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		<title>Why Are the Senate Races Close?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 04:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republican battle cry that wasn't. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/race.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244185" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/race-450x300.jpg" alt="New York And NJ Residents Struggle To Recover One Week After Superstorm Sandy" width="257" height="171" /></a><strong>To order David Horowitz’s &#8220;<em>Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left</em>,&#8221; <a style="color: #800000;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Take-No-Prisoners-Battle-Defeating/dp/1621572560/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1406631034&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=take+no+prisoners">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>For six years the Democratic majority in the Senate has formed a solid bloc behind a president who betrayed every American soldier who died in Iraq by deliberately losing the war and failing to secure the peace. Obama’s anti-military, anti-American zeal has brought this country to its knees internationally. His cowardice when it comes to the use of force has created a terrorist threat greater than any America has faced since the height of the Cold War. With no dissent from the Democratic majority in the Senate.</p>
<p>The Senate Democrats have supported Obama’s anti-Constitutional efforts to crush their opposition through voter fraud and the political corruption of the IRS. They have embraced his open borders mania, which has introduced tens of thousands of criminal illegals into the American heartland, along with exotic viruses and unknown numbers of terrorists who come here with the intent to kill.</p>
<p>The Senate Democrats have supported Obama’s socialist schemes depriving Americans of the right to choose their health care, destroying millions of jobs, leaving 90 million idle, and 47 million on food stamps. They have turned a blind eye when his unconstitutional executive orders restored a malicious welfare system that condemns millions of disadvantaged Americans to lives of permanent poverty and denied them a shot at the American dream.</p>
<p>Senate Democrats have embraced the lynch mob in Ferguson and used this deplorable episode in their campaigns as a symbol of Republican racism instead. This is a classic case of projection since Democrats are the party of racial categories and racial malice. The nation’s most notorious lynch mob leader and premier racist, Al Sharpton, is the president’s special adviser on race. Thanks to Obama’s policies and the support of Senate Democrats the nation is more racially divided than it has been since the passage of the Civil Rights Acts in 1964 and 1965.</p>
<p>So why are the Senate races close? They are close because Republicans are paralyzed by a political cowardice that makes them reluctant to fight fire with fire. From election to election they are afraid to hold Democrats morally accountable for what they actually stand for and have done. Where is the Republican calling out the Democrats for their support for racists like Sharpton and the lynch mob demanding blood in the case of officer Darren Wilson? Where is the Republican decrying the betrayal of the brave Americans who died to keep Iraq free? Where is the Republican standing up for the millions of poor black and Hispanic children who languish in public schools that don’t teach them and whose lives are being crushed by Democratic “welfare” systems? Where is the Republican Party’s campaign against the Democrats’ totalitarian attempts to destroy the two-party system and empower criminals? Why is their political language so tepid when it comes to the outrages that Democrats daily commit?</p>
<p>Yes there are individual Republicans who take on these issues and the Republican Party has occasionally done so as well. But consider the tone of their arguments as compared to the Democrats’ moral indictments of Republicans as racists, and woman haters, and enemies of the poor. Where is the Republican language to match these indictments and neutralize these attacks?</p>
<p>The Democrats have launched a war against individual freedom and the American constitutional arrangement that defends it. That is the meaning of their attacks on the Second Amendment, their attempts to impose speech codes on a once free nation, and their determination to make voter fraud a normal corruption of the political process. Where is the Republican battle cry in defense of individual freedom? Republican opposition to the atrocity called “Obamacare” is framed in the language of accountants. Yes Obamacare will raise health care costs for those who can pay. But like all socialist programs the foundation of Obamacare is theft. Take the earnings of those who have worked and use it to subsidize the costs of those who don’t. This is an assault on individual freedom. But where is the Republican battle cry identifying it as such?</p>
<p>Fostering terrorist concentrations of power, opening America’s borders to criminals, failing to quarantine Ebola carriers, unleashing the IRS to crush their political opposition, supporting a lynch mob seeking to coerce the judicial process, violating the Constitution and stripping the representatives of the people of their authority and power – all these have a common core. They are a war against individual freedom. Why is this not the Republican campaign theme?</p>
<p>The Republican Party is the party of small business (the political billionaires are clustered among the Democrats). But politics cannot be viewed as a business. Democrats are missionaries seeking to change the world. Like all such missionaries from Lenin to ISIS, individual freedom presents a threat to their world transforming goal. They know what’s good for you, and they are determined to prevent you from resisting it. This is what the political battle is about and unless Republicans embrace the missionary attitude, and make freedom their rallying cry, it is not just elections they are jeopardizing but the future of our country as well.</p>
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		<title>Why Conservatives Win Elections and Lose the War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Right is sowing the seeds of its own demise. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/healthcare-human-right.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223543" alt="Occupy Wall Street supporters march call" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/healthcare-human-right-450x332.jpg" width="315" height="232" /></a>On April 1, 2014, President Barack Obama triumphantly announced that 7.1 million Americans had selected a health insurance plan through Obamacare. In doing so, he nastily labeled his political opposition uncaring and unfeeling. &#8220;Why are folks working so hard for people not to have health insurance?&#8221; Obama asked. &#8220;Why are they so mad about the idea of people having health insurance?&#8221;</p>
<p>That night, Comedy Central&#8217;s Stephen Colbert sat behind his desk at &#8220;The Colbert Report,&#8221; playing his version of a conservative: vicious, mean and cruel. &#8220;I wish I could come to you with some good news, but the worst imaginable thing has happened: Millions of Americans are going to get health care.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is why conservatives lose. They lose because while they proclaim that Obama&#8217;s signature legislation fails on the merits, raising costs and lowering access to vital services, the left surges forth with a different message: Conservatives are rotten to the core.</p>
<p>This message doesn&#8217;t just emanate from politicians in Washington. Entertainers like Colbert parrot back White House talking points in the guise of mockery. For many young people who get their news from Colbert, the only conservatism they see comes out of the mouth of a hard-core leftist playing a conservative who doesn&#8217;t exist. There is no conservative sitting up nights wondering how to deprive Americans of health insurance. But many young people don&#8217;t know that. They simply assume that the person Colbert is parodying <i>must </i>exist — otherwise, his satire isn&#8217;t satire at all, but a political smear job, an ugly and stereotypical blackfacing of conservatives.</p>
<p>For Colbert, to be funny, one of two alternatives must be true: Either his repulsive character must be based on a core reality — conservatives are evil — or his audience must believe in that core unreality.</p>
<p>With the help of Obama and an entertainment industry dedicated full time to the defacing of conservatives&#8217; character, the latter has certainly become the case. Too many Americans now perceive conservatives as morally deficient. All it has cost is hundreds of millions of dollars and several decades of consistent attacks springing from Hollywood and the political world.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why so many Americans now seem comfortable giving the government power to violate freedom of conscience for conservatives: Evil people don&#8217;t deserve freedom and therefore, can be deprived of it. People who consider themselves civil libertarians suddenly find their inner totalitarian when it comes to Christian-owned bakeries. That can only happen when those people become convinced that Christian-owned bakeries are fronts of hatred and darkness. And <i>that </i>can only happen when they are falsely maligned as such, over and over again.</p>
<p>Conservatives can win short-term political fights and lose the war for hearts and minds. And that&#8217;s precisely what has happened, thanks to the lack of moral clarity on the right. It&#8217;s not enough to be good on policy. Americans must think of you as good. By neglecting that deeper battle, conservatives sow the seeds of their own destruction — and the destruction of American freedoms, as well.</p>
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		<title>Fighting the Good Conservative Fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The three fronts on which conservatives must wage all-out war.]]></description>
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<div>Ever since the election, introspective Republicans, gloating Democrats and a largely corrupt media have offered innumerable suggestions regarding how the GOP can &#8220;reconstitute,&#8221; &#8220;re-brand&#8221; or &#8220;re-invent&#8221; itself to attract more Americans. The party must become more <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=GOP+must+become+more+diverse&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a" target="_blank">diverse</a>, more <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=GOP+must+become+more+inclusive&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a" target="_blank">inclusive</a>, more <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=GOP+must+become+more+compassionate&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a" target="_blank">compassionate</a> and/or more <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=GOP+must+become+more+modern&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a" target="_blank">modern</a>. Some of these arguments might have merit, but in reality there is only one thing Republicans must fully embrace: genuine conservatism, for two simple reasons. One, anything less makes them Democrat-lite, and voters will invariably prefer the real thing; and two, embracing conservatism is critical for the nation&#8217;s survival. That survival depends on conservatives first acknowledging, and then waging all-out war, on three critical fronts. Until that occurs, conservatives are doomed to irrelevancy.</div>
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<div>Anyone wondering how a president presiding over the weakest economic recovery ever recorded, a Middle East in flames, and heading an administration embroiled in at least three major scandals (Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and intel security leaks) got re-elected, can begin connecting the dots with this <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/dc-takes-top-honors-worst-graduation-rate-us" target="_blank">story</a> revealing that Washington, D.C. had the worst high school graduation rate in the country in 2011. Only 59 percent of its students graduated in the normal four years it takes to go from freshman to senior. Harry Reid&#8217;s  (D-NV) home state of Nevada comes in at number two with a 62 percent graduation rate. The highest graduation rate was in Iowa, where 88 percent of the students got their sheepskins.</div>
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<div>Does anyone still question what the future prospects are for those who haven&#8217;t graduated high school? Assuming every single child in the DC schools who graduated has a bright future, where are the more than four-in-ten others likely to end up? It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to figure out that under-educated individuals, who lack both job qualifications, and critical thinking skills, are virtually certain to end up on one government program or another.</div>
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<div>And those are the kids who <em>don&#8217;t</em> graduate. In New York City, 75 percent of those who <em>do</em> graduate still <a href="http://www.grammarmudge.cityslide.com/articles/article/307084/152147.htm" target="_blank">need</a> remedial math and English courses before they can do college work. New York is also a state where the &#8220;passing&#8221; grade was <a href="http://gothamist.com/2012/04/11/new_york_city_raises_expectations_o.php" target="_blank">raised</a> to 65 percent from 55 percent. As for history, the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress <a href="http://www.imperfectparent.com/topics/2011/06/14/u-s-students-still-lacking-in-american-history-knowledge/" target="_blank">revealed</a> that a paltry 13 percent of high school seniors were rated &#8220;proficient&#8221; in their knowledge of American history.</div>
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<div>In other words, even those who are considered &#8220;officially&#8221; educated remain woefully weak in three of the most critical areas necessary to produce thoughtful, potentially independent Americans capable of taking care of themselves. On the other hand, public school students are getting marinated in a variety &#8220;social justice&#8221; <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=715" target="_blank">agendas</a> that focus on radical environmentalism, and the &#8220;evils&#8221; of the capitalist system.</div>
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<div>Whose purpose does that serve? The <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php" target="_blank">political contributions</a> of the two largest education unions, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), tell the story. From 1989-2012, the NEA donated $49,769,888 to political campaigns. 64 percent of those donations went to Democrats, 4 percent to Republicans. The AFT donated $38,218,968 to political campaigns. 81 percent went to Democrats,<em> </em>and <em>0 percent </em>went to Republicans.</div>
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<div>This blatantly symbiotic relationship between those entrusted with educating American schoolchildren and the Democrat party has been in place for<em> decades. </em>Of the three critical fronts where conservatives must push back and push back hard, this one is, by far, the most important. No amount of &#8220;messaging&#8221; about conservative values can overcome a combination of inculcated ignorance and indoctrination. When the <em>bedrock principles</em> of our capitalist, democratic republic can be successfully vilified as a winning electoral strategy, nothing less than an all-out and unapologetic war to reverse the trend becomes necessary. As for compromise, forget it. There is no middle ground between freedom and tyranny, or fiscal solvency and national bankruptcy.</div>
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<div>The second front on which conservatives must expend major amounts of resources and energy is the effort to halt, and then reverse, the disintegration of the nuclear family. The <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/for-women-under-30-most-births-occur-outside-marriage.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">illustrates</a> the current reality: &#8220;It used to be called illegitimacy. Now it is the new normal. After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage.&#8221; Here&#8217;s where that &#8220;new normal&#8221; is leading: &#8220;Researchers have consistently found that children born outside marriage face elevated risks of falling into poverty, failing in school or suffering emotional and behavioral problems.&#8221;</div>
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<div>Columnist Ann Coulter <a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-07-18.html" target="_blank">reveals</a> exactly how elevated those risks are. &#8220;Children raised by a single mothers commit 72 percent of juvenile murders, 60 percent of rapes, have 70 percent of teenaged births, commit 70 percent of suicides and are 70 percent of high school dropouts,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;Controlling for socioeconomic status, race and place of residence, the strongest predictor of whether a person will end up in prison is being raised by a single parent.&#8221;</div>
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<div>Once again, do these sound like Americans who are likely to be receptive to conservative values regarding morality, ambition or self-reliance&#8211;or those who will respond to the siren song of Big Nanny statism, and its cradle-to-grave entitlements? Conservatives saw the Obama campaign&#8217;s <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/" target="_blank">&#8220;Life of Julia&#8221;</a> website, illuminating the federal government&#8217;s all-encompassing role in the life of an American woman, as amusing or embarrassing.</div>
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<div>Unmarried women apparently viewed it as indispensable. Nearly a quarter of the voters in the 2012 election were unmarried women, and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/09/single-women-voted-favour-obama" target="_blank">67 percent</a> of them voted for Obama, according to research by the Women&#8217;s Voices Women Vote Action Fund. Furthermore, unmarried women comprise almost 40 percent of the black American population, nearly 30 percent of the Latinos, and almost a third of all young voters.</div>
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<div>Susan Carroll of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University explains the obvious. &#8220;The Democrats are much more supportive of the social safety net, the programs that help people who need financial assistance, whether it be unemployment insurance, child nutrition programs, Medicaid, the whole infrastructure of the social welfare state that helps people who financially are more in need.&#8221; Nothing keeps people &#8220;in need&#8221; better than the disintegration of marriage and the nuclear family. As long as this trend continues to get worse, so will conservative electoral prospects.</div>
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<div>Which brings us to the third front, namely the mainstream media. Perhaps the only thing more daunting than the level of media bias with which conservatives have to contend, is the willingness of so many on the right to accommodate it. Nothing exemplifies this better than the RNC, the Romney campaign and Congressional Republicans <a href="http://blog.nj.com/njv_george_berkin/2012/08/a_setup_presidential_debate_mo.html" target="_blank">sitting still</a> when four leftist debate moderators were chosen for the presidential and vice presidential debates. Their spinelessness was &#8220;rewarded&#8221; when CNN hack Candy Crowley <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/10/17/cnns-crowley-first-plays-umpire-then-joins-team-obama/" target="_blank">took</a> the president&#8217;s side against Romney on the issue of Benghazi in the second presidential debate.</div>
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<div>Unfortunately, such spinelessness is nothing new. The <em>Americans Thinker&#8217;s</em> J.R. Dunn <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/conservatives_must_learn_the_dark_arts_of_image_manipulation.html" target="_blank">explains</a> its origins: &#8220;Image manipulation has been a useful tool for the left ever since liberalism turned transcendental as long ago as the New Deal&#8230;Since that time left-wing image manipulation has continued unabated through the Cold War (when conservatives were pilloried as McCarthyists), the Civil Rights Era (racists, naturally enough), the Reagan era, (the ‘decade of greed’), and the Bush era, which introduced &#8216;neocons,&#8217; a distortion of a very real faction which no leftist could have accurately defined if hung out a window by his heels.&#8221; The conservative response? &#8220;You can look long and hard to find any sign of effort by the conservative movement to combat or correct these stereotypes, from the day of their first appearance to the moment that you logged onto this site, and you will find nothing,&#8221; he writes.</div>
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<div>Such stereotypes can only be maintained by a combination of nurturing from the mainstream media, and a Republican willingness to let that nurturing occur unchallenged. Even now, the entire debate regarding the upcoming fiscal cliff is centered around the Republicans refusal to raise taxes on millionaires, which the media labels &#8220;obstructionist.&#8221; Yet that same label is never attached to Democrats, despite Senate Majority leader Harry Reid <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/nov/14/reid-takes-social-security-off-table/" target="_blank">taking</a> Social Security off the table, and fellow Democrats <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/269731-dems-raise-their-asking-price-for-a-deficit-deal" target="_blank">shielding</a> other entitlement programs from cuts, and insisting the debt ceiling be raised without conditions.</div>
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<div>Barack Obama can <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/10/17/obama_gop_wants_dirtier_air_dirtier_water_less_people_with_health_insurance.html" target="_blank">claim</a> Republicans want &#8220;dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance,&#8221; and Republican strategist Karl Rove <a href="http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2012/11/09/kincaid-republican-campaign-failed-to-confront-media-bias/" target="_blank">advises</a> his party members to avoid calling Obama a socialist or left-winger, and Mitt Romney to remain “focused on the facts and adopt a respectful tone” toward the president. Yet as I noted in a previous <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-suppress/" target="_blank">column</a>, the mainstream media was more than willing to keep several inconvenient &#8220;facts&#8221; under wraps until after the election was over&#8211;and Republicans, including Mitt Romney, were more than willing to go along.</div>
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<div>It didn&#8217;t work. Moreover, it has <em>never</em> worked, and the sooner Republicans and conservatives realize it, the better their chances of winning elections. The best course of action is simple: assume the media is hostile, and be <em>prepared</em> to act accordingly. It is worth remembering that for all his faults, Newt Gingrich galvanized audiences during the Republican presidential debates when he criticized the media moderators, or challenged the premises of their questions. In short, he stood in stark contrast to those Republicans whose lack of forcefulness and commitment to conservative ideals makes them timid by comparison. No election has ever been won by a timid candidate. People sense cowardice, and more often than not, such cowardice trumps good ideas.</div>
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<div>As a result of the first two developments mentioned above, Americans have become many things, but one them stands out: a majority of people are ignorant (not stupid), and that ignorance has left them largely disengaged from traditional American culture, customs and history. As such, they gravitate to the political party willing to do their thinking for them, forming one large bloc of Democrats. The other large bloc is comprised of those willing to tell the first bloc how to live their lives. Together they formed the majority that reelected the president. Throw in a mainstream media more than willing to trumpet such an arrangement as &#8220;inclusive,&#8221; and &#8220;broad based,&#8221; and, despite all the wishing and hoping from the right, the election was never really in doubt.</div>
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<div>Conservatives need to understand that none of this happened overnight. The public schools have been dumbing down education for decades, single motherhood has been on a steady increase since the onset of LBJ&#8217;s Great Society of 1960s, and the mainstream media has tilted left ever since the <em>New York Times&#8217;</em> Walter Duranty was singing the praises of Joseph Stalin&#8217;s &#8220;democratic&#8221; revolution back in the early 30s&#8211;and winning a Pulitzer Prize for it.</div>
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<div>A serious and sustained pushback is long overdue. Conservatives should get on with it, and <em>never</em> lose sight of their ultimate advantage over Democrats: the progressive agenda is <em>unsustainable,</em> absent the eventual imposition of a totalitarian state. The left may yearn for equality. It is up to conservatives to pound home the historical reality that equality has only been achieved when everyone has been made equally miserable&#8211;and that even then, such equality necessitates an all-powerful elite to enforce it.</div>
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		<title>Obamacare Bill: A Declaration of War</title>
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<p>The President was right about one thing: The vote on Obamacare last night  was a historic one.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party has in the course of the nine-month health care debate revealed itself to be an anti-democratic Party and an anti-liberty party. It is a party that has demonstrated its contempt for the Constitutional framework,  for the democratic process, and for the expressed will of the American people. Its brazen contempt for the compact that holds the diverse factions of this country together has initiated a political war at home that will extend not only into the next elections but into the next generations that will be encumbered with the trillions in debt and oppressive government controls that the socialist majority in Congress has demonstrated that it is intent on inflicting on this country.</p>
<p>The people of this nation are still sovereign, and their voice will be heard. Last night’s vote was lost but it is not the end of the battle.</p>
<p>It is the beginning.</p>
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<p><strong>[This article is reprinted from the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/">Jerusalem Post</a>].</strong></p>
<p>Why has President Barak Obama decided to foment a crisis in US relations with Israel?</p>
<p>Some commentators have claimed that it is Israel’s fault. As they tell it, the news that Israel has not banned Jewish construction inJerusalem – after repeatedly refusing to ban such construction – drove Obama into a fit of uncontrolled rage from which he has yet to recover.</p>
<p>While popular, this claim makes no sense. Obama didn’t come to be called “No drama Obama” for nothing. It is not credible to argue thatJerusalem’s local planning board’s decision to approve  the construction of 1,600 housing units in Ramat Shlomo drove cool Obama into a fit of wild rage at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.</p>
<p>Obama himself claims that he has launched a political war against Israel in the interest of promoting peace. But this claim, too, does not stand up to scrutiny.</p>
<p>On Friday, Obama ordered Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to present Netanyahu with a four-part ultimatum.</p>
<p>First, Israel must cancel the approval of the housing units in Ramat Shlomo.</p>
<p>Second, Israel must prohibit all construction for Jews in Jerusalem neighborhoods built since 1967.</p>
<p>Third, Israel must make a gesture to the Palestinians to show them we want peace. The US suggests releasing hundreds of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons.</p>
<p>Fourth, Israel must agree to negotiate all substantive issues, including the partition of Jerusalem (including the Jewish neighborhoods constructed since 1967 that are now home to more than a half million Israelis) and the immigration of millions of hostile foreign Arabs to Israel under the rubric of the so-called “right of return,” in the course of indirect, Obama administration-mediated negotiations with the Palestinians. To date, Israel has maintained that substantive discussions can only be conducted in direct negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian officials.</p>
<p>If Israel does not accept all four US demands, then the Obama administration will boycott Netanyahu and his senior ministers. In the first instance, this means that if Netanyahu comes to Washington next week for the AIPAC conference, no senioradministration official will meet with him.</p>
<p>Obama’s ultimatum makes clear that mediating peace between Israel and the Palestinians is not a goal he is interested in achieving.</p>
<p>Obama’s new demands follow the months of American pressure that eventually coerced Netanyahu into announcing both his support for a Palestinian state and a 10-month ban on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria. No previous Israeli government had ever been asked to make the latter concession.</p>
<p>Netanyahu was led to believe that in return for these concessions Obama would begin behaving like the credible mediator his predecessors were. But instead of acting like his predecessors, Obama has behaved like the Palestinians. Rather than reward Netanyahu for taking a risk for peace, Obama has, in the model of Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, pocketed Netanyahu’s concessions and escalated his demands. This is not the behavior of a mediator. This is the behavior of an adversary.</p>
<p>With the US president treating Israel like an enemy, the Palestinians have no reason to agree to sit down and negotiate. Indeed, they have no choice but to declare war.</p>
<p>And so, in the wake of Obama’s onslaught on Israel’s right to Jerusalem, Palestinian incitement against Israel and Jews has risen to levels not seen since the outbreak of the last terror war in September 2000. And just as night follows day, that incitement has led to violence. This week’s Arab riots fromJerusalem to Jaffa, and the renewed rocket offensive from Gaza are directly related to Obama’s malicious attacks on Israel.</p>
<p>But if his campaign against Israel wasn’t driven by a presidential temper tantrum, and it isn’t aimed at promoting peace, what explains it? What is Obama trying to accomplish?</p>
<p>There are five explanations for Obama’s behavior. And they are not mutually exclusive.</p>
<p>First, Obama’s assault on Israel is likely related to the failure of his Iran policy. Over the past week, senior administration officials including Gen. David Petraeus have made viciously defamatory attacks on Israel, insinuating that the construction of homes for Jews in Jerusalem is a primary cause for bad behavior on the part of Iran and its proxies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. By this line of thinking, if Israel simply returned to the indefensible 1949 armistice lines, Iran’s centrifuges would stop spinning, and Syria, al-Qaida, the Taliban, Hizbullah, Hamas and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards would all beat their swords into plowshares.</p>
<p>Second, even more important than its usefulness as a tool to divert the public’s attention away from the failure of his Iran policy, Obama’s assault against Israel may well be aimed at maintaining that failed policy. Specifically, he may be attacking Israel in a bid to coerce Netanyahu into agreeing to give Obama veto power over any Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear installations. That is, the anti-Israel campaign may be a means to force Israel to stand by as Obama allows Iran to build a nuclear arsenal.</p>
<p>For the past several months, an endless line of senior administration officials have descended on Jerusalem with the expressed aim of convincing Netanyahu to relinquish Israel’s right to independently strike Iran’s nuclear installations. All of these officials have returned to Washington empty-handed. Perhaps Obama has decided that since quiet pressure has failed to cow Netanyahu, it is time to launch a frontal attack against him.</p>
<p>This brings us to the third explanation for why Obama has decided to go to war with the democratically elected Israeli government. Obama’s advisers told friendly reporters that Obama wants to bring down Netanyahu’s government. By making demands Netanyahu and his coalition partners cannot accept, Obama hopes to either bring down the government and replace Netanyahu and Likud with the far-leftist Tzipi Livni and Kadima, or force Israel Beiteinu and Shas to bolt the coalition and compel Netanyahu to accept Livni as a co-prime minister. Livni, of course, won Obama’s heart when in 2008 she opted for an election rather than accept Shas’s demand that she protect the unity ofJerusalem.</p>
<p>The fourth explanation for Obama’s behavior is that he seeks to realign US foreign policy away from Israel. Obama’s constant attempts to cultivate relations with Iran’s unelected president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ahmadinejad’s Arab lackey Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, and Turkey’s Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan make clear that he views developing USrelations with these anti-American regimes as a primary foreign policy goal.</p>
<p>Given that all of these leaders have demanded that in exchange for better relations Obama abandon Israel as a US ally, and in light of the professed anti-Israel positions of several of his senior foreign policy advisers, it is possible that Obama is seeking to downgrade USrelations with Israel. His consistent castigation of Israel as obstructionist and defiant has led some  surveys to claim that over the past year US popular support for Israel has dropped from 77 to 58 percent.</p>
<p>The more Obama fills newspaper headlines with allegations that Israel is responsible for everything from US combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan to Iran’s nuclear program, the lower those numbers can be expected to fall. And the more popular American support for Israel falls, the easier it will be for Obama to engineer an open breach with the Jewish state.</p>
<p>The final explanation for Obama’s behavior is that he is using his manufactured crisis to justify adopting an overtly anti-Israel position vis-à-vis the Palestinians. On Thursday, The New York Times reported that administration officials are considering having Obama present his own “peace plan.” Given the administration’s denial of Israel’s right to Jerusalem, an “Obama plan,” would doubtless require Israel to withdraw to the indefensible 1949 armistice lines and expel some 700,000 Jews from their homes.</p>
<p>Likewise, the crisis Obama has manufactured with Israel could pave the way for him to recognize a Palestinian state if the Palestinians follow through on their threat to unilaterally declare statehood next year regardless of the status of negotiations with Israel. Such a US move could in turn lead to the deployment of US forces in Judea and Samaria to “protect” the unilaterally declared Palestinian state from Israel.</p>
<p>Both Obama’s behavior and the policy goals it indicates make it clear that Netanyahu’s current policy of trying to appease Obama by making concrete concessions is no longer justified. Obama is not interested in being won over. The question is, what should Netanyahu do?</p>
<p>One front in the war Obama has started is at home. Netanyahu must ensure that he maintains popular domestic support for his government to scuttle Obama’s plan to overthrow his government. So far, in large part due to Obama’s unprecedented nastiness, Netanyahu’s domestic support has held steady. A poll conducted for IMRA news service this week by Maagar Mohot shows that fully 75% of Israeli Jews believe Obama’s behavior toward Israel is unjustified. As for Netanyahu, 71% of Israeli Jews believe his refusal to accept Obama’s demand to ban Jewish building in Jerusalem proves he is a strong leader. Similarly, a Shvakim Panorama poll for Israel Radio shows public support for Kadima has dropped by more than 30% since last year’s election.</p>
<p>The other front in Obama’s war is the American public. By blaming Israel for the state of the Middle East and launching personal barbs against Netanyahu, Obama seeks to drive down popular American support for Israel. In building a strategy to counter Obama’s moves, Netanyahu has to keep two issues in mind.</p>
<p>First, no foreign leader can win a popularity contest against a sitting US president. Therefore, Netanyahu must continue to avoid any personal attacks on Obama. He must limit his counter-offensive to a defense of Israel’s interests and his government’s policies.</p>
<p>Second, Netanyahu must remember that Obama’s hostility toward Israel is not shared by the majority of Americans. Netanyahu’s goal must be to strengthen and increase the majority of Americans who support Israel. To this end, Netanyahu must go to Washington next week and speak at the annual AIPAC conference as planned, despite the administration’s threat to boycott him.</p>
<p>While in Washington, Netanyahu should meet with every Congressman and Senator who wishes to meet with him as well as every administration member who seeks him out. Moreover, he should give interviews to as many television networks, newspapers and major radio programs as possible in order to bring his message directly to the American people.</p>
<p>Obama has made clear that he is not Israel’s ally. And for the remainder of his term, he will do everything he can to downgrade US relations with Israel while maintaining his constant genuflection to the likes of Iran, Syria, the Palestinians and Turkey.</p>
<p>But like Israel, the US is a free country. And as long as popular support for Israel holds steady, Obama’s options will be limited. Netanyahu’s task is to maintain that support in the face of administration hostility as he implements policies toward Iran and the Arabs alike that are necessary to ensure Israel’s long-term survival and prosperity.         <!--[ Block Spacer Start ]--></p>
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