As the Ryan budget passes the House today, without one Democrat vote to note, it may be wise to keep in mind Keith Hennessey’s conclusions on how ‘that speech’ fits the bill for Obama’s budget strategy leading up to the 2012 election:
1. a small deficit accomplishment to rebuild credibility with independents;
2. a vigorous and political tax fight; and
3. the political benefits of scaring senior citizens
Hennessey elaborates: “The President made his budget strategy clear…Try for a small short-term bipartisan deficit reduction deal this year…Get a signing ceremony…Blast away at Republicans on the big spending issues…Pick a fight over the top tax rates.” Concluding with the following:
The President’s new strategy guarantees two more years of fiscal stalemate and poisons the well on the most important economic policy question facing American policymakers: how to permanently solve the long-term fiscal problem caused by the unsustainable growth of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Yesterday on The Mark Levin Show, he discussed how this strategy falls right in line with one of Barack Obama’s favorite philosophers, Saul Alinsky and his book, Rules for Radicals. This communist doctrine is the new Left’s bible. Mark reads a quote from the 'little red and white book', as he fondly calls it, which precisely describes Obama’s speech:
“Men don’t like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience. They need a bridge to cross from their own experience to a new way. A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives. Agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive affirmative non-challenging climate.”
“A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don’t know what will work, but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating and hopeless. They won’t act for change, but won’t strongly oppose those who do. The time is then right for revolution”
LEVIN: “That’s exactly what’s going on in this country right now: a counter-revolution to the American Revolution.”
“Remember, once you organize people around something as commonly agreed upon as ‘pollution’, then an organized people is on the move. From there it is a short and natural step to ‘political’ pollution, to ‘Pentagon’ pollution, and I might add, ‘capitalist’ pollution.”
LEVIN: “Obama always talks about the middle class…always claims to be the representative of the middle class, always claims to be protecting the middle class from the rich. Well, if you consider yourself in the middle class, you better pay attention. More Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals…”
“Activist and radicals on and off our college campuses, people who are committed to change, must make a complete turnabout. With rare exceptions, our activist and radicals are products of and rebels against our middle class society. All rebels must attack the power-states in their society. Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, warmongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right about the middle class, but we must begin from where we are, if we are to build power for change. The power and the people are in the big middle class majority.”
He later explains that the radicals need to at least pretend they are of the middle class, that they are protecting the middle class, that they stand with the middle class, and then destroy it.
LEVIN: “Obama’s speech yesterday, this is what it was all about: pretending to stand with the middle class, pretending to feel your pain, pretending to know your problem, pretending to stand with the social security recipient, the Medicare patient, the Medicaid patient, pretending to stand with the students, and parents, with their loan problems and colleges, pretending to stand with the parents of Down Syndrome and autistic children, pretending to stand with all of you. And yet he stands with none of you. He wants your votes, he wants your support, to destroy your lifestyle, to destroy your way of life.”
It’s all right there in the little red and white book. Obama is not a Carter, nor a Clinton; he’s an Alinskyite, a Marxist. The sooner more understand this, particularly the Republican leadership, the sooner more might realize that “…you only live once, you only have one opportunity to either be courageous or be a coward, to stand for your family or not, to stand for your country or not.”
Our nation, our civil society, cannot afford to let this destructive strategy go without challenge.
ADDENDUM: The arrogant Marxist was caught scoffing and lying to campaign donors Thursday evening on an open microphone after reporters had left. And in another instance we can contrast Obama's take on 'Mediscaring' seniors on two separate occasions. There is no limit to this man's deception.
