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The Obama Watch
Bullying From the Pulpit
Obama’s final demagogic push.
“It would be good if Obama could be a dictator for a few years,” said the director Woody Allen in 2010, as he dismissed Tea Party Republicans as obstructionists. The left holds this view even more fervently today. Speaking to the National Council of La Raza earlier this week, President Obama allowed himself a musing on dictatorship’s appeal that met with great approval from the audience.
“Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own. And believe me, right now, dealing with Congress… the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you. Not just on immigration reform. But that’s not how — that’s not how our system works,” he said, to which members of the La Raza audience responded with a chant of “Yes, you can!” and a cry of “Change it.”
So, liberals dream about dictatorial powers for Obama. Yet this week they profess a deep regard for the virtues of “bipartisanship” and see themselves as unimpeachable arbiters of a “balanced” approach to the debt crisis. Nothing bothers them more than the “intransigence” of Tea Party Republicans, who perversely refuse to step aside and let Obama act like a debt-oblivious Third World dictator.
For his part, Obama laments the lack of civility and concord between members of the legislative and executive branch. He has even ordered Congressional leaders to appear before him at the White House in order to hear his thoughts on this subject.
It tears him up that “compromise” has become a “dirty word” in Washington, as he put it in his Prime Time speech on Monday. Apparently, what would make this decaying city great again is if its politicians abandoned principle more frequently than they already do.
Presidents usually extol America for its commitment to principle, but Obama this week has taken to touting its lack of any.
“America, after all, has always been a grand experiment in compromise. As a democracy made up of every race and religion, where every belief and point view is welcomed, we have put to the test time and again the proposition at the heart of our founding: that out of many, we are one,” he said in Monday’s speech. “We’ve engaged in fierce and passionate debates about the issues of the day, but from slavery to war, from civil liberties to questions of economic justice, we have tried to live by the words that Jefferson once wrote: ‘Every man cannot have his way in all things — without this mutual disposition, we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.’”
Obama declared that compromisers are the great Americans “we remember” but the doggedly “ideological” we forget. At a different time and before a different audience, he would say the opposite (one can’t imagine the above paragraph appearing in a speech before the NAACP), but in his final demagogic push to lift the debt ceiling he feels the need to fake up some admiration for philosophical flexibility. And so thoughts on compromise from a slave owner are suddenly worthy of his citation, as are the words of Ronald Reagan, who has gone from a “rigid ideologue” in the left’s estimation to a venerable source of wit and wisdom.
Conveniently forgotten for the moment is Reagan’s calls for whole departments of the federal government to be abolished. Or that Jimmy Carter, anticipating the politics of today, accused Reagan of insufficient enthusiasm for Medicare, prompting Reagan’s “there you go again” line.
What does Obama mean by compromise? He means that Tea Party Republicans take equal responsibility for a crisis they didn’t create and swallow a non-solution they didn’t negotiate. It is telling that he considers spending cuts a wrenching “compromise” on his part, as if accepting a tiny dent in debt accumulation entitles him to special accolades. By in effect saying that balanced budgets go against his principles, he exposes the essential emptiness of those principles from which he claims to be so heroically departing for the good of a deal.
Why, some of his supporters say, do we even have a debt ceiling? Elizabeth Drew of the New York Review of Books faults Obama for merely considering spending cuts. Now is the time for more government spending, she insists. The left longs for the day when an enlightened liberal president can run up debt and issue new taxes by fiat. In the meantime, Obama betrays the put-upon air of a deposed dictator reduced to haggling with Tea Partiers he views as stubborn and expendable peasants.
About the Author
George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.
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The Bishop| 7.28.11 @ 6:22AM
While the country continues its epic "buyer's remorse" the establishment Repubs continue to bumble and weasle to nowhere. Again, the Repubs will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I'm just sayin'...
Dai Alanye | 7.28.11 @ 1:45PM
Way to show that optimistic spirit, fella.
Brian Mc| 7.28.11 @ 6:28AM
Your description of the La Raza speech did not do it justice. The response from the crowd chilled me to the marrow. It was thunderous and terrifying in its intensity. I am now certain that we are too late.
DaveS| 7.28.11 @ 7:44AM
The preener-in-chief could have said to the illegals present: we don't do that in the USA.
It has been, is, and will continue to be all about him.
Stormzeye| 7.28.11 @ 9:40AM
I had the same reaction and could only think of Hugo Chavez. God save us.
Anthony| 7.28.11 @ 11:57AM
I continually harken back to the comments of that Hollywood moron supreme, Tim Robbins, who, when Bush was President, saw some dictatorial motive in Bush which caused Robbins to speak of "a chill wind" in America. Gee, and all I heard was mushy "compassionate conservativism" coming from Bush's mouth.
Obozo speaks openly and quite wistfully of distatorship, so where are you now Tim? Are you not feeling the chill wind, or is your lefty head so far up Obozo's, and your wife's,( another leftist troll, Susan Sarandon) butt?
Come 2012; By any means necessary!!!
Skippy| 7.29.11 @ 4:26PM
They never married.
She dumped him.
She had a nice rack...30 years ago.
He had...squat.
Appleby| 7.28.11 @ 6:47AM
Its the End Times and things will get much, much worse before the end. Stand firm and prepare.
John Daniel| 7.28.11 @ 6:54AM
Chapter 10 "Why the Worst Get on Top" from F.A. Hayek's "Road to Serfdom." We are doomed.
Mich| 7.28.11 @ 9:36AM
Excellent read in light of current political leaders.
Obama keeps it up and he may be the first American ex President to live in exile. It feels like he does already, especially sometimes when I watch or listen to him and think "Who is this guy?, and does he really know what is going on?"
Aces and Eights| 7.28.11 @ 10:20AM
Assuming, of course, that he actually becomes an "EX" President.
John Daniel| 7.28.11 @ 10:36AM
We must wonder how a man so fundamentally flawed got elected in the first place. Hayek observed that the real problem with a socialist state was its alteration of the character of the people, a process that necessarily took generations. We have arrived.
Aces and Eights| 7.28.11 @ 11:55AM
And that "alteration" is no accident. Remember Donna Shalala in 1993, whose said "we are here to change the culture."
SpiralArchitect| 7.28.11 @ 11:51AM
Best insight into O'Drama ( a worthy read ):
http://www.americanthinker.com.....itude.html
Clint| 7.28.11 @ 7:02AM
Don't Let The GOP Ruling Elite Fops Cut & Run Now.
" In a series of phone calls, administration officials have told bankers that the administration will not allow a default to happen even if the debt cap isn't raised by the August 2 date"
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Being Fought On This Hill.
Stand & Fight.
Oldefarte| 7.28.11 @ 5:28PM
Since the debt interest only represents 6% of the federal spending, it's moronic to think that they could pay same. What probably won't be paid is SS, so the idiot can continue scaring the ignorant public with his Chicago street merchant BS into turning against Republicans!!!!!!!
Southern_Comment| 7.28.11 @ 7:03AM
This isn't over by a long shot. Forget La Raza - they only hold any power (and really none at all as Obama will throw them under the bus too) - As far as Obama and his bs dream of dictatorship - the American people have been nice - we'll continue that effort until Nov and then he's out of there. He will be out of there, no matter if he has any plans of retaining his position. Consider me the fat lady and until I belt out a tune - this ain't over.
Mimi| 7.28.11 @ 7:04AM
What is a President of the UNITED STATES, doing going to La Raza...and giving a " I want to be a dictator speech " ! Then, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz , as reported on Politico accuses Republicans of being DICTATORS.
Somehow the Country in OBAMA'S term in office, is slipping in it's usual dignity....very unbecoming when we think of the GRIT and SACRIFICE done on our behalf...that is still going on....Why should we have to be brought to such shame ?
Willis| 7.28.11 @ 8:14AM
You are right, it is shameful. Good word. But then Bill Clinton institutionalized shamelessness in Washington.
However, it could be worse. That amorphous group of patriots, level-headed working people who seek only to replace shame with honor, pride and respect and who are somewhat carelessly referred to as the Tea Party, might not have successfully led the 2010 revolt in the House of Representatives. If Pelosi were still Speaker we wouldn't even be talking about debt and deficit reduction. A debt limit increase and additional reckless spending would have already been rammed down our throats without regard for consequences just as Obamacare and Dodd-Frank were. And, of course, we would be denied the pleasure of seeing the president throwing his little hissy fits.
So, I for one would like to thank the Tea Party and those members of Congress they helped elect and urge them to redouble their important efforts. We should all be grateful.
Mike| 7.30.11 @ 8:53PM
Recently it was Bill Cliton who said that Obama should raise the debt ceiling on his own because that is what Cliton says he would have done. So the jig is up! Cliton was really our first Dictator -In-Chief.
This explains why Slick Willy directed the banks to make loans to people who could not pay because he was King Willy the First!
Anthony| 7.28.11 @ 9:44AM
To answer your question, La Raza are Obozo's constituents. He cannot politically survive without the votes of illegals to sway key states.
Obozo has the same plans for America that La Raza and the radical left do, the dismantling of America.
Obozo would love to give the American southwest back to Mexico because, like all radical leftists, he thinks America stole it in the first place.
The Muslim Marxist is not an American, and I don't mean by birth. His background and traditions are all anti-American.
I fear America may not survive Obozo. 2012 will be the year America dies, or Americans take their country back.
Aces and Eights| 7.28.11 @ 10:23AM
"He cannot politically survive without the votes of illegals to sway key states."
Like California. This explains how the State that elected Ronal Reagan could elect Jerry Brown THREE TIMES!!! Illegal alien voters pretty much swing California elections. Democrats can't lose, except to each other.
Ish Kabibble| 7.28.11 @ 9:36PM
Er, I probably shouldn't point this out -- because I don't expect it will make any difference to you -- but illegals can't vote. They're illegal, therefore they can't register, right-winger dogma to the contrary.
Aces and Eights| 7.28.11 @ 10:55PM
Mr. Kabibble, you clearly are naive. Illegal aliens DO vote in California and other States. Ever hear of "Motor Voter"? The semi-automatic voter registration program tied to a driver's license application? And completely without verification? Happens every day. How about voter registration by mail? I know of people who registered their DOG to vote, with an obvious one-word dog name. They did it as a test and never used it. But it is possible, even easy, and clearly illegal aliens DO vote. It is illegal for them to do so, but then again, their mere BEING in the USA is illegal. And yet they're still here and millions more come in all the time and many of them DO vote. Indeed not only do they vote, many vote multiple times as Democrat Party operatives bus them around from precinct to precinct. These programs are a deliberate policy of the Democrat Party. This isn't dogma, it is fact. Grow up.
BackToBasics| 7.29.11 @ 12:10AM
And at some voting places where they "count" the votes, Spot and Rover probably had blank voter forms filled out for them by oh so helpful Democrats.
Aces and Eights| 7.29.11 @ 12:16AM
Absolutely. Remember the "hanging chads" from 2000? The AlGore Democrats were deliberately trying to defraud the legitimate vote by ALTERING BALLOTS during the recounts. No doubt, Mr. Kabibble thinks AlGore won in 2000. Sad state of affairs.
Mike| 7.30.11 @ 10:05PM
Ish was too enthralled by Slick Willy Cliton and his Slick Willy to notice that Slick screwed America by signing into law the Motor Voter Law.
Washington Strate is a magnet state for illegals to obtain driver's licenses and to register to vote because all they have to show that they paid a gas bill to qualify.
Of course Governor Queen Christine Gregoire and her "I see nothing, NOTHING!" attitude doesn't help. Of course this is exactly how she won the first election from votes found in drawers, trunks of cars, in waste baskets, and from suit cases delivered to Democrat Headquarters in the dead of night.
Obama thrives on the support of people like Queen Christine!
jmontesque| 7.29.11 @ 1:15AM
Well I lived in California near San Francisco and they sure voted where I lived!
Skippy| 7.29.11 @ 4:35PM
Illegals cannot vote?
Where, on Mars?
In Mexico?
Millions of illegals vote in America every year.
Your sort of willful dishonest blindness is incurable.
Keith I| 7.28.11 @ 7:18AM
The one saving grace of the "Boehner Plan" is that the discussion will continue in January or February when the unwashed masses may start to wipe the goo from their sleeping eyes.
Any Repubic candidate that has the sense God gave a grasshopper will turn this into a lesson on Baseline Budgeting and make its repeal the cornerstone of his/her campaign.
Simply flatten the budget growth to zero, even from its current grossly inflated figures, and the budget balances in 8 or 9 years. Better still, create a budget using 2008 as the base line and it is balanced in two years. How many American households or businesses are operating under the same budgets that they did in 2008? Speaking for myself, my household budget is off 30% and my business rervenue is off 70%. 2008 levels look really good by comparison.
The Bishop| 7.28.11 @ 7:18AM
This president is a turd in the middle of the dinner plate of the United States.
The Bishop| 7.28.11 @ 7:18AM
This president is a turd in the middle of the dinner plate of the United States.
Ish Kabibble| 7.28.11 @ 9:38PM
That was such a trenchant observation you felt compelled to make it twice?
The Bishop| 7.29.11 @ 4:31AM
You read it twice, didn't you?
Skippy| 7.29.11 @ 4:36PM
I always read a good book twice.
Rob Roy| 7.28.11 @ 7:45AM
Obama increased domestic spending by 25% in the first two years of his term and we can't cut this back? Both parties view themselves as entitled to be in Washington and therfore this money is theirs to spend as they see fit. This attitude has brought the country to its knees. Enough! Time to put the principles of the founders back into government. Limited government with limited powers. Get them out of running our lives. I like making my own decisions without their debt and smug" I know better than you peasants" attitudes.
DaveS| 7.28.11 @ 7:47AM
'What does Obama mean by compromise? He means that Tea Party Republicans take equal responsibility for a crisis they didn't create and swallow a non-solution they didn't negotiate.'
He'd like nothing better than to separate the Tea Party from the GOP and assure his won re-election. But that wouldn't be his doing: it will be the timid GOP's.
SpiralArchitect| 7.28.11 @ 12:07PM
A third party would assure more Obummer.
Elgordo| 7.28.11 @ 8:00AM
EXPOSE THE RED STATES DEM SENATORS WHO SIGNED REID'S D.O.A. LETTER......
There are 11 vulnerable Dem Senate seats up for re-election in Red States or states that went Republican in 2010.......6 of these Senators are especially vulnerable: ; Ben Nelson of Nebr. Bill Nelson of FL, Claire McCaskill of MO., Jon Tester of Mont., and from the coal rich states of W.Va. and PA. respectively, Joe Manchin and Robt. Casey..... In other states such as Wisc., VA., No. Dak., New Mex., Hawaii., their Dem Senators, many sensing defeat, are retiring. Also NJ's Gov. Christie is making voting for Republicans more popular in the Garden State , so their Dem Senator in 2012, Robt. Menendez, may also be vulnerable. ......The names of these vulnerable Dem Senators should be revealed as having signed Sen. Reid's Dead on Arrival Letter.
Indy| 7.28.11 @ 3:44PM
Manchin should be an easy one to pressure, as a former governor he should support a BBA, he knows that spending cuts had to be made in the states, the Feds must do the same.
A.C. Santore| 7.28.11 @ 9:14AM
I've been referring to him as the "proto-dictator" for several years.
Now he openly implies that he would like to drop the "proto" part.
Someone please preserve us!
Rurik| 7.28.11 @ 3:32PM
Remember back to November 2008. In the immediate wake of the election he suggested that Bush ought to resign and depart early, "so we can begin to rule immediately". then he said he would be "ready to rule from day one. " He didn't say "govern", he said "rule". That was the key that he believed himself annointed as an autocrat, not elected as a Presid(ing) Chief Executive.
Anthony| 7.28.11 @ 9:29AM
The mask has been slipping off the Muslim Marxist, cum dictator, for some time now, not that his drone followers would notice, they already know what a fraud he is, they just want what Obozo wants.
As each day goes by, and the left make their true intentions known, is it any wonder our society is on the verge of civil war?
Truly these people are the enemies of freedom, if not down right insane. To call the Rs dictators, yet in the same breath, cheer when Obozo muses about directly violating the Constitution, tells us all we need to know.
Compromise to the left means total capitulation to their desires and political aims. America is finally at the brink, the final showdown has begun.
If our leaders are unable to defeat these anti-American concepts in the political arena, then it will up to us to fight for America by, to use the popular catchphrase of the left, "by any means necessary".
russel| 7.28.11 @ 10:09AM
Always wondered what was civil about the North - South fight , but at any rate it's coming to freeloader - producer fight . Government - private sector fight . State- DC fight . Socialist - capitalist . I very much hope the states will take on the feds and wad them back into their hole , before too much ' civil ' unrest accumulates .
Redstateboy| 7.28.11 @ 9:29AM
"Conveniently forgotten for the moment is Reagan's calls for whole departments of the federal government to be abolished."
Great Point Mr. Neumayr!! Reagan was right then and it's still right today - Defund - Dismantle: EPA, HUD, HEW and get the Federal Gov't out from under FreddieMac and FannieMae - for starters.
Pete| 7.28.11 @ 9:31AM
"from civil liberties to questions of economic justice" - Since when was "economic justice" accepted as an actual term in the English language much less used in a speech by the president?
Aces and Eights| 7.28.11 @ 10:28AM
Since President O'Bozo took office. But don't forget, "Economic Democracy" is a similar term that has been around for decades. What it means is "I get to vote on how WE spend YOUR money." We have a Socialist-Marxist in the White House. And he was ELECTED!
Michael L. Hauschild| 7.28.11 @ 10:32AM
The La Raza event was nothing more than a trial balloon for the invocation of the 14th Amendment. All you Constitutional scholars nervously litigating this scenario as “unconstitutional” are missing the course of the individual mandate through the courts. Obama simply under cover of a bill “we need to pass to find out what was in it” placed this affront to liberty in motion (and in effect); he knew full well that it would be in place before the final ruling from SCOTUS. Don’t look now but by the time the courts rule on his authority to independently raise the “debt ceiling” your “wonderful” non-freshman Republicans and equally despicable cohorts across the aisle will have already spent the money.
Warrior | 7.28.11 @ 5:35PM
He and his party knows, there will be no impeachment as long as the dems hold the senate. What has also been swept under the carpet is how quickly the unemployment rate will rise if the trillion dollar annual stimulus is cut from the budget. Everyone glosses over the one or two million jobs that all this borrowed money is keeping on life support.
Margie| 7.28.11 @ 7:06PM
It's the way of Marxists/Communists dictators~ screw the economy~ make the people suffer so badly that they have to either starve or come begging to the dictator.
This guy KNOWS exactly what he's doing to us.
Margie| 7.28.11 @ 11:51PM
p.s. ADD:
and whoever doesn't vote 'R' for President is contributing to his re election.
Louis Jenkins| 7.28.11 @ 10:52AM
"I promise you. "
How many promises has Obama made? Yet another promise is made at the expense of the tax payers and citizens of these United States. We cannot keep living up to the promises made by the Spender n Chief. This promise was made to an organization that represents illegal aliens. "Come on down boys, the water is great here in this country." It is at our expense, and I for one, am sick of it.
David W| 7.28.11 @ 10:56AM
Ask Obama if we should compromise on slavery? A lot of people are against it. A few are probably for it. What compromise should we have?
The right answer is "none" because slavery is wrong. It is also wrong to steal money from some and give it to others. Regardless of the rationale. If a "rich" person wants to give then they can, but it is not the government's right to force it.
This compromise crap is wearing thin, and the Republicans can't seem to come up with a good argument to fight what the head numbnuts is spouting in his press conferences.
Wayne | 7.28.11 @ 11:01AM
From what I am reading the GOP establishment agrees with Obama and sees the Tea Party as obstructionists.
PolishKnight| 7.28.11 @ 11:09AM
The left loves the word compromise because it's by definition how they get their way. If they want to spend an additional trillion (which is a staggering number) but settle instead of 999 billion, that's a "compromise." However, it's clearly necessary they need to make cuts which is "extreme."
Let's try this analogy: You've in a car driving towards a cliff. The Democrat advocates a "compromise" solution: slow down from 80 to 75 (even though you're only going 60, but they wanted to go 80), then that's a bi-partisanship. Stopping is "extreme".
But it's also necessary.
Obama took the money bait that GW gave him with his TARP bailout and now can't control his spending at all. Even worse, he's spending money on total crap that is worthless. At least the Europeans get trains and _FREE_ healthcare. The left just gets to spend more for less AND lose money in taxes. It's the worst socialist imaginable. Which is a kind of victory, I suppose.
Al Adab| 7.28.11 @ 11:25AM
We need to be observant here. Ever since the "gators and moat" speech his public pronouncements have become further and further removed from reality. Either his is completely out of touch with the nation or he actually believes this stuff. It is enough to raise serious questions about his mental stability. We had better study up on the 25th amendment.
KennesawJack| 7.28.11 @ 1:36PM
AA, I'm certain he believes this stuff. I wonder if anyone has given any thought to a "State of Emergency" edict following a manufactured crisis, i.e. not sending out SS checks. Obamarx then will lay claim to extraordinary powers which the press will applaud and which will cause the country to erupt. Wonder what the military would do.... Maybe this scenario is not as far-fetched as it sounds. I simply cannot believe these people don't know what they're about.
Al Adab| 7.28.11 @ 3:12PM
K-J:
Personally I was thinking something along the lines of urban riots as the economy collapses. Martial law etc. Then we could get rid of those inconvenient elections.
KennesawJack| 7.28.11 @ 4:25PM
No longer an improbable scenario, is it? Sorry damn state of affairs. Back to my question, what do you think the military would do if Obamarx tried to pull that off?
Al Adab| 7.28.11 @ 5:36PM
K-J:
Some would follow orders and others would oppose. I suspect the split might be along generational lines but that is only a guess. If it came to that, a military coup, the civil war would not be pretty. Those are the options if ballots fail us.
We have had our Marius and our Grachii. I fear we might find our Ceasar when what we need is our Cicero and Cato And we need them fast.
KennesawJack| 7.28.11 @ 6:06PM
Awful to even consider. My concern, though, is I believe the far left knows this is the last shot they're going to get. The must know they are finished, forever, after the next election. Personally, I can't see a Cicero or a Cato anywhere. Like I said when you referenced them in an earlier post, "Yon Cassius has that lean and hungry look."
Al Adab| 7.28.11 @ 6:35PM
Indeed but I hope we needn't rely on him.
When the Constitutional convention debated the impeachment provision Gouvenour Morris opposed until one of the others said, "Well that still would leave assasination for an option." Morris changed his mind.
KennesawJack| 7.28.11 @ 8:14PM
My point is Obamarx is Cassius, the Constitution is Ceasar. Neither he nor the far left will have any qualms in assassinating the Constitution.
RichTex| 7.28.11 @ 11:43AM
In the current political lexicon, fashioned by the Leftists in the old media, the terms “compromise” and “bipartisanship” really have the same meaning: Republicans helping Democrats adopt the Democrat agenda.
Mimi| 7.28.11 @ 11:43AM
To the morally right and honorable....you can compromise!
You can NEVER compromise with the DEVIL!
Boehner is trying to fit a square into a circle.
You first have to shut up the screaming "I Want It NOW" kid, who wants to run into traffic...to get that shiny BALL! Picture "O" screaming ....
"I WANT MORE MONEY" "GIMMIE MORE"!
Sarbojit| 7.28.11 @ 12:06PM
Woody Allen can’t hold a candle to Thomas Friedman who, hand on American heart, sincerely believed if only the US could be China “for even a day”, all problems would go away like a bad dream.
Franco| 7.28.11 @ 12:17PM
Recall the election when these idiots were composing peans--hymns--to this guy, as if he were some sort of Second Coming Christ figure. What absolute idiots.
Dave Williams| 7.28.11 @ 12:25PM
No surprise about King Zero's yearnings for absolute power -- scratch a liberal and find a fascist, every single time. And in his case, the scratch has to be only about 2 atoms deep. Let's raise money, persuade everyone within earshot, and (borrowing from the DemonRats) vote early and often next November. This sicko can -- and MUST -- be stopped.
Sarbojit| 7.28.11 @ 12:35PM
While you and I may laugh at these political masturbators, do not be quick.
This wishfulness comes from all over American academia, not just from the usual suspects in MSM.
"... the president could instruct the Treasury to borrow money without congressional authorization", the mangling of the 14th Amendment so loved by liberals.
Of course, these honchos don't say borrow from whom. Today, the Chinese will make you pay through the nose. A degrade of triple A would do the same.
"At the point at which the economy is melting down, who cares what the Supreme Court is going to say?" ... says Jack Balkin, a professor at Yale Law School.
"But while legal briefs were being prepared and arguments honed, Obama would have raised the debt ceiling on his own authority--and the crisis would have been averted".
Be not so sanguine. There are many out there who want the Constitution be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Obama may have coyly and demurely "rejected" this viewpoint, the very fact that a duly elected American president even mentioned this viewpoint that "some" have is deeply disturbing.
Only the American people stand between what is clearly a build-up to political non-accountabilty and basic freedoms. May they not fail.
Michael Tomlinson| 7.28.11 @ 1:18PM
As an affirmative action student who played at studying law at Havard Obama isn't very intelligent, but he is ruthlessly ambitious a characteristic that along with his race has carried him farther than intellect or ability would have ever carried him. Later as an affirmative action "lawyer" he got a "no teach" job, but was so bad he failed to get tenure, but that gave him cred as a "Constitutional" lawyer. Then as a token legislator in Illinois he got paid and praised to for voting present -- his huge ego was now on overdrive. Then when a lucky break made him a US Senator he decided it was time America had an affirmative action President -- him. Cagey like a rat he realized Clinton fatigue would kill Hillary's run so he took his chance and became America's first affirmative action President. The rest is his party and America's nightmare.
What all this tells us is that Democrats don't support democracy and ideally they want a dictatorship. Scratch an active Democart and you'll find a neo-fascist/NAZI.
Kingofthenet| 7.28.11 @ 1:23PM
The President has also sworn to defend the country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The goal of an enemy is to reduce or eliminate the ability of our government to function. If a foreign power were to plant agents in our country who ran for office with the intent of reducing or eliminating the ability of our government to function, those agents would be considered enemies of our country. The Constitution makes no distinction between such agents being foreign or domestic.
Truth to Power| 7.28.11 @ 2:43PM
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Al Adab| 7.28.11 @ 3:10PM
So the Left was fond of telling us...when they were out of office. It seems to have changed to "Obey!" since 2006.
W| 7.28.11 @ 3:49PM
King, who are the domestic enemies now, be specific and back up your claim.
John Navratil| 7.28.11 @ 5:53PM
Kingofthenet,
Count me an enemy then. My goal is to reduce the ability of this government to function. All the way down to its essential minimum.
Ground Control| 7.28.11 @ 7:48PM
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
A few words from Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Kingofthenet, take note.
Datsun Mark| 7.28.11 @ 2:13PM
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mohandas Gandhi
Michael Tomlinson| 7.28.11 @ 2:41PM
“The U.S. economic picture for the first half of (Obama's) 2011 will not be a pretty one,” Gregory Daco, principal U.S. economist for IHS Global Insight, said in a report. “One will remember the slowdown in the manufacturing sector, a bounce back in the unemployment rate, weak housing, poor confidence, and the debt-ceiling debacle.”
Indy| 7.28.11 @ 3:48PM
He is the Pulpit Bully, I can no longer watch or even listen to his speeches. I force myself to read the text just to be informed. The body language when he speaks is 100% bullying, then when you add in the tone and snarky campaign tactics...I dread the upcoming campaign with another round of media fawning.
John Navratil| 7.28.11 @ 6:11PM
Indy,
I don't know how you do it. I read his speeches once I found that I couldn't stand listening to his staccato delivery and sentences which trail off.
In every case, he begins with an unassailable truth - One thing we can all agree on, he will say, Mom and Apple pie are just delicious.
Then he'll put in a few conditionals which shows he's thought about this - Even those of you who prefer Peach will still not pass up a slice of Apple. Now we all know and accept that we can't have Apple pie all the time.
Then comes the straw man - But some are just not content to share the Apple pie we have, but want Apple pie for themselves every time they get on their corporate jets. I'll bet they don't even finish the pie most of the time. They just throw the rest into the moat to feed the alligators.
After a period of reasoned statements based on a false premise he promises to skewer the straw man if the electorate will just allow him to - Now I can't promise that everyone will get all the Apple pie they want, but my first job when I wake up and the last thing on my mind before I sleep is getting each American their fair share of Apple pie.
Of course, there is NO plan. It's always aspirational.
I just can't bring myself to do it any more.
BackToBasics| 7.29.11 @ 12:22AM
And we need to "eat our peas" too. The writers of his speeches have childish thining. He does too as he uses his self-described "gift" of oratory to read this drivel. Worse yet, if he didn't have a teleprompter to augment his "gift" even more ridiculous statements would spew forth.
I've said it before, from grade school to post-graduate classes and in churches and other meetings, I've listened to over 1000 speakers who are better than him.
I think that Christians who attend church hear a better speaker than him almost every week.
BackToBasics| 7.29.11 @ 12:24AM
typo - childish thinking
Mattled| 7.28.11 @ 4:18PM
AmSpec,
I will give you two hundred dollars for the following:
$100 goes to your fundraising and the other $100 goes to a fund to put "mainstream media" anchors on ads, billboards, newspaper, TV--whatever---and tell them to stop cheer leading for the Obumbler. Or just plain BIASED, and LIARS will do.
Without the lying treasonous aid of the so-called MSM, he and Tony Rezko would be sharing a jail cell with Blago.
Enough is enough. Call the media out or they will destroy ANY Rep candidate.
Marxfreesociety| 7.28.11 @ 6:53PM
Someone needs to tell BHO "that he is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." he is a solitary criminal enterprise on wheels!
Oamas Pajamas| 7.28.11 @ 7:56PM
OhBummer is a pathological quack and a nasty booger.
Bob Grant| 7.28.11 @ 8:53PM
He's thuggish only because the mainstream media allows him to be thuggish by NEVER requiring anything of him during press conferences or interviews. They only require him to be his charismatic self.
We have all suffered as a result.
Along with boycotting Obama we should permanently boycott the mainstream media and their parent companies. Problem half solved.
John II| 7.28.11 @ 9:29PM
"They only require him to be his charismatic self."
Actually, they only require him to be his narcissistic self, so that he mirrors their onanistic worldview.
There is no charism in the Professor. I mean, Mother Teresa had charism, Winston Churchill had charism, Our Ron had charism, know-what-I-mean?
And now back to "Seven Days in May" (1964), in which the liberal mindset was finally set, when the Professor was an impressionable child of three before his momma and his grandparents helped him become what he is today at 50--that which morphed into the Obama mindset.
Bob Grant| 7.28.11 @ 9:39PM
I was being a little sarcastic. In truth, the only people who are charmed by his "charisma" are 16 year old prep-school students who buy into his pseudo intellectual drivel...oh...and ah...the mainstream media.
Brian| 7.28.11 @ 10:44PM
I'm going to laugh when Obama simply by-passes congress and claims the 14th amt allows him to create as much debt as he wants. Join the birther club lol. The constitution means nothing anymore, just words. Right to life, liberty, HA!
Dominic| 7.28.11 @ 11:22PM
Thankyou,
This article clearly expresses how I feel toward the left. I'm sick of their sadistic feelings toward those they cannot control. Hatred for the left is now natural; no more eyebrows raised when someone claims the media is biased or this democratic party sucks....baby killers!
The left will eventually die off as they cannot make their own offspring; they have to steal them from normal families.
Maybe someday, I won't hate liberals so much; not any time soon.
general summerall| 7.29.11 @ 1:49AM
Young Lightningrod Bache in his American Aurora Knew that George Washington was coniving every second of the day to make himself King of America. One of the reasons imo that HRC got knifed in the heart by Liberal America was that her chronic clawing for Power got to be too obvious. A couple of years ago CSpan had a panel show on from Frisco about Law and Morality, and three of the panelists were judges from the 9th Circuit Court--and one of them got up and opined that if judges were given the authority to do so they could mandate an end to all Social Injustice, and the audience clapped in agreement. I about fell out of my chair. Would HRC as Potus have ruled any differently than O has done?
POST American| 7.30.11 @ 12:36AM
-------------BOTTOM LINE----------------
For any of those out there still buying the
utterly set up, false front, CFR-Rockefeller
scripted 'Left/Right paradigm' --a little
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NOW Declassified --State Department memo 200
Then US Ambassador to RED China, Bush Sr.
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---RESOLVED---
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center, and eventual TOP of the NWO pyramid.
The US to be systematically sold out and taken
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----Everything OLD is NEW AGAIN!
REALLY
TRULY
jackc| 7.31.11 @ 2:22PM
The traditional government model is obsolete. Obama and his cohorts have more than adequately exemplified this failure.
Printing bills, taxation and political games, do not equate to wealth creation.
Free markets and the freedom from bureaucratic burdens for the human spirit, are the alchemy of wealth creation.
Non-profit administrative organizations that are self-sustaining, based on revenue generated from services rendered, not taxation, is a model for future governments.
POST American| 8.2.11 @ 1:12AM
"----Did you just hear me?
----THIS IS TREASON----"
-Alex Jones
--------------Take heed America!
TAKE HEED---------------------