Who Needs 'Em?

I hope that your Thanksgiving was a good one and that you gave thanks to God for all the many blessings He bestowed this year. Interestingly, President Obama did not give God thanks even once in his official Thanksgiving message to the nation. A pity but understandable.
www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/22/For-Fourth-Straight-Year-Obama-Thanksgiving-Message-God

It also helps explain why he is trotting out once again a proposal to limit the charitable deduction (see blog 2/5/10) - he thinks the government should do it all and charitable organizations are just superfluous. The President's proposal is to limit anyone making over $250,000 to total deductions that do not exceed 28% of their gross income. Of course this has non-profits of all kinds hopping mad. philanthropy.com/article/Nonprofits-Oppose-Obama-Plan/130776/  Many donors who funded Obama's campaign are upset as well. dailycaller.com/2011/09/14/obama-alienates-wealthy-donors-with-plan-to-limit-charitable-tax-deductions/  None of this seems to bother Obama one whit and you have to ask - why? 

The answer I believe lies in the fact that the guy is a True Believer and now that he has won a second term he flat doesn't care who takes issue with him. In the previous go-around Congress made short shrift of the proposal to limit the charitable deduction as they faced reelection and didn't need this albatross around their necks. Hopefully it will do the same thing this time. Obama can be exceptionally stubborn when he thinks he is right and I think this will be a preview of how bi-partisanship will go during his second term, or rather not go. Not going is good for the country in that no new idiotic ideas will come to fruition, but it also means that the nation's enormous problems will march on and D.C. will do bupkis to address them. Well, elections have consequences and I hope that we will still have the option of trying to address them. That, however, remains to be seen.