…, I have no intention of bashing our new president or even criticizing him until we see the end result of his works as POTUS.

However, I will do what one might call “semi-predict” the intended fruits of the incumbent administration.

First, as I mentioned in my last post, Mr. Obama has frozen all proposed Bush agendas pending “review” of each, rendering any prospective final legacies of the previous administration moot, including, unfortunately, bills effecting the Second Amendment rights of Americans.

Now, there’s this little nugget.

Vice President Joe Biden says the goal of a new White House task force is to raise middle-class living standards.

The goals of the task force are plums for the labor unions that supported Obama’s presidential bid. Those goals include:

– Expanding education and lifelong training opportunities
– Improving work and family balance
– Restoring labor standards, including workplace safety
– Helping to protect middle-class and working-family incomes
– Protecting retirement security

Yeah, I can see where the teachers’ unions and some of their fellow travellers might like the ring of those bells.

At the same press conference where he announced the Middle Class Task Force, President Barack Obama signed three several executive orders intended to “level the playing field” for labor unions in struggles with management.

“I do not view the labor movement as part of the problem. To me, it’s part of the solution,” Obama said, prompting applause. “You cannot have a strong middle class without a strong labor movement.”

Hmmmm….

The three executives orders Obama signed on Friday will:

– Require federal contractors to offer jobs to current workers when contracts change.

– Reverse a Bush order requiring federal contractors to post notices telling workers they can limit their financial support of unions serving as their exclusive bargaining representatives.

– Prevent federal contractors from being reimbursed for expenses intended to influence workers deciding whether to form a union and engage in collective bargaining.

The White House Web site does not define the term “middle class,” other than to call it “the backbone of the country.”

They’re working fast, friends, and what I semi-predict is, within four years, the combination of a liberal Executive Branch with Democrat majorities in the House and Senate will change the whole enchilada of the American existence, and I mean irreversibly so unless, on the next go-round, we elect another Republican majority and President who will do what our last such combination shamefully neglected to do: Their jobs, which are based upon remaining loyal to their voter base rather than their miserable, negligence ridden careers.

Too Something Too Late

The $64,000.00 question is why now, rather than a few years ago? Like, when they still enjoyed the trust of their conservative constituency…

The unanimous vote by House Republicans against President Obama’s stimulus plan provided an early indication that the GOP hopes to regain power by becoming the champion of small government, a reputation many felt slipped away during the high-spending Bush years.

I’m tired of voting for politicians simply because they are Republicans, or because they are the “lesser of two evils”. I mean, are they? We lost the majority on the Hill in November, 2006 because they abused the confidence vested in them by conservatives. Now they’re doing the right thing, but will this continue if we manage to regain leadership of the House and Senate, or will they simply return to their previous complacency and fat, butt-sitting worthlessness?

I’ll tell you this much; By 2012, we probably won’t even recognize our social and political landscapes, but whose fault is that?

I blame our own Republican politicians for screwing the pooch when we had the best of all worlds at our fingertips.