned long ago that we could not trust our domestic media on things Obama, not even those that are "fair and balanced."

So we have to turn to the foreign press to hear the truth.

Rex Murphy of Canada's Globe and Mail hits the truth hard with his comments today: Obama on the flying trapeze.

"We've been watching over the past two weeks, willingly or not, the wrong icon. Michael Jackson's a distraction. Barack Obama is the superstar of the world, the real celebrity. And because he's President of the world's foremost power (for now), his actions have real, not just symbolic, meaning."

Real meaning is right, and he goes on:

"We've seen him in action for a bit more than six months. What we can say with confidence, now that we have the evidence of his actions, is that had he run on (a) transforming the U.S. economy by massive federal government intervention, (b) taking an owner's stake in the automobile industry, (c) transforming the rules of America's energy economy, (d) instituting a national health-care system - all of these simultaneously and in the centre of a financial meltdown - Barack Obama wouldn't merely have lost the election, he wouldn't have got as many votes as gnarly old Ross Perot did in an election long past. He wouldn't, in other words, have beaten a bad-tempered, egotistical spoiler."

How true this is. :

"Mr. Obama has taken the real crisis of the U.S. (and world) economy and used it as the screen and lever for a massive agenda of transformation, a transformation that calls for expenditures on a scale never before seen in the history of government on this planet......."

He talks about some of the things initiated by Bush, and then:

"These initiatives, however, were almost instantly overlaid with the Obama agenda of massive government expansion, or attempted expansion, into everything from the auto industry to health care - all of them sold with cries of urgency and executed with reckless haste. Massive bills were passed before there were even copies of them to read. The U.S. government's debt is being swollen beyond all previous records."

This is all true, and he could not have undertaken this without having planned it all along. He planned this, but campaigned on "hope and change" without saying what, and he has reneged on numerous promises made during the campign.

So why don't we hear about this from our own press? Are they completely in the tank for Obama?

Of course. Thank goodness the foreign press is still honest.

Go read the whole thing.

A tip of the hat to Instapundit.