Dr. Laurie Roth
Will America Survive This Administration?
March 6, 2009
 

It hasn’t been but two months and President Obama and his administration have managed to put forth Executive Orders and policies that make the movie Nightmare on Elm Street look like Leave It to Beaver. Where do we begin?

Obama has moved to nationalize banks and health care. He and his administration play word games by labeling their actions partnerships etc. but, truth be told, they could call it Pee Wee Herman’s Financial Playhouse and it would still be the enactment of Socialism and neo-Marxism!

Then there is the betrayal of manipulating health care criteria and payments.

We are witnessing the payment criteria to Medicaid and Medicare go from “safe and effective” treatment to “cost effective” treatment. The discerning eye sees this move for what it is, a shift in coverage that puts a target right in the middle of our senior’s heads and one that will make treatment harder and harder to get.

With this massive economic down turn and Americans struggling to find money, we are now forced to pay for abortions and counseling internationally. It isn’t enough to pay for our own.

Speaking of abortions, President Obama has moved to force doctors to provide abortions whether they want to or not. If a doctor feels that this is a grave violation of his Hippocratic Oath and won’t give one, he will be fired or worse. Obama warned us well before he was elected of his position on “reproductive rights” by way of his voting record on abortion, partial birth abortion and infanticide. Those who looked at his record and disavowed his rhetoric understood that one of the first uses of his bully pulpit would be to support the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), trumping all states rights and forcing doctors and hospitals to provide abortions.

Then there is the tarnished shine of a once productive foreign policy.

Recently, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged $900 million to Hamas and PLO under the guise of aid for Gazan restoration. Never mind that Hamas continues to shoot rockets into Israel on a daily basis, literally. Never mind that Hamas’s charter calls for the non-existence of Israel. Never mind that our friend and ally – both in the spirit of freedom and strategically, Israel, is the one that suffers the crosshairs of anti-Semitism and jihadi attacks, globally. We have nothing more to give them but words even as we finance the re-arming of Hamas through the illegitimate front of the UNRWA; financing that comes to them on the backs of increasingly over-burdened American taxpayers. Couldn’t that $900 million serve the people of the United States?

This week, Russia revealed a letter clandestinely sent by President Obama promising to halt deployment of missile defense units in Eastern Europe – a defense shield that would protect the whole of the European Continent, if Russia would use its influence to encourage Iran to abandon their nuclear program. Of course, Russia – seeing full well Mr. Obama’s naiveté – responded that they would be glad to talk with him about abandoning the missile defense shield but that they had no interest in discussing his concerns with the Iranian despots. Bam! Obama gets body slammed.

In all of this what do President Obama’s actions regarding the protection of European nations say about our loyalty and commitment to our allies in Europe? Something akin to “twisting in the wind...” comes to mind.

So far, we have insulted Israel, kissed up to a terrorist group (Hamas), been body slammed by a despot who talks to an imaginary mahdi in a well, and, with the help of a goading mainstream media, insulted our most steadfast ally in Great Britain by diminishing Prime Minister Brown’s American media access to an Oval Office photo-op.

Not bad for only the first two months.

Additionally, Mr. Obama has acted to “repair our image” in the world by ordering Gitmo closed, even though a report and investigation he commissioned demonstrated – again – that there was no torture performed at the facility and total compliance with the Geneva Convention was executed at all times. The truth of the matter is that the detainees at Gitmo get treated better than convicts imprisoned in the United States. So, by all means, let’s close it!

Pay attention troops! True Americans must wake up and create a vision!

People who believe in the Charters of Freedom – Republicans, Conservatives, Libertarians and even some right-leaning centrist Democrats – must act cohesively to recapture our government from the neo-Marxists who have bamboozled their way into power. We can only do so by re-establishing a true vision for our people based on “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness...” Gee, that sounds like the Constitution. Remember that old, crusty document?

True Americans, led by Republicans – when in sane mode – have held a vision for America that included government strong on national security. Mr. Obama vision places more strength in talk and diplomacy, even with the duplicitous. Actually, I agree with Mr. Obama on that point, we should be talking to the two-faced, but from a position of military strength and superiority like Ronald Reagan did. In watching President Reagan talking from a position of strength we witnessed the end of the Iranian hostage crises and that was during his first week in office! We watched him bring down the Berlin wall and defeat Communist Russia. That is the kind of talk that works.

This vision must include again an unwavering respect for “Life” as mandated by the Constitution, not an apologetic “pro-choice” eugenics plank. There is nothing to apologize for in defending worth and life at all ages. That’s why the Founders and Framers set it to paper first among the inalienable rights.

Our renewed vision should include a healthy respect for fair trade and Capitalism, most favored status for countries that take advantage of the status for opportunistic gain. This vision should be business friendly once again; less taxation, less litigation and responsible but constrained regulation. Open the doors to real entrepreneurs so that enterprise and inventiveness can thrive again. That alone would heal the economy...incentives to achieve!

This vision must include defending and bringing back manufacturing jobs and industry from around the world so as to once again employ US workers. We must provide tax breaks and incentives for businesses to seek out the United States as the nation for the corporate headquarters, as well as their manufacturing plants. We need to give business a reason to “come home.”

This re-established American vision must be based in the Constitution, backed by a strong commitment and Godly values. It will take discipline, self-sacrifice and courage; courage to lead individually, when appropriate, and courage to know when to act cohesively as a team.

It will also take intellectually integrity to understand the difference between true balance and compromise and coercive rhetoric applied by those who would marginalize Americanism, much like every call for compromise that has come out of the Pelosi-Reid era of Congress. This continued call for compromise from the Left – a faux-compromise – has nearly cost Republicans their party and our citizenry their country.