The Aroma of Illegality
It’s getting stronger, that stench of illegality, and it’s emanating from places high as well as low.
For the last few weeks, Madison, Wisconsin, has been Malodorous Central, as various government employees, from the 14 Fleebagging Democratic state senators to protesting teachers and sundry public union apparatchiks, have endeavored to substitute mob rule for the rule of law. “After the vote on collective bargaining in the Wisconsin Senate,” John Hinderaker reports at Powerline, “armed guards led Republican Senators through a tunnel, out of the Capitol and onto a waiting bus, which reportedly was commandeered for the purpose on an emergency basis. A howling mob of union members threatened the Republicans, shouted obscenities and pounded on the bus.”
Useful data point: the mobs were howling because a majority of their duly elected officials had just passed legislation that they had, while campaigning a few months back, promised to lobby for. No one should have been surprised by Scott Walker’s efforts to get Wisconsin’s finances under control: he just did what he had promised to do if elected. And he was elected. And elections, as President Obama said long, long ago, in what seems like another country, “have consequences.” (The rest of that famous quotation: “at the end of the day, I won.” Imagine if Scott Walker had said that!)
Madison has distinguished itself for thuggishness. But that “get-a-little-bloody” sort of activism (thank you, Congressman Capuano) is only one facet of the illegality that is wafting about the republic. A small fuss was made a week or two ago when President Obama announced that he was directing his Department of Justice to forgo enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act, that somewhat desperate prop to “traditional” marriage (one man, one woman) that Bill Clinton reluctantly signed into law in 1996. Many of Obama’s critics cried foul, claiming that he was abrogating his Constitutional duty to uphold the law. In fact, as Andy McCarthy pointed out at NRO, presidents regularly decline to enforce statutes they believe are unconstitutional. “The problem with what the Obama administration is doing with DOMA,” Andy observed, “is political, not legal.”
Nothing requires a president to defend or enforce a law he truly believes is unconstitutional, or even a law he believes is constitutional but chooses, in his discretion, not to enforce as a matter of policy (see, e.g., Obama on the immigration laws).
Putting the law to the side, it is outrageous for an administration to use its Justice Department’s privileged position as the lawyer for the United States to sabotage a case, and for a president to claim his legal position is evolving when, in fact, he is transparently pandering to a key constituency.
Obama and Eric “My People” Holder may natter on about “equal protection.” That’s just talk, though. What they care about is not the 14th Amendment but their political program. Example: if you are a white voter in Philadelphia, you don’t get equal protection from armed Black Panthers who strut about polling places. And if some nebbish in the Justice Department who hasn’t gotten the message brings a suit against the Panthers, a higher-up (maybe even “My People” Holder himself) can quietly drop the suit when he thinks no one is paying attention. Sniff, sniff: catch that acrid scent? Just wait: when the governor of Arizona decides to enforce the state’s immigration laws, it is the work of a moment for “My People” Holder to file a federal suit seeking to declare the law “invalid.” Now you smell it, don’t you?
It’s not an aroma. It’s an overbearing stench.
The stench stretches all the way back to the disenfranchisement of GM and Chrysler bond holder to pay off his union supporters. It has been constant ever since. We’re beyond smoke and fire analogies, this administration is plainly holding a match to the Constitution right before our very eyes.
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“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
A little more attitude on the part of Congressional Republicans needs to be in evidence.
Looks like a lot more RINOs will have to be primaried.
Its difficult to write about Eric “my people” Holder with out adding an ad hominem attack so I won’t.
Stand up to who, how? I’ve written, I’ve called, I’ve voted I’ll rally. I’m past starting to feel and be voiceless in our hope and change land.
You have to get involved at the local level. That’s where candidate selection begins.
If you consider yourself a Republican, then get involved in your local party. Go to the meetings and have your voice heard. Vote on the leadership.
If you consider yourself more of an Independent, then find out where and when your local Tea Party meets and attend a meeting. See what it’s all about for yourself, don’t take somebody else’s word for it. Get involved. That’s where true grassroots power comes from.
…we stand up for liberty and responsibility…
I’d say the erection (stand up) of the body politic is well underway. Just about stiff enough to do some good.
["There is a stench of sanctimony and law-breaking emanating from Madison, Wisconsin and Washington D.C. that originates with the Obama administration."]
So what’s new? The federal government (congress and the Executive) has long disregarded the 10th Amendment spending 95% of its time intervening into or outright regulating States affairs.
I would only add that there is nothing exclusively new about Obama’s administration doing what all former administrations and congress’ of either party have done for decades.
These constitutional violations will continue so long as the ‘people’ stay fixated on all the diversions of irrelevent superficial symptoms rather than the real underlying causations of [constitutional] abuses.
Nothing? What about that clause in Article 2, Section 3 of the U. S. Constitution that specifies that “he [the president] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” — ? Can anyone explain to me how that part of the president’s responsibilities is nullified by his convictions?
I continue to maintain that the Constitution’s most serious lack is a vigilant and potent enforcer. But that was supposed to be Us the People, wasn’t it?
You are absolutely right. The government is the servant of the Constitution and the Constitution belongs to the people. That means that the President must, on his oath, uphold the Constitution. All of it. Not just those that he personally chooses to accept.
He has no individual right to abrogate this duty, no right to refuse to uphold a law which he, personally, does not like. He and his actions are not above the law, above the Constitution. Obama does not have any ‘discretionary right’ to choose which laws he is sworn to defend.
“Obama does not have any ‘discretionary right’ to choose which laws he is sworn to defend.”
If he did, then his power would be absolute. He could next refuse to uphold the law that prevents unions from acting as barbarian tribes and storming Milwaukee to loot it.
There isn’t anything in between upholding DOMA and martial law.
He is already there; it’s only a matter of whether he thinks he could get the military to follow him instead of the constitution. He already knows that answer to that, but you can bet he is thinking about whether collective bargaining is a way to control the civilian police forces.
There is nothing this guy won’t do. The only limit is what he thinks he can get away with. And he’s delusional to boot.
Interesting comment about the unions. [I agree with all of your points.]
My question is: Given that Obama lives in his own virtual world and has little interest in or ability to deal with real situations and real people – then, what are the Democrats going to do to win the next election? They used Obama’s Performance Tactics to get them into power in 2008. But, his performance was based on: (1) his virtual world of Hope and Change; and (2)he was not Bush. But there are now problems with such a strategy.
Above all, this strategy has no ‘feet-on-the-ground’; it’s totally and completely ‘in the mind’. And the problem is that now, after two years, there is evidence of ‘what Obama is like in real time and real situations. And many people don’t like this. That’s why the Tea Party developed and that’s why the Democrats were trounced in November 2010. Even though the Democrats won’t admit the existence of either.
So- the Democrats can’t campaign on ‘what we have done’ because the majority don’t like it. They have kept out any and all new blood in the party – in contrast to the GOP who are filled with fresh young people and ideas – all of whom are talking and active (Ryan, Cantor, Rubio, West etc)..
Then, there is the situation that Obama, living in his virtual world, has detached himself more and more and more – from dealing in policies, programs, decision-making…and with this lack of leadership – and lack of new blood – the States have moved into the vacuum. They are heavily led by GOP governors and they are taking over much of the decision-making.
So- what is Obama going to use as his campaign material? He’s incapable of dealing with the real world. All he can do is campaign – and only in abstract general future-oriented themes. Hope and Change. And ‘Winning the Future’. These are not enough. He no longer has Bush as ‘the reality to campaign against’. He has nothing. What will the Democrats do?
Your suggestion that he’ll align himself with Unions – hmmm. He has a problem there as well. The Public Service Unions are the key method for the Democrats to launder taxpayer money into their campaign war chests. The Governors are reducing the power of these unions. If Obama sides with them, then he’s shown that he’s against the taxpayers. If he sides with the taxpayers, then, he loses this money-laundering system. What will he and the Democratic gang do?
That’s my puzzled question.
Did you notice that Bubba has been testing the waters for Hillary? Libya and now drilling. Throwing some chum in the water to see how the Make Believe Media will react. So far, the piranah haven’t pounced, which must be encouraging to the devious duo.
As for what little lenin will run on, it has to be the Oz strategy, doesn’t it? He rescued the economy, but it will take a decade at least to undo the damage of bushhitler. His magnificent Cairo speech stirred the ME to throw off the chains; but it will take a lot of sweat and tears by a lot of people not Obama to reach the promised land. The 2 decade strategy to convert to sacred energy is in place…of course there may be some suffering in the meantime. The nations health is secure; lifespans will increase as the oceans recede; in due time the enormous savings will reap dividends we can’t even imagine. How many lives in Iraq and Afthanistan has the world’s smartest man saved or created; we may soon have a website to explain how many.
In other words, he will do what he has done every moment since he learned to talk…he will assert that reality is the lie, because he has put the mechanisms in place by which, in the very near, but not quite specific future, every conceivable problem will evaporate.
He’ll half-ass it to death, then blame it on someone else.
Yes. Self government by representation / representatives.
Representatives of the People with responsibilities / duties accepted UNDER OATH. Which OATH enjoins them to “Uphold and Defend the Constitution of the USA”
Failure to comply with terms of contract voids IN LAW the contract. How is it then the “representatives” remain in their jobs? And retain them in apparent perpetuity. In this Country of Law ?
Would such behaviours be permitted / tolerated in ANY private commercial enterprise. Yet in the major enterprise of WE The People, their government, representatives ignore their contracted responsibility to guard the RIGHTS of the People with apparent impunity ? Yet the share-holders / citizens are
in the main quiescent OR in opposition to one another.
Then explain the purpose / intent of the Federal government of the USA and the State Governments TRI-CAMERAL organisation. Are “Checks and Balances” intent that “Representatives” of the People guard the citizens from ANY OFFICER of ANY Office of government who ignores the LIMITS of lawful powers. By procedural flim flam , arrogation of powers not in his right or appeals to private armies ?
WHERE ARE THE LEGISLATORS AND JUDICIARY — the guardians ? of the Constitution – at the continual and escalating assaults to the US Constitution / the People of the USA, by an Executive CLEARLY overstepping the limited mandate of Executive of the USA.? Quiet and / or absent OR waiting for their chances in 2012. These Servants, these “representatives of the People” of the USA. Shall they keep their jobs?
Why no general, why no universal protest and outrage at these legal officers: Legislators and Judges, ignoring their lawful contracted duties AND the LAW they are bound to uphold
WHY is the TEA PARTY so small ?
The Tea Party is not small at all. Our problem is that most of us who have not reached retirement age are busy scrambling to survive in this ruined economy, while those who have retired do not have the energy they once had.
Our enemies don’t have to work in any real sense of the word.
If I may sum this up, the Constitution requires the president to enforce all US laws, unless, of course, the law in question violates the Constitution, and as such, conflicts with his (Constitutionally-mandated) oath to uphold the Constitution.
Barry and his minions stink and it is getting suffocating. Wanna clear the air? Impeach, prosecute and clean house.
If a Republican president were doing any of those things, not to mention all of them, there would be 80-point banner headlines in the NYT and WaPo, and dozens of TV talking heads screaming for impeachment.
I guess the old “He may be a rat, but he’s our rat” rule is in full effect.
I have never seen any president get away with suing one of the 50 states with so little outrage and condemnation. Or have a president of another country step up to the podium in Congress and get a standing ovation from the former 60% of the Congress. Now we have Rahm as mayor and the Chicago guy that was down in Broward County Florida telling the Florida Supreme Court to give Gore just a few more days, in the White House orchestrating what? The Chicago Way in Wisconsin. Sad for the USA.
Y, if GW Bush did any ONE of these things, the Make Believe Media would have been howling their worthless heads off. But since their anointed ONE is the Nixon imitation, seldom is heard a discouraging word. They have proven their uselessness with an exclamation point.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. — George Orwell
Thanks for writing this article which touches on one aspect of a many-tentacled monster creating waves of destruction. Every agency is pushing against the economic well-being of the average American as the country is being wrenched to the radical left. Not only is the executive branch selectively deciding which laws to enforce, but is ignoring federal courts, as in Louisiana, and writing their own rules of regulation of just about everything in the business world. Since there are so many agencies at the beck and call of the president, who in Congress can keep up? An even worse tentacle is the spending that cannot be viewed as anything but intentional destruction of our economy.
The Washington Examiner’s series on who funds the Democratic Party includes people who publicly have stated they wish to destroy our capitalist system. These are perilous times.
Fascinating how corruption and illegalities end when the party you vote for occupies the white house, yet explode when the other side of the aisle carves up the tax pie, GM bonds, or sends trillions overseas to European families, etc, etc, etc. Hypocrisy at its ugly best.
The nation is on its last legs for many reasons, but the biggest is its citizens were too lazy to demand justice from its leadership, regardless what party they “represented”
Absolutely true! Neither party has been abiding by and keeping their oaths of office. Both parties have passed unconstitutional bill after unconstitutional program. 95% or more of our federal government is illegal. The current RINO’s are trying to cut 61 billion dollars from the bloated budget when they should be cutting 1.6 trillion from the budget. In two years I will be old enough to collect SS. And I will. But I would gladly give it up if the federal government would cancel the program and all it’s agencies. Abolish the illegal programs and agencies – HUD, Dept’s of Energy, transportation, education etc.
“but the biggest is its citizens were too lazy to demand justice from its leadership,….”
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Alex, it’s more basic than that. In the election that Obama won, only 58% of the voters bothered to vote. Of those, 52% voted for Obama. That computes to a mere 30% of eligible voters managing to saddle us with Obama. Laziness of the electorate won the day for Obama.
Could who really understands it give a nutshell explanation of the $105 billion secretly inserted into the healthcare bill and why Congress cannot get rid of it? I don’t get it. Thanks.
Me neither.
We’ve been told a million times that the House controls the purse strings.
Do they, or don’t they? If it’s possible to pass something that forces spending forever, with no recourse, then why bother to vote at all. It’s already a totalitarian country.
Is it because this bill, with that hidden insert, was passed when the Democrats were the majority in the House?
The constitution requires that all bills of spending originate in the house of representatives. If this bill did not originate there then it is illegal. I honestly have lost track of where the bill that got passed originated. Can someone enlighten me please?
STENCH? What do you expect from the ‘Garbage Man in Chief’?
Nobody wants to hear it, but I say all the time that our Cuddly statistmarxists will descenD to Castro/Stalin/Mao tactics with no hesitation whatsoever when they think they can get away with it.
Once you break the law beyond passive resistance, what is the limit? The answer, of course, is there is no limit. Either you think you are above the law or not. If you think you are above the law, it’s already decided what you are. Everything beyond that is unbounded. It just depends on how sadistic the people who sieze control are willing to be.
History is my witness.
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/video/2009/06/10/supreme_court_denies_chrysler_bondholder_appeal.html
That was the moment this should have been turned back. The Supreme Court failed to do it job, and uphold black letter contract law.
Why?
This will backfire on the left. It’s all decline for them now. The have exposed themselves too much. The public doesn’t want what they are selling.
But they don’t have to get the most votes. They just have to get the most in the tally afterward. Evidence: Harry Reid.
The public doesn’t want what they are selling this year. But next year the public’s wishes will surely be different. The public is basically fickle. Meanwhile, the communists are taking advantage.
Makes one wonder what the Civil War was _really_ about.
After all, the victors do write the history books….
A provacative comment. I have thought the same thing myself ever since this administration started stoking the fires of tyranny.
Roger – It’s more than an “aroma.” The Obama administration and their apparatchiks at the state level are depending on the lock-step acquiescence of Big Media to keep the public’s attention diverted from the issues that you describe. [My personal favorite is the fact that on every major news outlet (except Fox) the foaming-at-the-mouth insanity we just saw in Madison was blandly described as "activism."]
Not to strain the metaphor, but the MSM is playing the role of “air freshener” to mask the olufactory assault emanating from Washington and points west. As is always the case the combined scent of both smells is sickening.
Speaking of stench, Michael “this is war” Moore immediately springs to mind.
Not only do the bunch in the White STINK; not only are they corrupt and corrupting; they are incompetent when it come to the real business of governing the country and facing a hostile world.
“…a majority of their duly elected officials had just passed legislation that they had, while campaigning a few months back, promised to lobby for. No one should have been surprised by Scott Walker’s efforts to get Wisconsin’s finances under control: he just did what he had promised to do if elected.”
Ah, yes, typical PJM dishonest misrepresentation.
No, Republicans did not run on abolishing the right to collective bargaining: they ran on reducing benefits. The unions agreed to reductions, so taking the fiscal question off the table, and letting Walker follow through on his “efforts to get Wisconsin’s finances under control.”
He did not promise to do away with collective bargaining.
As I’ve commented before, it’s this kind of outright dishonesty at PJM that drove co-founder Charles Johnson to distance himself from his creation. Sad that there aren’t more conservatives of principal like Johnson.
Heh. If there is any cosmic justice, you will spontaneously combust for using the words conservative, principled and Charles Johnson in the same sentence.
On the matter of ending collective bargaining, collective extortion would be a more appropriate description. Government/public sector unions are a racket and arguably a criminal enterprise. Taxpayers – Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal – collectively pay the salaries of government workers. Part of those salaries are then siphoned off – by government – as dues to the unions. The unions then take those dues and use them to buy Democrat politicians to give them anything they want – generating more salaries and dues. It’s the perfect racket – a self licking ice cream cone…an endless supply of money supplied largely by your opponents, against their will and without their say. And on the rare occasion they do express their say – as in the November elections – those same Democrat politicians can just refuse to play the game anymore and leave the state. Pretty brilliant strategy if you care nothing for rules or civil governance. Government unions need to be taken down with a wrecking ball.
It is the stink of the Constitution being set aflame. Obama is an OUTLAW. He has the sensibilities and the impulses of a third world banana republic caudillo. No wonder he yearns to lead authoritarian/totalitarian China. That is his metier. Everything, people and laws are in service to his power lust. His disdain for limitation and restraint of power is terrifying and if he is re-elected in 2012 he will be unleashed. And impossible to control.
Scythe:
Your comment deserves an award, in my judgment, for accuracy and brevity.
el presidente is getting bolder and bolder with his disregard for the U.S. Constitution and the American people. by vote time we could be in a real fix, as in rigged voting. his handlers have one last shot to seize total control of our country. thanks to the new lack of balance created by allowing the potus to write law, spend $$, and appoint czars, they can rule by having total control of two of the three branches. they have lost control of congress, thanks to the Tea Party. they will do whatever is required to hold onto the top office, and then it only takes one less conservative s.c. justice, and bingo, Republic gone. we are still just a breath away from losing our country.
John Q: The real story is that you lost and you thought you had all the bases covered. You thought you were going to win the election last November…Whoops. You thought when the 14 cowards called democrat state senators ran away from their responsibility that they were remarkably clever. Who can beat that tactical genius?? Then, Governor Walker showed remarkable integrity and tenacity. Just as Osama bin Laden considered the
U.S. weak an unprincipled, you thought the Republicans were weak and unable to stand fast. Yet, stand fast they did. And similar to your side’s reaction after you thought you had covered all the bases with Pres. Bush in 2000, in spite of all your efforts you lost. The election process is just fine as long as your side can game it and buy it off. THose days are numbered. They arent done yet because you have the president of the United States supporting your cause. but we are on to you. Your days are numbered. Governor Walker and those like him will begin to hold fast. Then we can claimm, “WE WON”. And you will have lost. That is your REAL problem.
I could be well moved, if I were as you:
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
The skies are painted with unnumber’d sparks,
They are all fire and every one doth shine,
But there’s but one in all doth hold his place:
So in the world; ’tis furnish’d well with men,
And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;
Yet in the number I do know but one
That unassailable holds on his rank,
Unshaked of motion: and that I am he,
Let me a little show it, even in this;
That I was constant Cimber should be banish’d,
And constant do remain to keep him so.
(Julius Caesar: Act III, scene 1)
These are the lines recited by a narcissistic and megalomaniacal leader, Julius Caesar, spoken in Shakespeare’s play just before Caesar was “deposed”.
Nobody seems more constant or fixed in his resolve to subvert our republic than Obama, he being more than mere flesh and blood. Let us hope and pray he is not deified by assassination, but rather deposed and humiliated by the 2012 election of a responsible and effective adult Republican. I wonder if Wisconsin Governor Walker will be available?
When you have to do what you feel is wrong in order to succeed your whole ethical system can be challenged and warped. Society as a whole does not look well upon the Machiavellian(1) belief of ends justifying means.
I look at these people, the democratic/Liberal/Progressive ‘base’ and their behavior is terrifying on many levels. They scream, shout, threaten ‘blood on the streets’, do they really embrace democracy or terror?
The ‘true’ character; terrorizers, violent, destructive, rabid, haters, hypocrites of the Democratic/Liberal/Progressive Party has been put on display for the world to see. I would be horrified to call myself a Democrat/Liberal/Progressive these days!
Even more frightening – Obama is actually “Condoning” their behavior.
What Country do I live in again?
Democrats and the media still brand Republicans as the party of the rich, and Republicans seem to believe it’s true. It’s not.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/democrats-party-rich#ixzz1GdAFop5J
ALSO:
Enormous contributions, yes — to the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign. Unions, most of whose members are public employees, gave Democrats some $400 million in the 2008 election cycle. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the biggest public employee union, gave Democrats $90 million in the 2010 cycle.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/02/public-unions-force-taxpayers-fund-democrats#ixzz1GdBPAB76
Obama does it simply as a demonstration that he can … while cowards in our Congress look down at their feet.
Rome began as a republic, grew and expanded its influence only to devolve into a “God” cult following tyranny ending with Rome in flames and Nero playing his fiddle proclaiming all is well. We as a nation have yet to reach that stratus of complete devolvement but we were on our way. The turn-around has begun, with the “Flip” of legislations and Govenorships across the country is boiling up with change that is so near impossible to accomplish at the National level. Our modern day “Nero” would be content to proclaim all is well while the nation is consumed in flames of debt, moral decay and anarchy.
Mr. Obama is not our President, he is an Instrument of Tyranny
Well, the whole culture approaches lawlessness. It’s happened before in the US, take Bloody Kansas as the prime example. Or the Duluth Lynchings, and related events nationwide, of the post WW-I/KKK era. Yet every time of such dispersive lawlessness is different. By some measures this is the worst — the so-called President is the most lawless of all, and heads a criminal mob of an administration taking over huge whole businesses and extracted fealty pledges from others.
Yet we have folks, even a majority coming to stand against such lawlessness. We have heros like Sarah Palin, Governor Walker and the Wisconsin GOP legislators challenging full-on the thug mob of public sector unions, Governor Brewer and the Arizona legislators challenging the Obama mob on immigration and border issues, the Governors and Attorneys-General of half the states challenging Obama-Care.
What we are missing is stalwart heroes among the Judicial class. Why do those who know better not stand to support justice, lawfulness and the Constitution rather than stare-decisis-driven proceduralism and politically correct go-alongism?
One the astounding things that isn’t even being reported about the Wisconsin situation is the latest set of shenanigans being conducted by the AFSCME/SEIU/OFA/MOVEON cabal.
They have gotten the donor lists for every person and business and are using them to target businesses and people not only for boycotts and protests but also for acts of vandalism and even violence. Apparently there are even police involved in delivering “messages” to various people and businesses especially in Madison.
Demands are being delivered (along with property destruction and threats of harm) to businesses to denounce the Republicans and support recall campaigns to do penance for their previous “sins”.
They are being told to publicly support the unions and to even “deal” with employees who have supported Governor Walker and the Republicans and a company can be targeted for merely having a couple of employees who donated.
The sort of stuff that was bread-and-butter for the Nazi’s and Stalin’s thugs are more and more common here in the Dairy State. Someone needs to bring national attention to this. Our local talk radio hosts are trying but so far the story is NOT being picked up.
“….More subtle, yet in the end no less odoriferous, are widespread efforts by the Obama administration to rule by executive fiat….”
I very much enjoy Mr Kimball’s insightful posts here at PJ Media as well as his panel discussions on various subjects on C-Span. But I really think he underestimates the way information travels in our evolving media landscape, and how that serves to neutralize the way liberal bias (even as it still exists) helped Obama get first elected – and could likewise aid his re-election.
While I agree whole heartedly that Obama has brought his Chicagoland thugishness to the White House – most Americans unfortunately don’t seem to see it that way. That Kathleen Sibelius or Janet Napalitano have more billions at their disposal than Hugo Chavez to play dictator is more information than the average voter cares to digest.
In my view it helps explain why almost 2/3d’s of voters reject almost all of obama’s policies yet he manages to bob and weave around 50% when it comes to his personal favorability. (Plus factoring the ‘magic negro’ affirmative action first – which I believe – translates thus; some people will never criticize the first black president to a pollster – either face to face or over the phone)
Still, look at the dismal track record this administration has when trying to go underground with said ‘executive fiat’…
#1 – trying to con Judd Gregg into joining the cabinate – only to find out the White House inteneded to politize the upcomming Census – and use him and the Dept of Commerce to do it. That Census info is the holy grail for classic progressive big government – almost as important as being able to finess budgetary numbers. Just as Sec Jackson at EPA abuses the legislative process in the name of public safty (or is trying to) the Census provides the demographic basis for every facet of governmental servicing – be it housing or health care right down to OCEA in the workplace.
The bumblestumb idiots in Obama’s transition & staff did such a lousy job of trying to pull this off that Gregg blew it up almost immediately. He bolted and the effort failed.
#2 – ACORN – the O’Keef revelation somewhat dovetails with #1 above – since a lot of blogging scrutiny resulted from the effort to control the census bled into reporting on how ACORN was a crucial link in Obama’s effective ground campaign – starting with beating Hillary and then McCain. It’s hurt to admit it but team Obama concieved then executed a brilliant campaign. Besides Obama forgoing the public campaign monies in lue of nearly a billion to run with raised privately, and THE UNIONS (both money wise and volunteer wise) – those ACORN volunteers were Obama’s bridge to the young – who not only knocked on doors but also voted in larger numbers – a demographic that was forever rumored to be a plus for Dems but who up until Obama never materialized. These were vital to turning Red states Blue – like Indiania, VA, NC, Fla & Ohio.
While the remnants of ACORN still remain and struggle to re-establish themselves – IT’S BEEN EXPOSED FOR WHAT IT IS AND HAS BEEN – corrupt government and aspiring voter fraud – and it’s demise was keenly felt and sorely missed by this White House in the brusing battles over Health Care and the Budget. Again – a major failure.
#3 Card Check.
While there are still some diehards who insist the current Wisconsin fight will reawaken the class warfare chit for Dems – and the Obama narrative that the ‘attack’ on public unions equals an ‘attack on the middle class’ – there is zero evidence thusfar. To the contrary – Obama’s bias and love for all things union has been transparently exposed for what it always has been – just another in a long line of pay to play instincts brought with him from Hyde Park since day one.
Once viewed by the left as the second comming of the Wagner Act, it was supposed to ressurect private sector unionism. Again it’s an epic fail. Despite all the focus on demonizing governor Walker in Wisconsin – people see right through it. What minscule unions do exist in the private sector are already beginning to splinter given the tatics used in Wisconsin. (They are tax payers too)
By the time 2012 starts in earnest Obama will have no where to hide when conservatives use the Wisconsin example to highlight why Illinois is #3 (behind only Cali & NY) for the state most bankrupt by these corrupt public unions and their parasitical piracy of public coffers. That Obama’s ‘stand’ with the unions today is no different from the porkulous bill and his ‘stand’ when turning GM into Government Motors – that like Hollywood and Academia – Unions are a vital constituentcy for the Democrat Party – pure and simple.
#4 – Sec Jackson and the EPA
Not a lot of people are watching her get her ears batted in congressional hearings, but the legendary Jackson charm offensive that was proported to have been so effective with the Senate – has evaporated in the House. House members from coal country have been feasting whole hog – and shes been as subdued as a church titmouse with a mangled neck – no cheese in sight.
Add to that the once famous governers climate intiative led by Arnold of California now in the trash bin of fiscal restraint – plus the problems in the middle east running the cost of oil up out the roof – and it’s all a very toxic environment to sell of all things why the EPA should lead the world when it comes to combating global warming.
Again – epic fail. And it’s an epic fail in plain sight. Not just on the blogs or sites like PJ Media. While few view CPAN – People are reminded every day their gas bill goes up – and their electric – and the continued unemployment.
NO, while we may not have the Iranian Hostage crises in this 2nd term of Jimmy Carter, or Reagan on the horizon to run, there is plenty to remind voters of Obama’s hand in the current misery index.
It is up to the republican party to NOT FAIL likewise – like they did in ’94 when they ran Dole. They need to run a ticket that can expose this clown for what he is.
We have GOT to do something about that 105 billion trick.
What about calls/letters to Justice Roberts? ANy other ideas ?
Can we start screaming on the phones again ?Faxing, etc. maybe ANOTHER MASSIVE RALLY……I don’t know ! Support 10th Ammendment center….encourage Ryan or Rubio to run, gotta get a CHANGE and quick…
This trick cannot stand !!!Add to the other 1000 things to yell about…….
This whole situation is intolerable !!
We CANNOT stand another 4 years of it !!!!
I watched some of the EPA administrator’s fending off of Reps’ questions yesterday on TV and wanted to throw up. In one instance, she said the Corps of Engineers had done things she had to correct and tnen turn down an approved application (which probably had been ruminating in the bureaucracy for years). The EPA, she indicated, has science on its side while the others don’t. What arrogance. The executive agencies, as exemplified by EPA, are running wild, thumbing their noses at Congress and getting away with it. We citizens don’t hava a clue about their dominance. We’re in big trouble.
It is repulsive to see Union head Trumka beating the drums, for the right to rule by intimidation. The union pays its goons to travel and harass any person or politician who is against the buying of elections and impossible benefits. It is obvious, that the unions are collecting the dues Obama owes for getting him elected, and they will do everything in their power,to do it again. The actions of union members in Wisconsin, speaks volumes about how the union and the democratic Wisconsin senators acted in tandem to upset a legal process. They didn’t like the game so they used every tactic in the book, to avoid the vote on a bill, that curtailed their power. They had no such problem when the US democrats passed the health care bill, despite the overwhelming cry of US citizens who did not want it. Without Union dues, Trumka and his organization, could no longer control US elections. It is time for them to butt out and let the American citizen vote in a person who owes the unions nothing.It will be a hard search but we do have some good men that would fit the bill. US Rep. Alan West of Florida and Florida Senator, Marco Rubio come to mind, and would be stellar candidates. The unions were necessary at one time but they have overplayed their demanding powers.
While everyone is being distracted by the budget and Japan, Obama is well on his way to ordering gun control via executive order.
I sincerely believe DOMA was a test to see what he could get by with, before someone put a stop to his ability to be dictator in chief. Since he has been able to pull this off, the door is wide open.
This is not being reported by the media and is of immediate concern to all who value the 2nd ammendment.
Please check into this and blow it wide open for all to see, before it is too late to stop him. Once gun control is in his hands, he will be unstoppable.
Michelle Malkin’s book ‘Culture of Corruption’ pretty much says it all.
The republic will survive. Zero will pass