California Conservative

After reading this AP article about President Obama’s former campaign supporters now morphing into his agenda’s supporters, it’s obvious that we need our own army. Here’s what the AP is reporting:

US President Barack Obama mustered his powerful campaign army on Monday, calling on his millions of supporters to lobby on behalf of his budget and economic plan. The appeal to back the president was made in an email and video sent out by “Organizing for America,” the organization which morphed out of Obama’s campaign machinery to push his agenda when he entered the White House.

In the video, Mitch Stewart, the director of Organizing for America, urged the president’s supporters to take part in the “Organizing for America Pledge Project.”

“The pledge project is an ambitious effort to map out and identify support for President Obama’s economic blueprint across towns and communities in America,” Stewart said.

There’s undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of Obama supporters that still support his socialist agenda. They’re undoubtedly willing to flood the Senate’s phone banks. With a number of weak-kneed Republicans willing to betray their Republican colleagues, the omnibus spending bill will pass.

What’s needed now is for us to organize an army that mobilizes around Main Street-approved reforms. the last thing we need more of is President Obama’s Beltway-centered, lobbyist-supported agenda.

President Obama’s budget, this omnibus spending bill and the less-than-stimulating stimulus bill are the lobbyists’ dream come true. We’ve seen Wall Street’s reaction to President Obama’s policies. Anyone thinking that major corporation after major corporation that pulls its money out of the stock market won’t have an impact on the economy is a fool’s fool.

Rather than sitting idly by, it’s time for small businesses, still-healthy big corporations and Main Street to join forces in sending a message to Congress that more radical, counternproductive policies will be met with ferocity in November, 2010.

Instead of lobbyist-supported spending increases, we need Main Street-supported reforms that differentiate between wants and needs, reduce spending and force fiscal sanity on Washington.

The CBO already is saying that President Obama’s budget, coupled with the stimulus bill that Speaker Pelosi wrote, will significantly slow GDP growth for the next decade. Pundits talk about spending the next generation’s money but that’s sugarcoating it. The reality is that President Obama’s budget is already spending money that the generation after that will pay for.

We’ve all heard the saying that “all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” Today is the day that we must decide if we’re going to do nothing. If we do nothing, we will have let evil triumph.

People thinking that sitting idly by while President Obama’s policies and Speaker Pelosi’s legislation diminish our prospects for prosperity and rob us of our economic liberty isn’t letting evil triumph aren’t thinking things through properly.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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