A Conservative Plan B

If Obama wins the presidential election it will be four hard years for America. The four years under Carter will not compare. Obama is determined to make deep, very profound changes to the education system, health care, the tax system and just about everything in between.

His radical allies will push him even farther and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will make sure Congress walks in line with him. A good comparison to illustrate what an Obama administration will bring is the 1930s. The Roosevelt administration and a solid Democrat majority in Congress passed sweeping economic planning legislation that perpetuated and even deepened the serious economic problems that followed the 1929 stock market crash.

Should Obama win it will be incumbent upon our young Republican leaders to play a very active role in opposing him and a Pelosi-Reid led Congress. They will have to do whatever they can to set counter-examples, especially in their own states. A large part of the federal government's powers today run through programs that are co-sponsored by states. Those programs will likely grow dramatically under an Obama administration. One way to resist the massive expansion of government under Obama will be to cut states loose of those programs. A state that refuses federal funds is also liberated of the regulations that come with those funds.

If the federal government tries to run those programs on its own it will have to face court challenges under the General Welfare Clause and the Commerce Clause, as well as the Tenth Amendment.

But the new Republican leadership will also have to prepare for the fact that an Obama administration will be run Chicago thug-style. This means that anyone opposing them will face tougher challenges than anyone who tried to oppose the Clintons in the '90s. A good proxy for how Obama will govern is Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. A new Republican leadership must prepare to stand up to such extra-ordinary forms of presidential powers, from abuse of the IRS to local Obama Militia gangs creating public unrest in cities and states that are predominantly negative toward Obama.