Pushing an Agenda

How do you gain and maintain power when your agenda conflicts with the majority of the population and you cannot win the debate on its merits? You lie, cheat, intimidate, and bribe.

Lies: Benghazi cover-up. Obamacare is not a tax, your premiums will go down, and it will lower the deficit. Global warming. Claim your opponents are racists, bigots, and homophobic. Fast and Furious. Consequences of sequester cuts. 

Cheating: IRS scandal. Voter intimidation. Illegal voter registrations. Recess appointments. Chrysler bondholders during the GM bailout. 

Intimidation: Gibson Guitar raid. NLRB and Boeing. Occupy Wall Street. Union thuggery. EPA regulations. Fox News reporter James Rosen. Releasing the names of Romney donors on Obama reelection website (some were also audited by the IRS).

Bribery: Record numbers of people on disability and food stamps. Millions receive perpetual welfare payments, housing subsidies, and cell phones. Corporate welfare and bailouts. Crony capitalism.

The Sky is Falling

Unbeknownst to the Obama sycophant authors of this NBCNews.com, sky-is-falling sequester piece (listed below), they lay out the most persuasive argument against federal meddling in the states' business that I have seen recently. 

Consider this: 

• Why does the federal government fund Head Start? Can't the states, religious, civic and local community organizations handle it? 
• Why does the federal government fund schools? Can't each community take responsibility for educating their own children?
• Why cut the FAA and the military when you can cut the Labor Department, the Commerce Department, the USDA, the NLRB, the TSA, Homeland Security, Amtrak or a dozen other unconstitutional federal bureaucracies???
• Why does the federal government fund community hospitals, institutions of higher learning and Meals on Wheels? Are the states and local communities unwilling and unable to do such?

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/02/17162039-from-coast-to-coast-states-brace-for-sequester-shock?lite