Going over the Fiscal Cliff will result in sequestration, yet the devastation resulting from sequestration is being covered up by the left of center liberal media establishment.  Please view the video in the below listed link as Admiral James Lyons, Jr. USNA ’52 USN (Ret), former Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Fleet, explains what sequestration will mean to the US Navy; it will result in having less ships in the entire US Fleet that the US Navy had before World War I------and less US Navy ships than Admiral Lyons had in the US Pacific Fleet, when it was under his command.   Sequestration will not only unilaterally decrease the capability of the US Navy; it will also unilaterally decrease the capability of each of the other service branches.  The American people should ask themselves why the Commander-in-Chief is unilaterally decreasing the capabilities of the US Armed Forces in face of the serious increasing threats facing the nation from China, Russia, Iran, and Islamic Terrorists. 

Not one Republican was elected to Congress on November 6th to raise taxes---the voters were very clear “No tax increases. Period; not one Republican was elected on a platform promising that “I will raise taxes in order to help Obama morph America into Greece.”  Unfortunately the Republican leadership in Congress keeps negotiating to increase “revenues”—when there is no such thing as revenues—it’s TAXES; the American people understand it is TAXES.  The voters who elected the Republicans to Congress are watching, while they break their solemn pledge not to raise taxes.  The Republican leadership in Congress seem to be rubbing the voter’s noses in it, by ignoring the voter’s wishes, when they agreed to support “tax” increases on the American people; the American people are already paying the highest taxes in the 237 year history of the Republic.

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in Congress still does not seem to get what Obama is doing----Obama has not been negotiating “at all”; he is trying to get the GOP to commit suicide by creating a split within the GOP, hoping to ignite an internal struggle.  The Republican leadership has been going along with Obama and is handing Obama the samurai sword to disembowel the Republican Party.   Instead of showing the fear that the Republican leadership has been displaying in TV press conferences, and instead of reacting to one Obama attack after another, the Republican leadership should be counter-attacking.  They should focus on Obama going back on his “campaign promise to cut spending”, and focus on the fact that Obama intends to raise $1.6 trillion in taxes on the American people, even though his flawed Obama Health Care Bill will also impose 20 new taxes on ALL Americans in January 2013.  The Republicans in Congress has a mandate—they should act like it-------they should exercise it------they have great deal of ammunition-------they should go on the offense—an offense is the best defense.