10 disasters America will face if Obama gets a second term

10 disasters America will face if Obama gets a second term

Marc Thiessen
The American
March 5, 2012

In today’s Washington Post, I argue that while electing a transformational conservative president may not be in the cards this November, stopping a transformational liberal president still is. The damage of a second Obama term could be potentially irrevocable. I asked a number of conservative thinkers what they feared most from a second term, and compiled this list of the top ten disasters that would befall America if Obama were re-elected this fall:

1. Obamacare will not be repealed.

2. The unprecedented levels of spending in Obama’s first four years will become the new floor, as America sets new records for fiscal profligacy and debt.

3. Job creators will face massive tax increases, and more Americans will come off the tax rolls—resulting in fewer citizens with a stake in keeping taxes low and more with a stake in protecting benefits.

4. Government dependency, already at record levels, will continue to grow.

5. Four lost years in dealing with the entitlement crisis will become eight—digging us into a hole from which we may not be able to emerge.

6. Obama, unworried about the impact of gas and electricity prices on his reelection, will finally wage the regulatory war on fossil fuels the Left demands.

7. He will unleash the Environmental Protection Agency to impose crushing new burdens on U.S. business.

8. His administration’s assault on religious freedom will go on and expand to new areas.

9. The Defense Department will be gutted, with cuts so deep that America will no longer be a superpower.

10. Obama could have the opportunity to appoint more liberal Supreme Court justices, ending the Roberts court in all but name for a generation.

This is, of course, not a complete list—not by a long shot. I’d be interested what readers and my fellow AEI scholars think: What’s missing from this litany of impending disasters?

10. Obama could have the opportunity to appoint more liberal Supreme Court justices, ending the Roberts court in all but name for a generation.

Very dangerous in the long term. Many of the issues above can be fixed in the short term (a couple Repub administrations), but more liberal SCOTUS appointees guarantees a slew of bullshit coming our way for decades to come. Bank on it.

10 is a very scary thought yeah.. But you could add Iran getting a nuke and the rights of religious would be taken away, not muslims of course.

Give liberal SCOTUS judges a majority and you'll stop thinking about religious rights altogether. Just pay attention to what the ACLU does. That's a very good indicator. It goes far beyond religion.

The ACLU is a joke. Nothing but a leftwing front group.

Mark85la wrote:The ACLU is a joke. Nothing but a leftwing front group.

The ACLU was founded by a committed, card-carrying communist, so yeah, it is a FAR left front to forward a decidedly far-left agenda.

But they are no joke, they have been very effective at moving that agenda forward, and they now have one of their own on the Supreme Court... Ginsberg.