{"id":4050,"date":"2012-03-09T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=4050"},"modified":"2012-03-09T20:55:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T04:55:34","slug":"10-disasters-america-will-face-if-obama-gets-a-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/10-disasters-america-will-face-if-obama-gets-a-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Disasters America Will Face if Obama Gets a Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"By Marc Thiessen \/ THE AMERICAN<\/a>
\nIn today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Washington Post, I argue<\/a> that while electing a transformational conservative president may not be in the cards this November, stopping a transformational liberal president still is. The damage of a second Obama term could be potentially irrevocable. I asked a number of conservative thinkers what they feared most from a second term, and compiled this list of the top ten disasters that would befall America if Obama were re-elected this fall:<\/p>\n

1. Obamacare will not be repealed.<\/p>\n

2. The unprecedented levels of spending in Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first four years will become the new floor, as America sets new records for fiscal profligacy and debt.<\/p>\n

3. Job creators will face massive tax increases, and more Americans will come off the tax rolls\u00e2\u20ac\u201dresulting in fewer citizens with a stake in keeping taxes low and more with a stake in protecting benefits.<\/p>\n

4. Government dependency, already at record levels, will continue to grow.<\/p>\n

5. Four lost years in dealing with the entitlement crisis will become eight\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddigging us into a hole from which we may not be able to emerge.<\/p>\n

6. Obama, unworried about the impact of gas and electricity prices on his reelection, will finally wage the regulatory war on fossil fuels the Left demands.<\/p>\n

7. He will unleash the Environmental Protection Agency to impose crushing new burdens on U.S. business.<\/p>\n

8. His administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s assault on religious freedom will go on and expand to new areas.<\/p>\n

9. The Defense Department will be gutted, with cuts so deep that America will no longer be a superpower.<\/p>\n

10. Obama could have the opportunity to appoint more liberal Supreme Court justices, ending the Roberts court in all but name for a generation.<\/p>\n

This is, of course, not a complete list\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot by a long shot. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be interested what readers and my fellow AEI scholars think: What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s missing from this litany of impending disasters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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