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It’s not quite 9th month of Barack Obama’s Presidency.  Who is the baby going to look like?

Conservatives have been asking and examining the warning signals of what Obama is planning to birth.  In a whirlwind of activity, with Republicans still reeling from the election loss and in disarray due to leadership changes (lack of leadership whatsoever?), Obama’s Administration and handlers have moved quickly to implement alarming changes, part of a blueprint to radically transform America.

Conservatives and moderates alike are justifiably alarmed at the disregard for due process.  Overwhelming intrusiveness embedded in the health care initiatives and enormous deficit spending to stabilize and bail out the financial services and automobile industries are promoted as necessary for economic recovery and progress.  A groundswell of dissent has arisen, in particular at Tea Party gatherings to protest the inevitability of tax burden inflicted by these programs, and opposition to big government’s intrusion into daily life.

Obama’s careless appointments and associations, with no vetting and inconsistent policy, are on occasion (see: Van Jones) undone when this kind of sunlight shines.  More alarming is the seeming irresponsibility and amateurism associated with the staffing process and the circumvention of congressional approval and oversight on all the “czars.” Add the inconsistencies in foreign policy which, considering the usual suspects who are the messengers, would signal a cover-up or slight of hand, and we’ve got the perfect storm, a sudden and overwhelming tsunami by design.  The frenetic pace set by Obama and his team have everyday Americans pulling hard at the emergency brake.

We know what little we know, but what don’t we know?  The most transparent Administration in history isn’t particularly interested in telling.  Throughout this gestation, some of us have wondered what we’re not seeing or hearing about.  Mainstream media, famous for under-reporting or no reporting of Obama’s behind-the-scenes machinations, appears to be complicit and even overtly championing the Administration.  As such, it’s not only difficult to keep track of what’s going on, but even more difficult to uncover what the Administration might not want you to know.

Into the maelstrom come Nancy Matthis and Austin Davis, with a chilling prediction, but a handy summation of what Obama has wrought in 9 short months:

• Obama quickly removed the census from the Department of Commerce and placed it under Rahm Emanuel in the White House. He appropriated millions to the socialist advocacy group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) to man the operation.
• He has appointed 45 czars to date (two have already departed), most unvetted and unconfirmed by Congress. These authoritarians parallel the cabinet functions, which must be vetted by Congress.
• He frightened Congress into passing a ridiculous spending bill, aka stimulus bill, that has plunged the United States into a downward spiral of debt and made us beholden to communist China.
• He nationalized financial institutions.
• He took over automobile companies, restructured their financial operations, and replaced their executives at will.
• The Democrats in Congress introduced legislation for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to begin developing central internment centers within the continental United States.
• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an official publication profiling returning vets and politcal conservatives, among others, as “terrorists.”
• The military began training a unit for civilian population control.
• The Democrats in Congress moved to control all the water in the United States, every drop of it.
• The Democrats in Congress moved to control all the food in the United States, not only mandating what every farmer may or may not do, but also controlling the seeds.
• Obama is seeking control of the Internet, including the authority to shut it down in time of crisis.
• The Democrats in Congress are currently seeking federal control for delivery of health care in the United States, including creation of a panel of bureaucrats who will decide who gets treated.
• Obama is encouraging American citizens to inform on their friends and neighbors who criticize his health care program to the White House.
• Obama has arrogantly used taxpayer money to pursue partisan objectives.
• The Democrats in Congress are trying to legislate mandatory national service for all young people, which would exclude Christian expression for the duration.
• Obama’s Federal Communications Commission operative, Mark Lloyd, is currently seeking to seize control of radio broadcasts in the United States, with an eye to shutting down conservative talk radio. Lloyd has openly expressed his admiration for Hugo Chavez, who shut down radio stations in Venezuela that expressed dissent about his socialist programs.
• Most recently, Obama bypassed elected school boards and school district superintendents to schedule a speech to all of the country’s school children, and issued lesson plans. This action is a violation of existing law, but if allowed to go unchallenged it establishes a precedent for direct federal control of education content.

If you’re inclined to dismiss each one of these actions or appropriations as innocuous or harmless, remember that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Hat tip:  Debbie Hamilton

Hey, everybody know what fisking is?  It’s really something to have your own personal verb, named after you!  It’s a noun, too.  Robert Fisk is as famous as Kleenex and Xerox!

David Forsmark, of the Newsreal Blog, delivers a yeoman’s fisk of Keith Olbermann’s latest diatribe against Glenn Beck, exposing it for what it is:  covering fire for Van Jones.  Earth to Olby: Van’s on the curb and the bus is coming.  See:  Jeremiah Wright and Barry’s Grandma.

Wondering . . .

Why there were so many war protests for so long and now there just aren’t any?

How Joe Biden can brag about how well the economy is responding and August jobless numbers are at 9.7% – or over 16% if you add the fudged numbers?  ADP found an additional 80,000 job losses that weren’t included in the 9.7%.  The good news is the government is hiring, and the healthcare industry is, too.  Why don’t we hear about that?

What is an avowed Communist and 9/11 Truther doing as anything in a government administration, let alone Green Czar?  Is Van Brown some kind of Renaissance Guy?

How come our 45 casualties in the Middle East this month went unremarked by the media as the worst.losses.ever?  Cindy Sheehan is still worked up about it, but she’s not camped out in Crawford anymore, is she?

Why conservatives are portrayed as rabid mobs, but liberals are the ones biting fingers off and beating people up?

Why it’s okay for one President to address the nation’s “schoochildren” [sic] with Department of Education talking points, but not another?

Why Gov. Jennifer Granholm thinks the “Michigan Experiment” is a shining example of how government giveaways can create an increase of .25% in jobs and maintain status in the bottom 3 of states most hospitable for new business growth?

Why tort reform isn’t part of an effort to contain healthcare costs?

How come the media can’t get enough of Gov. Mark Sanford, but John Edwards is missing in action?

Here’s somebody else who was wondering about stuff: