2013 obama reelected
and republicans win congress.
Unions will be much more powerful in national affairs than they are already. The Federal government will become much more like the state of California. In the Golden State, governing is only possible with the consent of the unions who control most, if not all, of the state’s Democratic party elected officials. Don’t believe it? Try and take one thin dime away from a public employees pension and see what happens here in California. Obama is similarly beholden to the unions. He has already bowed to them greatly on labor policies and trade agreements at a great cost to our free market system.
The bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. will be greatly expanded. Obama has quietly begun circumventing the role of Congress by expanding the grasp and power of the red tape makers within government. An expanding Health and Human Services bureau, the NLRB, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a job killing EPA come to mind. Who needs Congress when a bureaucrat can rule by decree?
The cost of doing business in the U.S. will rise. From ObamaCare to EPA rulings to more taxes and regulation. A second Obama term would mean less entrepreneurism and more crony capitalism. The use of the term “crony capitalism” may be a misnomer here. The correct term may be “connected capitalism”. Those that have access to and understand how to maneuver within in the halls of government will flourish over those that simply have a good idea and work hard.
Now to think what happens in Washington if Mr. Obama not only gets reelected, but the Dems hold the Senate and Nan Pelosi gets another round as Speaker of the House.
Mr. Obama would no longer have to worry about our “messy, tough democracy”. He’d be able to do whatever he wanted. From amnesty to a collectivist tax policy to gun control to restricting free political speech (all in the name of “fairness” of course).
If the Democrats somehow run the table next year, look for them to be emboldened to the point of terror. Most if not all bills would be passed in the manner that the Affordable Care Act was passed. No minority input, no minority votes. To the left, it will be seen as the big get even. The rest of us will see it for what it is:
a dictatorship in all but name.