The 2012 election has often been described as the  most pivotal since 1860.  This statement is not hyperbole.  If Barack  Obama is re-elected the United States will never be the same, nor will it be  able to re-capture its once lofty status as the most dominant nation in the  history of mankind.
                The  overwhelming majority of Americans do not understand that Obama's first term was  dedicated to putting in place executive power to enable him and the  administration to fulfill the campaign promise of "transforming America" in his  second term regardless of which political party controls Congress.    
                That is why his re-election team is virtually ignoring the plight of incumbent  or prospective Democratic Party office holders.
                The  most significant accomplishment of Obama's first term is to make Congress  irrelevant.  Under the myopic and blindly loyal leadership of Harry Reid  and Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats have succeeded in creating an imperial and, in a  second term, a potential dictatorial presidency.
                During  the first two years of the Obama administration when the Democrats overwhelming  controlled both Houses of Congress and the media was in an Obama worshipping  stupor, a myriad of laws were passed and actions taken which transferred  virtually unlimited power to the executive branch.
                The  birth of multi-thousand page laws was not an aberration.  This tactic was  adopted so the bureaucracy controlled by Obama appointees would have sole  discretion in interpreting vaguely written laws and enforcing thousands of pages  of regulations they and not Congress would subsequently  write. 
                
                For  example, in the 2,700 pages of ObamaCare there are more than 2,500 references to  the Secretary of Health and Human Services.  There are more than 700 instances when he or she is instructed that they "shall" do  something and more than 200 times when they "may" take at their sole discretion  some form of regulatory action. On 139 occasions, the law mentions that  the "Secretary determines."  
                In essence one person, appointed by and reporting to the president, will be in charge of the health care of 310 million  Americans once ObamaCare is fully operational in 2014.
                The  same is true in the 2,319 pages of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act which  confers nearly unlimited power on various agencies to control by fiat the  nation's financial, banking and investment sectors.  The bill also creates new  agencies, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, not subject to any  oversight by Congress.   This overall process was repeated numerous  times with other legislation all with the intent of granting unfettered power to  the executive branch controlled Barack Obama and his radical  associates.
                Additionally,  the Obama administration has, through its unilaterally determined rule making  and regulatory powers, created laws out of whole cloth.  The Environmental  Protection Agency on a near daily basis issues new regulations clearly out of  their purview in order to modify and change environmental laws previously passed  and to impose a radical green agenda never approved by Congress.  The same  is true of the Energy and Interior Departments among many  others. 
                None  of these extra-constitutional actions have been challenged by Congress.    The left in America knows this usurpation of power is nearly  impossible to reverse unless stopped in its early stages.
                It  is clearly the mind set of this administration and its appointees that Congress  is merely a nuisance and can be ignored after they were able to take full  advantage of the useful idiots in the Democrat controlled House and Senate in  2009-2010 and the Democrat Senate in the current Congress. 
                Additionally,  Barack Obama knows after his re-election a Republican controlled House and  Senate will not be able to enact any legislation to roll back the power  previously granted to the Executive Branch or usurped by them.  His veto  will not be overridden as there will always be at least 145 Democratic members  of the House or 34 in the Senate in agreement with or intimidated by an  administration more than willing to use Chicago style political  tactics.
                The  stalemate between the Executive and Legislative Branches will inure to the  benefit of Barack Obama and his fellow leftists.
                The  most significant power Congress has is the control of the purse-strings as all  spending must be approved by them.  However, once re-elected, Barack Obama,  as confirmed by his willingness to do or say anything and his unscrupulous  re-election tactics, would not only threaten government shutdowns but would  deliberately withhold payments to those dependent on government support as a  means of intimidating and forcing a Republican controlled Congress to surrender  to his demands, thus neutering their ability to control the administration  through spending constraints. 
                Further,  this administration has shown contempt for the courts by ignoring various court  orders, e.g.  the Gulf of Mexico oil drilling moratorium, as well as  stonewalling subpoenas and requests issued by Congress.  The Eric Holder  Justice Department has become the epitome of corruption as part of the most  dishonest and deceitful administration in American history.   In a  second term the arrogance of Barack Obama and his minions will become more  blatant as he will not have to be concerned with  re-election. 
                Who  will be there to enforce the rule of law, a Supreme Court ruling or the  Constitution?  No one.  Barack Obama and his fellow-travelers will be  unchallenged as they run roughshod over the American people.
                Many  Republicans and conservatives dissatisfied with the prospect of Mitt Romney as  the nominee for president are instead focused on re-taking the House and  Senate.   That goal, while worthy and necessary, is meaningless unless  Barack Obama is defeated.  The nation is not dealing with a person of  character and integrity but someone of single-minded purpose and overwhelming  narcissism.   Judging by his actions, words and deeds during his first  term, he does not intend to work with Congress either Republican or Democrat in  his second term but rather to force his radical agenda on the American people  through the power he has usurped or been granted.
                The  governmental structure of the United States was set up by the founders in the  hope that over the years only those people of high moral character and integrity  would assume the reins of power.   However, knowing that was not  always possible, they dispersed power over three distinct and independent  branches as a check on each other.
                What  they could not imagine is the surrender and abdication of its constitutional  duty by the preeminent governmental branch, the Congress, to a chief executive  devoid of any character or integrity coupled with a judiciary essentially  powerless to enforce the law when the chief executive ignores  them
                Conservatives,  Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt Romney must come to grips with this  moment in time and their historical role in denying Barack Obama and his minions  their ultimate goal.   All resources must be directed at that end-game  and not merely controlling Congress and the various committee  chairmanships.
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