The times are bad for America — and Obama

Things haven’t gone well for the American people or President Obama lately.

Although the most recent, most terrible problem — the murderous bombings at the Boston Marathon — ended as well as it could have, all things considered. One radical Islamist terrorist was killed; the other was captured after a city-wide manhunt. The citizens of Boston were celebrating last night, waving American flags and chanting “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” — on the 238th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution with the battles at Lexington and Concord, which occurred just a few miles from Boston. What an appropriate day for a happy ending to a horrible outrage.

Of course, Obama may glean some third-hand glory from the FBI’s key role in helping to track down the Tsarnaev brothers. But all in all, his ballyhooed “honeymoon” to start his second term is definitely over. His ObamaCare (as its opponents call it) national health-care plan appears to sprout more bad news every day, as some of those things we didn’t know were in the bill until Congress passed it (to paraphrase former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi) start to emerge from the Pandora’s Box which was opened on the American people. Those things have mainly proved to be additional health-care costs for us — but stay tuned. We probably ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.

His passionate desire to disarm the American people (that’s his real, bottom-line intention, no matter how much he denies it), using the emotions aroused by the heinous slaughter of 20 children and six adults at Newtown, Connecticut last December, appears to be sputtering to a stop, as the Senate this week defeated a gun-control amendment which was painfully hammered out to try to satisfy both the anti-gun senators and those who are concerned about violation of the Second Amendment. Things all fell apart when several Democratic senators from Red states — those leaning conservative — and facing re-election campaigns next year, decided that universal background checks on gun purchasers wouldn’t accomplish that much, after all. The chances of  a similar bill passing the House were near zero anyway, as the Republicans who control it are deeply suspicious of Obama and his fellow liberals on the subject of “gun controls.”

The depth of liberals’ anger and frustration at the Senate’s action is typified by the Louisville Courier-Journal’s editorial and op-ed pages for this Friday. The entirety of both pages is devoted to an editorial, political commentary, and letters to the editor, all raising hell with the senators who allegedly are “owned by the National Rifle Association.”

But  most conservatives are convinced (rightly, in my opinion) that “gun background checks” are merely the first step on a planned liberal journey to “gun confiscation,” as happened in both Britain and Australia, just to mention two countries whose civilian populations are now officially disarmed. And while polls showed up to 90 percent of Americans supporting “universal background checks” for gun purchases, that support is soft, while the feelings of the millions of Americans who own firearms legally, led by the NRA, are hard and implacable. And remember: When those American colonists began in 1775 their battle to free themselves from an oppressor, they were using their own guns.

And on Monday, the horrendous bombing which killed three people and wounded as many as 170 at the Boston Marathon diverted America’s attention from domestic gun owners, to the possibility of foreign terrorists, a la 9/11. Anything that smacks of an external threat to America — real, or imagined — tends to cause us Yankees to circle the wagons, and break out the firearms. Not a good time for pushing gun control.

Liberal commentators were hoping against hope that the bomber or bombers would turn out to be White, native-born Americans — preferably members of the KKK or the Aryan Brotherhood. That way they, and liberal politicians, starting with Obama, could continue to pretend that there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism. But — oops! — the Tsarnaev brothers turned out to be Muslims, AND White — immigrants from Chechnya, in the Caucasus Mountains. And here we’d been told all along that anti-Islamic feelings by Whites were “racist”. Gee — Islam really IS a religion, and not a race!

On top of all that, an apparently mentally disturbed man from Mississippi — an Elvis impersonator, yet — has been arrested for mailing envelopes contaminated with the deadly poison ricin to both Obama, and Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker. Neither envelope reached its target, as they were intercepted by suspicious postal and/or congressional staff personnel and turned over to police for analysis.

Obama all but threw a tantrum after the Senate’s vote on background checks, accusing those who opposed him as “lying” and “ignoring the wishes of the American people.” The Mulatto Messiah does not like it when people oppose or contradict him. Look at the accompanying photo of him and Vice President Joe Biden. They look like toddlers whose candy has just been stolen.

But he was on firmer ground Thursday in his remarks at the memorial service in Boston for the three persons killed in the bombings, than he has been in his fevered attempts to use the families of Newtown victims, Gabby Giffords, etc., as props and extras to push his anti-gun legislation through Congress. As I said above, we Americans tend to circle the wagons, lock and load the guns, and respond enthusiastically to presidential leadership when such a tragedy as Boston — or 9/11, or Oklahoma City — occurs. Threaten us from without, and America becomes one, regardless of all our differences. Try to demonize a particular class of Americans — in this case, Obama is doing that to gun owners, and especially, the National Rifle Association — and you stir up a hornet’s nest of controversy.

Last but possibly not least in the recent spate of bad news has been the mainstream media’s finally coming out of its comatose state in regard to the Kermit Gosnell trial in Philadelphia. Gosnell is an abortionist who runs an inner-city clinic. I refuse to use the politically correct term “abortion provider”. Gosnell is an abortionist, the same as a person who provides dental care is a dentist. Except that the dentist doesn’t kill babies for a living.

Gosnell’s clinic has been described in a grand jury report which preceded his indictment for the killings of seven babies born live, and of one pregnant woman, as a “charnal house,” filthy, with the severed, tiny hands and feet of aborted babies pickled in jars of formaldehyde. Testimony at the trial has told of Gosnell, and people who work for him at the clinic, killing babies who survived abortions at the clinic by snipping their spinal cords, effectively if not actually beheading them.

One particularly gruesome incident described under oath was of an aborted baby emerging from the womb as the woman sat on a toilet, and of the tiny, living infant’s arms and legs paddling frantically in the water as if it was trying to swim out. Gosnell ended its struggles by snipping the spinal cord — standard operating procedure.

The mainstream media, to which the phrase “a woman’s right to choose” is more sacred than the Bible, had managed to ignore the trial for some time, before being shamed into taking some official notice of it by several opinion pieces by conservative, pro-life columnists which finally made it into the national consciousness, principally through an article in U.S.A. Today. Of course the details of the testimony puts the liberal sacred cow of “abortion” into a horrible light — which is the precise reason that the liberal media tried to keep it as much on the “down-low” as possible.

Obama always has been an outspoken supporter of abortion — excuse me, of “a woman’s right to choose” — and thus may wind up being tarred with the same brush as Gosnell. And yes, that can be construed as a racial term if you want to make one of it, liberals.

Islamic terrorists again rearing their ugly heads; gun control going down to defeat, and the president reacting petulantly; the dark side of abortion (is there any other side?) forced into public view. Not a good week. Not for America, because now we’re once again looking over our shoulders for terrorists, facing a president who won’t give up his obsession with taking our weapons, and forced to look “a woman’s right to choose” dead in the face and see it for what it all too often is.

And not for Barack Obama. No doubt he will try to circumvent the Senate’s vote with some executive orders — he’s done it before, and seems to think it’s perfectly OK. But he should keep in mind that the Republicans still control the House, and will until at least November of 2014. He has gone out of his way to present the GOP with unpalatable choices, to act dismissive and arrogant toward the Republicans in Congress, to behave as if he thinks he’s “The Emperor” instead of “The Chief Executive.” It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that the House could find an excuse to vote articles of impeachment against this man who has such a high opinion of himself, and such a low one of its members.

That wouldn’t be a very nice legacy for you to leave, would it, Mr. President?