[livius]

I used to think Obama was going to provoke a clash, but for the very reason that you have cited, I don’t think he will.

Instead, it’s just going to be one little thing at a time, with the government restricting more and more of our choices and putting its tentacles into every formerly private area of our lives - but just a little bit at a time.

Nobody is even commenting any more on the stream of crazy, nit-picking “executive orders” coming out of the WH. We have already begun to accept the usurpation of legislative powers and the ignorance (in the sense of ignoring) of our legal system. The press barely even reports it any more.

Obama wants there to be a BMI notation on your “permanent medical record?” Oh, okay. Who would ever have thought we would have accepted even the concept of an individual, centralized “permanent medical record” in the first place?

[ScottinVA]

I used to think Obama was going to provoke a clash, but for the very reason that you have cited, I don’t think he will.

There will be no clash. The huge majority of Americans have no idea what awaits them in either the 0bamaCare or FinReg bills. It will be presented to them situationally and incrementally. They'll bitch and complain from time to time, but in the end, they'll meekly comply.

[driftdiver]

“Who would ever have thought we would have accepted even the concept of an individual, centralized “permanent medical record” in the first place?”

They are doing this through the medicare/medicaid angle. If doctors drop those then they don’t have to participate.

The states are already building the Health Information Exchanges though.

[hinckley buzzard]

The "clash" is coming, but timing is everything. He hasn't needed it in this phase of the coup, but there will come a time when incrementalism will reach its useful limit. Then the crisis phase will be generated, with the intention of consolidating power and eliminating opposition. Call it the Reichstag moment.

[TheDailyChange]

>>>>>I used to think Obama was going to provoke a clash

In order for him to provoke a clash would require a set of NU!S which he has NONE. A real man in other words. This guy is a SNAKE and a WEASEL and will use his power to P!MP others out to do his bidding.

[rickb308]

“I used to think Obama was going to provoke a clash, but for the very reason that you have cited, I don’t think he will.

Instead, it’s just going to be one little thing at a time, with the government restricting more and more of our choices and putting its tentacles into every formerly private area of our lives - but just a little bit at a time.”

aka “Death by a Thousand Cuts”

[Jacquerie]

Instead, it’s just going to be one little thing at a time . . .

Quite right.

"The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government changes something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state."

- Aristotle