"How much ya got"
Posted on 03/02/2014 12:00:12 PM PST by Kaslin
We are all guilty of providing a wide leeway to a politician that we favor. If the politician is someone we support, we restrain ourselves when something becomes public that would have us in a tizzy if done by someone with whom we dislike politically. That is referred to as “cutting someone some slack.” But there is a limit for everyone like there was for Anthony Weiner or Larry Craig. When will the grownups in the Democratic Party say enough is enough with Barack Obama?
We know that he is your guy. We also know that after 2010 there are virtually no moderate Democrats in the House as almost all the Blue Dogs were wiped out, leaving the caucus consisting of almost all liberals or leftists. We also know that the Democratic Senators have ceded virtually all control of their caucus to Harry Reid who has become a Senate of One.
Yet the latest move by the Obama Administration has got to scare the daylights out of any American. The proposal by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to do a “study” of newsrooms and place people from the commission in the newsroom asking questions about editorial content and the decision-making process makes McCarthy tactics look tame. Fortunately, the largely dormant press that has licked the behind of President Obama in an adoring fashion for over five years rose up to force a withdrawal of this proposal. Whether it is a termination of the tactic or just a regrouping is yet to be seen. However you look at it, the move was the single most oppressive attempt by the government to stifle the first amendment in a non-wartime period in our history.
This comes on the heels of one of the worst cases of Presidential overreach in our history. The episode of the IRS suppressing and harassing groups applying for 501(c) 4 status remains a blight upon the Obama Administration. This column stated when the story broke that every American should be scared by the abusive use of the IRS to attack political enemies and political free speech. We stated that if it were allowed to go unrebuked by Congress, in the future the tables could be turned and the same tactics could be used against Democrats –- so why weren’t the Democrats screaming?
If ever there was any doubt of the guilt of the Administration in this matter, they recently confirmed that guilt themselves. Their making public an attempt to rewrite the law through IRS regulations that would, in effect, eliminate 501(c) 4 entities was a brazen attempt to institutionalize what they had attempted to do surreptiously. Fortunately some elements of the left have taken a stand against this power grab. The ACLU submitted a 26-page rebuttal of the position, calling the advocacy done by the entities “the heart of our representative democracy.” Even the most left-wing of unions, the SEIU, staked a position against the proposed Obama Administration regulations as they fear the restrictions adopted could then be spread to 501(c)5 organizations (unions) or 501(c)6 organizations (trade associations). At least some of Mr. Obama’s base has gained clarity about his subversive tactics.
Where is the leadership of the Democrats in Congress as the President expands executive authority to new levels? Obama’s single-handed rewriting of the Affordable Care Act should make them shutter. First of all, the Democrats in Congress wrote the act so you would think they might not want to have another branch of government gutting it. Second, you might think they would be worried about the tactics employed by Obama that would give justification to the next Republican president (there will be one and not soon enough) to alter any law that a president takes a dislike to and wants to change.
Yet when the President came to their turf to deliver the State of the Union address, not only were the Democrats docile, they were downright compliant. A president of the United States dared to speak to the legislative branch and tell them he was going to change the laws they are in charge of creating by the Constitution. The Democrats not only did not slap him down for co-opting their powers, they give him a standing ovation. One could conclude they had lost their collective minds.
When a prior president went too far, a group of Republican elders went to him and told him it was time to go and he went. Though the situation has not reached the same 1974 crisis point, it is seriously worrisome. The use of various arms of the government to harass citizens and suppress the first amendment is the most egregious misuse of power by any Chief Executive.
It is time for Democrats to stand and say no more. If you don’t do it now there could be permanent harm to our democracy. Certainly some of you will no longer be in office come this November because the American people will certainly say enough is enough.
There comes a point at which the pure lust for power trumps even ideology. We’re there. Daniel Webster had it right: these people mean to rule well, but they mean to rule.
Heh.
The completely unethical, parasitic, morally bankrupt, insipid reprobates, perverts and degenerates that make up the RAT Party will take everything that they can glom on to, the rest of this country be damned.
“When a prior president went too far, a group of Republican elders went to him and told him it was time to go and he went. Though the situation has not reached the same 1974 crisis point, it is seriously worrisome. “
Has not reached the 1974 Crisis Point? What freeking planet is this guy on. What Nixon did, pales in comparison to the damage that Obama has done, and continues to do. What does he want? Troops goose stepping on Pennsylvania Avenue?
You assume that there are grownups there , who value trational values over "Hope and Change" .
I don't think you will find anyone to stand up for the Constitutional Republic that we were
either in the Democratic , nor Republican Party .
The best predicter of human behavior is past behavior
and so far ,too few are willing to supress agenda over maintaining political power .
The rats will take everything they can, plus more
Yep.
The time to set out the RAT traps is right now.
Without the threat of impeachment and removal, the Obamanation has truly become a dictator.
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How much ya got?
They'll take everything and more. The grownups in the Democrat party are evil . . . plain and simple. Each and every one of them would do the same thing if he could get away with it. Fortunately for them, the shade of Obama's skin has made him a "gxd" who can do no wrong, so he can actually accomplish what they have dreamed of since the accursed 60s.
This was what the "hippie anarchists" of sixty years ago wanted all along . . . a totalitiarian Communist state where they rule with an iron hand and opposition to the "iron laws of history" is against the law. Obama will probably try to create an official, de jure single party state before he leaves office . . . if he ever does.
If the churches had any guts (or any authority, which most don't want in the first place) they'd excommunicate or penalize the Black "churches" until they either returned to the practice of the religion they profess or at least drop the pretense and declare themselves scientific atheists, because for all practical purposes, this is exactly what they are.
Who dat?
In a republic you have three governments...
1) Local... real most important..
2) State.. for dealing with county’s..
3) Federal.. for dealing with other governments..
In a democracy you have ONE givernment..
(banana republics are democracy’s)..
1) FEDERAL... with clients(provence’s[States]) and gofers(local)..
** there is zero things democrats have in common with republicans.. the very conflict is Civil War.. one system will win the other will lose.. They are not compatible..
You are either democrat or republican even if you’re libertarian..
What you say you are may not be what you really are..
ALL democrats are socialists.. many republicans are as well..
Just the act of BEING a democrat is Treasonous..
The democrats will take as much as they please, because they have the full force of the United States government behind them, and they can vote to take as much of your hard earned wealth as they damn well please, because they elected a hardcore fascist as _resident. Be careful what you vote for, because you might just get it.
Do they even HAVE editors at Townhall.com?
“Without the threat of impeachment and removal, the Obamanation has truly become a dictator.”
America is under a Homosexual minority dictatorship, in control of national government, the major media, and now, much of the military.
And WE let it happen.
I would shudder to think that my house’s shutters would not keep out the storm.
The leftists believe that they will be in power forever so they don’t care. With the state of the spineless GOPe they could be right.
Meaningless. They could thing Obama was the anti-Christ and they will still vote LibTard. The Dems could run a goat and they would vote for him.
There is zero chance of moving the Left at all Right. We are in the middle of a numbers game. That’s all it is. Whoever has the most numbers wins.
I know so many Dems (I'm in Cali) that are not Marxists, or even far-lefties.
At some point Mister Obama's long trail of horrible policies and choices will catch up with him with those in the once-great Dem party who somehow realize that Obama and the current Dem leaders are actually scary.
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