It Was Only Yesterday We Celebrated a Death of Marxism: Alas, With Obama We Are Creating Our Own

There is always the unexpected in life.  

Some unexpected events of the past seem ancient, others as if they happened only  yesterday.

I never thought that  the Marxist scourage of our time, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics would ever come tumbling down in my life time.   The Russian Empire could not exist without its dictatorship…..without its complete control over thought and talk.    For seventy  years its people had been forced to be equally poor, bored, isolated and fearful.

Nor did I ever even dream that  this empire, no matter how rotten to the core, would let go of any of its winnings, its vassals of Eastern Europe.

And then it happened, November of 1989.   The collapse was swift, and comparitively unbloody.    A great moment for decency throughout the world.    The Cold War has passed.    One combatant had disintegrated from its Marxism.  

But the Joy was not to last.   The other combatant, our America, experienced a short lived victory to be tarnished with the rise of own brand of Marxism twenty years later with the rise of its  one party educational industry, entertainment industry, communications industry which have created America’s first Marxist president, Barack Hussein Obama, paid for by crony capitalists looking for and finding exceptional financial favors for their cronyisms. 

Some  of the most exciting days of my life were those in the autumn of 1989 when the East German Marxist dictatorship was being challenged by gathering crowds of their enslaved masses, demanding  the right  to visit relatives, fellow Germans,  outside their Marxist prison walls.   Would the dictatorship open fire on the unarmed?

There were hints that it wouldn’t.   I was certain that the Soviet Union itself could not survive if its important,  most aggressive police state ally of Eastern Europe,  the “Democratic Peoples Republic of Germany”  would collapse  peacefully.  

The wall was allowed to be breached.    Tears fill my eyes remembering those exciting days and their evenings’ events.

In October 1990 I  travelled  to Rovno in the Ukraine ”Republic” of  the Soviet Union for my second tour, having first visited there in the summer of 1966 when it was still a first class Marxist dictatorship……not the meanest variety, however.   That would have been  during the years of Joseph Stalin terror  from  1925 to his death in 1953.  

After a week in Rovno,  while shaving one morning in Kiev,  staring into a mirror, I heard a series of whistles……then some organized shoutings from the streets  below my hotel room.     More whistles and then the cadence of marching feet and cheering.   I rushed to the streets.   There was no wall to tear down, but Kiev was emerging from its Soviet shell.

I spent over a week  milling around, talking with , listening to brave souls emerging from crowds in the many, many thousands identifying  to the public  their  losses of loved one to the Soviet regimes of police state terror.   Sometimes twenty, sometimes many  more at the same time  would give testimony almost as in chorus,  showing pictures  of the dead and disappeared,  some lone survivors of entire families sent to Siberia.     Most were mothers, one following the other  who  listed the names of  their  brothers, fathers, grandfathers, uncles who disappeare into the Soviet Marxist nights.     During the evenings even in the October rains,  they gathered by the many  thousands, nearly everyone in tears.listening with profound reverence and polite order to the obituaries of the once loved. and long departed..

Countless tanks could be seen in the distance cordoned off from the  masses  of  mourners.   One could see uniformed troops.

They never moved.

A year or two later I spent a few days at  Check Point Charlie in Berlin next to a small building which had been turned into a museum of tragedy of those brave souls who attempted to cross over to Free Berlin during these  harshest of times under Soviet control.   It was a day of tears for every visitor there watching the films, inspecting the devices and tricks used by  those who would chance their  lives and those who lost trying to cross to the other side of the wall fleeing from  the Marxist Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Germany.

Beware of Marxist, dear fellow Americans.   KNOW THINE ENEMIES!

Obama in Performance with Keystone Pipeline: To Hell with the Country. God Must be re-elected!

The Pipeline Sellout

by Charles Krauthammer   at   National Review Online:

“Obama puts politics over nation, again.

In 2008, the slogan was “Yes We Can.” For 2011–12, it’s “We Can’t Wait.” What happened in between? Candidate Obama, the vessel into which myriad dreams were poured, met the reality of governance.

His near–$1 trillion stimulus begat a stagnant economy with 9 percent unemployment. His attempt at Wall Street reform left in place a still too-big-to-fail financial system as vulnerable today as when he came into office. His green-energy fantasies yielded Solyndra cronyism and a cap-and-trade regime not even a Democratic Congress would pass.

And now his signature achievement, Obamacare, is headed to the Supreme Court, where it could very well be struck down, just a week after its central element was overwhelmingly repudiated (2–1) by the good burghers of Ohio.

So what do you do when you say you can, but, it turns out, you can’t? Blame the other guy. Charge the Republicans with making governing impossible. Never mind that you had control of the Congress for two-thirds of your current tenure. It’s all the fault of Republican rejectionism.

Hence: “We Can’t Wait.” We can’t wait while they obstruct. We can’t wait while they dither with my jobs bill. Write Congress today! Vote Democrat tomorrow!

We can’t wait. Except for certain exceptions, such as the 1,700-mile trans-U.S. Keystone XL pipeline, carrying Alberta oil to Texas refineries, which would have created thousands of American jobs and increased our energy independence.

For that, we can wait, it seems. President Obama decreed that any decision must wait 12 to 18 months — postponed, by amazing coincidence, until after next year’s election.

Why? Because the pipeline angered Obama’s environmental constituency. But their complaints are risible. Global warming from the extraction of the Alberta tar sands? Canada will extract the oil anyway. If it doesn’t go to us, it will go to China. Net effect on the climate if we don’t take that oil? Zero.

Danger to a major aquifer, which the pipeline traverses? It is already crisscrossed by 25,000 miles of pipeline, enough to circle the Earth. Moreover, the State Department had subjected Keystone to three years of review — the most exhaustive study of any oil pipeline in U.S. history — and twice concluded in voluminous studies that there would be no significant environmental harm.

So what happened? “The administration,” reported the New York Times, “had in recent days been exploring ways to put off the decision until after the presidential election.” Exploring ways to improve the project? Hardly. Exploring ways to get past the election.

Obama’s decision was meant to appease his environmentalists. It’s already working. The president of the National Wildlife Federation told the Washington Post (online edition, November 10) that thousands of environmentalists who were galvanized to protest the pipeline would now support Obama in 2012. Moreover, a source told the Post, Obama campaign officials had concluded that “they do not pick up one vote from approving this project.”

Sure, the pipeline would have produced thousands of truly shovel-ready jobs. Sure, delay could forfeit to China a supremely important strategic asset — a nearby, highly reliable source of energy. But approval was calculated to be a political loss for the president. Easy choice.

It’s hard to think of a more clear-cut case of putting politics over nation. This from a president whose central campaign theme is that Republicans put party over nation, sacrificing country to crass political ends.

Nor is this the first time Obama’s election calendar trumped the national interest:

Obama’s decision to wind down the Afghan surge in September 2012 is militarily inexplicable. It comes during the fighting season. It was recommended by none of his own military commanders. It is explicable only as a talking point for the final days of his reelection campaign.

At the height of the debt-ceiling debate last July, Obama pledged to veto any agreement that was not long term. Definition of long term? By another amazing coincidence, any deal large enough to get him past Election Day (and thus avoid another such crisis next year).

Tuesday it was revealed that last year the administration pressured Solyndra, as it was failing, to delay its planned October 28 announcement of layoffs until November 3 — the day after the midterm election.

A contemporaneous e-mail from a Solyndra investor noted: “Oddly they didn’t give a reason for that date.” The writer was clearly born yesterday. The American voter was not — and (s)he soon gets to decide who really puts party over nation and reelection above all.

We can’t wait.

— Charles Krauthammer is a nationally syndicated columnist. © 2011 the Washington Post Writers Group.