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Two-thirds of the American people say they believe the United States is going in the wrong direction, and changing the occupant of the White House is the only way to reverse course. Unemployment remains the prime political issue, but a tsunami of legal and illegal immigrants are still allowed to take jobs away from U.S. citizens. Barack Obama's extravagant spending is putting an albatross around the necks of our children and grandchildren. Our future of constitutional government will be endangered if Obama has the opportunity to name the next two Supreme Court justices. He says prime qualifications for his judicial nominees will be (not devotion to the Constitution as written but) support for abortion rights and "empathy". Obama showed his contempt for our constitutional legislative process by issuing an executive order to implement the DREAM Act, which Congress had refused to pass. It looks like he wants to make Congress irrelevant by using the Executive Branch to create and promulgate legislation. He bypassed Congress in deleting the work requirement in the welfare reform act passed by Congress in 1996, thus adding thousands more to dependency on government handouts, one of his major tactics to break the private enterprise system. Obama again showed his contempt for our legislative process by his effort to get rid of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), despite his constitutional obligation to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed". Despite the consistent opposition of the American people, Obama continues to push for implementation of ObamaCare, and continues to demand that schools, colleges and hospitals built and maintained by Christian denominations pay for procedures and drugs they believe are immoral, or else pay exorbitant fines that spell speedy bankruptcy. Obama is pushing hard for a federal takeover of what public schools are teaching our kids by promoting a dumbed down curriculum called Common Core. He is baiting the states to sign up by giving waivers to 26 states that excuse them from the requirements of the No Child Left Behind law. His lawyers carried a case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to force a Lutheran school to rehire a teacher the school had fired. Fortunately, the Supreme Court slapped down the administration attorneys with a rare 9-0 decision. Obama is carrying on a tremendous war against religious liberty. He is trying to redefine the "free exercise" clause of the First Amendment (the way Americans have understood it for more than two centuries) to mean "freedom of worship" only inside a church but excluding any reference to religion in any public place or school. Obama continues to reduce U.S. production of energy by prohibiting expanded drilling for oil on our own lands and regulating coal mines out of existence. To add insult to injury, he gave a big hunk of U.S. taxpayers' money to Brazil to finance that country's drilling for oil. Obama continues to try to cut holes in our sovereignty by pushing ratification of many United Nations treaties. This includes the ridiculous UN treaty on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the dangerous Law of the Sea treaty, and the UN treaty on ownership of guns that threatens our Second Amendment. |
