Last week was quite a week.  There was plenty to report on and comment on.  Whether it was the continued judicial tyranny of North Carolina Judge Ned Mangum, a potential new law in Tennessee to punish teens for texting while driving, the Teleprompter-in-Chief or the AIG bonus tax, Conservatives had reason to scream.

Feel free to check out my take on each of them, and others, over at Ideally Conservative.

So, what could be the worst thing that could happen if Obama were to win on Nov. 4?  Would it really mean the end of our nation?  Our world?  Would any of us really feel a difference?

I'd like to make a few predictions as to what to expect should the Obamessiah win.

First, socialism would finally finish off capitalism.  Obama, with the help of Pelosi and Reid, would begin an immediate shift in policy.  They would pass tax increases, which might eventually reach all the way down to those earning $40,000 to $50,000 (for starters).  While they would begin by taxing the "rich", to pay for the giveaways they desire, that would be a very fluid definition.  Things such as expanded higher education funding, nationalized healthcare and expanded tax credits for the poor would not stop at the very top.  As taxes go up, revenue goes down.  That's common economics.  Would they decide they couldn't afford everything they want to do?  No, they would just increase taxes on the way down until they can get what they want.  That is larger government and larger government control.  The by product will be to drive small businesses out of business and drive larger businesses out of the country.

Second, they will institute a national healthcare system that will eliminate the current model of private insurance companies.  They will regulate the costs and payments.  This will drive more and more doctors and nurses out of the field, as they will no longer be able to afford to pay their loans and it will no longer be desirable to be a doctor.  It just won't make sense.  Companies will end their offering of insurance, pushing employees to the federal policy.  To afford healthcare, just as in places like Canada and England, the government will have to make determinations on who should be eligible for care, using the "quality of life" criteria.  That means many won't get care because they just can't justify the cost for their lives.

Third, Obama, Pelosi and Reid will try to codify abortion into the Constitution.  They realize that at this point it is on shaky ground, at best.  There is no "right" to abortion in the Constitution and it would only take a plurality of Justices to overturn it, especially if the people will it.  They will also fight to overturn the ban on partial-birth abortions and to remove protections for the just born who might require a little help to make it.  They would use their national healthcare and the "quality of life" argument to end the lives of thousands of pre-mature or failed abortion babies.  Their assult on the unborn would escalate.  Eugenics would make a strong comeback.  Also, expect to pay for embryonic stem cell research, even though it has never produced any medical advances, as adult stem cell research has.

Fourth, hate crime laws would become stronger and stronger, making the Bible a book of "hate speech."  You need only look at your local college campus to see what hate speech codes bring about.  You can look at Canada, where pastors are sued and convicted of hate speech if they choose to preach from certain passages.  The First Amendment will take it's most brutal assault since McCain-Feingold.  It will erode until we don't recognize it at all.

Fifth, over time, Obama will appoint judges who will ensure that "gay marriage" becomes the next "right" found in the Constitution.  Even states who have passed amendments to their constitutions will find those laws ruled unconstitutional.  States will be forced to accept these unions, paying for healthcare and granting tax breaks to those their people do no desire to do so to.  Minister's who refuse to "marry" such couples will be brought to task under the previously mentioned hate crime laws.

Sixth, gun control laws will be stricter and stricter.  The appointment of activist judges will make this easier over time.  As time goes on, our Second Amendment rights will go the way of our First Amendment rights.  The Bill of Rights will become less and less relevant.  You could expect mini Waco's in your neighborhood.  It might even be your home, next.

Seventh, expect terrorist activity worldwide to explode.  With the appeasement attitudes that Obama holds, terrorists will be emboldened.  They will attack innocent people the world over.  They will attack our interests and those of our allies.  They will use that same attitude to force "tolerance" within our own country, aided by the hate speech laws, to force people here to accept their activity and laws.  In countries around the world, Muslim communities are being allowed to enact Sharia laws and override local courts where they contradict.  As they expand their communities, so will their influence.

Eighth, expect more and more energy policies to be "green" friendly.  Taxes on petroleum, coal and other forms of "dirty" energy to be used to extinguish them.  We will pay more at the pump and more on our utilities as they are taxed more to "punish" us for not being green.  The farce that is global warming will become the only accepted science, just like Darwinism is the only science allowed in the classroom.  Anyone who questions global warming will be labeled a quack and removed from the public square.  We will be forced to pay for research and technology which support this bad science.

Finally, expect our sovereignty to be sold out to the U.N.  Our role on the global scene will gradually fade and we will not be a major player.  We will see the U.N. garner a larger role and we will be forced to agree, fund and implement whatever they desire.  We will shrink on the world stage until we are no longer relevant.  With our economy shrinking due to overburdening taxation, it won't bother the rest of the world.  Those who have hated us for our freedoms and prosperity will gladly write our eulogy and will be glad to ridicule us and claim that they "American Experiment" did not work.

So, how dangerous will it be to elect Obama?  Not so bad; if you hate America, that is.

***This article has been reposted at Ideally Conservative , a new blog by JayPeriod.***

According to FoxNews, VP candidate Joe Biden says he and Sen. Obama (D-USSA) want to "take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people.”  He says this is the true measure of patriotism for the rich.  So, according to the wealthy Democrats, the only way to be patriotic is to give large amounts of money to the government in taxes.  How long, then, before they increase all of our patriotism?

We have wondered for some time what the definition of patriotism is for the Left.  We know they don't define it as belief that your country is superior to others.  We know they don't believe in the mission of your country.  We know they don't believe it means a belief in the people of the country.  It seems they believe it means working for the betterment and growth of the government.  You know, kind of how Lenin and Stalin defined it.

The unfortunate thing is that people who will vote for them will buy into this class warfare and feel a sense of "fairness" in what they say.  Robin Hood lives on.  What they won't see is that the idea of wealth will move downward as time goes on.  As taxes reduce the wealth of the upper class, the qualifier for upper class moves downward.  As that happens, more and more people are moved into the class of wealthy so they can be taxed to care for the poor.

Before we know it, we are all both poor and wealthy.  As wealthy, we are deserving of higher and higher tax rates.  As poor, we will rely on the government for more and more of our daily needs.  Soon, the government will own it all and the only class left is poor.  That's where we'll all fit.

But, at least we'll be considered patriotic in the process!

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-al Qaida) and Sen. Harry Reid (D-Hamas) are just great at getting in front of cameras and reporters and pining about the rising gas prices.  They can show empathy and state that something needs to be done.  Even Hillary (D-Hezbollah) is showing that she's on our side by demanding a gas tax holiday with the evil gas companies paying for it.  But I see through their thinly veiled eco-terrorist friendly masks.

I've read several reports over the last few days about people with SUVs struggling to deal with the higher gas prices.  The resale of these vehicles is far below the average for used cars and many are having trouble unloading them.  No one seems to want something that gets less than 20 mpg.  My motorcycle and I can understand that.

This led me to think about what has been happening for the last few years on the SUV front.  Terror groups like PETA and Sierra Club have been complaining about the evils of SUVs, telling us that no one needs one.  Eco-minded Hollywood stars parrot those statements just before climbing into the back of their SUV limo.  They've decided that no one should be able to choose one of them, they should be removed from manufacturers fleets and have convinced their puppets in Congress to add gas guzzler taxes and force car companies to up their fleet mileage.

Keeping this in mind, sales continued to rise, so Democrats must have determined that the only deterrent would be higher gas prices.  So, for the last 16 years, they've done all they can to force gas prices up.  They've blocked intelligent, logical drilling in ANWR and other places in our sphere of control.  They've put up roadblock after roadblock to new refineries.  They've done everything they can to make sure gas prices continue to rise.  All the while, though, they've shed crocodile tears, telling us that the Right has been in the pocket of oil companies, wanting them to profit more and more.

Their not done, either.  As Hillary has stated, she wants to cut us 18 cents worth of slack and make oil companies pay with much higher windfall taxes.  I'm sure she knows that oil companies will not simply pay the tax, but will pass that along to us, as well as cutting production.  She's just trying to drive gas towards $8 per gallon, just like her friends in Europe, so we'll have to stop driving anything that remotely looks like a useful SUV.

There really is only one way to cut gas prices.  We must put more product on the market.  We must build more, many more, refineries that can refine the oil at a much higher rate.  We must also flood the market with more, much more oil.  If we were to drill in ANWR and flood the market with cheaper oil, the terrorist supporting nations would be forced to cut their prices.  The Left doesn't want that, though.  It doesn't fit their agenda.

So, as they cry about how the average person is struggling to pay for gas, food and energy bills, behind our backs, they are contemplating what they can do drive those prices even higher.  They are determined to fulfill the wishes of their eco-terrorist supporters, no matter how many people they hurt, or how dangerous they make the world.

Gas prices are soaring, putting a pinch on family budgets.  Most Americans are spending about one quarter of their income on credit card interest, meaning there is less money to put into the economy.  Then, we have the wonderful Democrats and their brilliant tax policies.

In their rejection of the a renewal on the Bush tax cuts, Democrats have stated that they want to increase the taxes paid by the rich.  Who would those rich be?  According to their own words, anyone making $32,000 a year is rich.  $32,000.  Rich.

I've often wondered how people can believe that the likes of Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and others in the Democrat elite are the protectors of the poor.  These people wouldn't know poor if it slapped them in the face.  They have surely never been around many poor people for any length of time, especially if they consider an annual income of $32,000 to be rich.  Do they understand that it's many of these "rich" people who are among those facing mortgage foreclosure?

The fact that many of these Democrat Fat Cats inherited their fortunes, therefore exempting them from taxes, does not stop them from the idea of taxing the rest of us into absolute poverty.  They'll still have their fortunes, right?  Yet, they continue to come up with more and more taxes, trying to put us all in the poor house, which they'll then develop programs to care for us, making us utterly reliant on the government for our every necessity.

Now, on top of calling anyone making $32,000 rich, they think we should pay for programs to cut global warming with a gas tax.  Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich) is calling for a 50 cent tax on each gallon of gas to pay for programs to combat global warming.  Never mind that every day more and more evidence comes out that proves global warming is a hoax, we should accept another tax on gas to pay for it.

There is no way these people are actually concerned over the poor or global warming.  There would be nothing stopping them from donating the money they want to fund their projects.  Rep. Dingell could donate all he wants to fight global warming.  Ted Kennedy could use his family's fortune to provide health care for several thousand poor, if he was really interested in that.  That's not what they are worried about, though.

Again, it's not about caring for the poor or reducing the number of poor.  These guys get their power rush from there being so many poor.  The need there to be poor people.  No, it's about making as many people dependent on the government as possible.  In other words, it's about making as many poor as they possibly can.

We must stop this insane plan.  We cannot allow them to destroy America.  For that will surely be the outcome.

Yesterday, the Democrats in Congress had an opportunity to show us how committed they are to helping the economy and putting money back in our pockets.  Instead, all they managed to show was just how money hungry and insensitive they are.  Three specific items caught my attention.

First, the Senate had a chance to make the Bush tax cuts permanent.  These included the Inheritance Tax, also known as the Death Tax.  This tax punishes your heirs after you are dead for your hard work and thrift.  There were other tax cuts that were not renewed as well.

The Democrats claimed that they wanted these cuts to expire and be gone because they are for the wealthy.  They prefer cutting taxes on the poor.  While I agree that we should not tax the poor, we shouldn't tax anyone for that matter, raising taxes on the wealthy doesn't make much sense either.  How many jobs can a poor factory worker produce?  How many jobs can a poor salesman produce?  In fact, it is the wealthy business owner who creates jobs.  He can only do this, though, if he has the money and incentive.  Only a socialist mindset sees redistribution of wealth as the right answer.  And, for the record, redistribution of wealth does not mean more rich or middle class people, it means everyone is poor.

Second, was a measure put up by Sen. McCain.  It would have put a temporary stop to all earmarks.  Earmarks are special projects that Congressmen add to spending bills that generally benefit only their constituents.  Frankly, they have no place in a federal budget.  They cost taxpayers billions every year and range from Woodstock Museums to bridges to nowhere to parks to special research.  If these projects had any merit for public funding, it should come from the communities that they benefit.

Despite the screams of recession from the left and cries about the deficit, the Democrats in Washington were unwilling to cut these pet projects from federal budgets this year.  This proves only that the Left has no desire to cut spending, bring the deficit under control or make wise decisions regarding our money.  They are addicted to our money and the power it allows them to wield.

Finally, Republican Senator Wayne Allard of Colorado had an interesting amendment to add to a bill yesterday.  The amendment would completely fund every campaign promise that Sen. Obama has put forward in the current Presidential race.  It would fund his universal health care, his increases in military spending and his tax cuts on seniors among other things.  The cost?  Try $1.4 trillion dollars!  Now, where do you think Sen. Obama plans to get the money to cover this increase in federal spending?

While this amendment is sure to fail, a couple of things will be interesting.  First, will it garner much national attention to the flippant promises of the Senator from Illinois?  Second, will Sen. Obama vote for it himself?  I suspect the MSM will cover it over so we never hear about it and I imagine the Senator will treat this like other important pieces of legislation and not be present to vote.

These three items bring a very important point to light.  Democrats do not understand that the tax money is our money.  Their attitude is that it's their money to spend as they please.  When we lose sight of whose money it is, we lose control.  It's time we take back control of our money.