Two thousand and twelve is now upon us, and one thing is clear: It will be a nation-defining year. The election that will take place just over ten months from now will serve either as a welcome reaffirmation, or as a significant repudiation, of America’s founding principles of limited government and liberty.
No prior administration has sought to consolidate as much power, money, and control in Washington as this one has — and no legislation in all of American history has consolidated as much power, money, and control in Washington as Obamacare would (if it isn’t repealed first). President Obama talks a lot, in disparaging terms, about the “profit motive.” But Obamacare’s astounding 2,700 pages of rules, mandates, and regulations is the fulfillment of the power motive — of the desire to control the lives and actions of 300 million people from the nation’s capital.
More than likely, from the look of things, no leader equal to the moment will emerge to combat Obama. Thus, the American people will likely have to summon the requisite wisdom to combat Obamacare in the absence of such leadership. The key step in that opposition, of course, is defeating Obama.
As Obama seeks to win and thereby to solidify his legacy, several questions loom large: Will the American people rise up against his signature legislation as they did in the lead-up to its tainted passage? Will they make Obama pay the price for having brazenly ignored the “clear and deliberate sense of the community” in imposing Obamacare against popular will? Faced with a choice of two futures, will they choose statism and decline, or liberty and prosperity? The year ahead will provide the answers and will set the course of this nation for decades to come.
