The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama's War on the Republic
by David Limbaugh

ObamaCare is just one of the Obama administration's farreaching illegal policy decisions. Author David Limbaugh highlights the worst of these policies in his newest book, The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama's War on the Republic. Limbaugh's book details the president's "broad based assault on the American Republic" since 2010. That a listing of just two years of these assaults takes up over 500 pages is remarkable; that The Great Destroyer is the sequel to a similar listing, Limbaugh's Crimes Against Liberty, is alarming.

Limbaugh dissects the Obama administration's wars on America, on the Right, on the economy and business, on our culture and values, on our national security, on energy, and on our guns and oil in fine detail. "While our president professes allegiance to our Constitution, our free market economy, our military, and many of our cultural institutions," writes Limbaugh, "in office he has demonstrated an unmistakable disdain for them."

The President has abused his powers in several ways, continues Limbaugh: "through administrative usurpations of legislative power, executive overreaches, and unconstitutional legislation, assisted by the many radical, unaccountable czars he has appointed." Limbaugh explains dozens of specific policies, including:

  • Plans to boost "gun safety" via executive order
  • Unilaterally implemented waivers to the No Child Left Behind Act
  • Taxpayer-funded takeover of student loans
  • A federal "anti-bullying" policy in which Education Department officials have threatened to sue school officials unless they agree to spy on students' lunchtime conversations

These are just a few of the problems Limbaugh has documented. He also examines the President's fundamental disagreements with our nation's Founding Fathers: America's greatness, for Obama, is not found in our freedom, tradition and our protection of private property, rugged individualism, equal opportunity, merit-based achievement,and entrepreneurship. Instead, it depends on a hyperactive, benevolent government to stimulate the economy, initiate and control business activity, and distribute benefits and wealth to strive toward equality of outcome rather than of opportunity.

Limbaugh closes by urging Republicans to stop strategizing as if Obama is still a popular leader. Republicans, he argues, can defeat the President by bringing light to "the bullying, the class warfare, the demonization of opponents, the narcissism, [and] the rigid dogmatism" of his administration and by playing up the stark contrast between Obama's failed liberal policies and Conservatism's proven principles.

(Regnery Publishing Inc., 2012, 503pp., $29.95)