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National Review (Corner) ^ | 12/11/14 | Andrew McCarthy

[Fester Chugabrew]

O . . . and I heartily agree with your use of the word “dysfunctional’ in these matters.

[nathanbedford]

Thanks, Travis, for that citation to your excellent post which I regret having missed on its first appearance but this time it is going into my archives.

I recommend it to all FReepers who have not seen it. It is a thorough recounting of many of Obama's depredations and any thoughtful reader will have to come to grips with the inescapable question, where is Obama and his gang going with this?

Now that the government is funded to next September (I could only count my self as terminally naïve if I believed that anything will happen to Obamacare in February), Boehner and McConnell have in effect given Obama carte blanche to run wild with unconstitutional and ultimately tyrannical executive orders.

That is why I said in an earlier post that our constitutional government is in mortal peril. We are in mortal peril of the kind of tyranny that emerged after the Reichstag fire to which you refer.

[TADSLOS]

Article V or Civil War II

Yep. This is the crossroads.

[A CA Guy]

Boycott and expose those contributers.

[Jane Long]

They’re likely large, Wall Street companies. They probably receive government contracts that dwarf what our little boycott would do...but, it doesn’t hurt to try.

[A CA Guy]

End that and other kinds of welfare.

[Jacquerie]

Words largely fail me this morning.

Last night’s vote wasn’t free government; it was a high crime.

[Travis McGee]

What we are witnessing is the slow-motion de-facto “Obama Enabling Act.” Instead of Congress openly voting to give Obama total power in one vote, as with Hitler, they are doing it piece by piece.

What is most worrying is that at each level, each escalation, the media has stuck by him. As Atkisson points out, any story coming from FOX, talk radio or the internet is discounted. As long as ABCNNBCBS are part of Team Obama, he won’t stop.

Fast and Furious was the first big test. 300+ murdered intentionally, and American Pravda helped in the cover-up. It was a natural progression to misuse the IRS, etc etc.

The important thing to remember is that future tyrants get their ducks lined up in a row FIRST before the boxcars and camps are opened for business. Team Hitler had secret SS members all over the German bureaucracy before the Reichstag Fire and Enabling Act. That is what Team Obama has been doing: installing or at least “testing” loyal stooges and henchmen all through the media, intel services, DOJ, etc.

[Travis McGee]

It was another part of the phased roll out of the “Obama Enabling Act.”

See above.

[nathanbedford]

Did the farmers of America, the shopkeepers, the laborers, the mothers and grandmothers know what was coming in 1861?

Did the parents of my neighbors here in Bavaria know what was coming when they put Hitler in office in 1933? In this context, have a look at Travis McGee's posts in this thread.

As you know, I have long felt that Article V needs a black Swan event to push it over the top. My fear is that the other side preparing for just such an event and our side is watching football games and soap operas. If and when the crunch comes, what is to the deliver the people to salvation through an article 5 movement instead of toward tyranny through a Reichstag fire, a terrorist attack, a devastating plague, or an economic collapse?

[nathanbedford]

That is what Team Obama has been doing: installing or at least “testing” loyal stooges and henchmen all through the media, intel services, DOJ, etc.

An apt description of the relative disparity of forces between evil and good which will align against one another in the age-old struggle for good against evil, for liberty against tyranny.

Every baby step that Obama takes makes the next larger step so much more obtainable and, to so many more converts, desirable. The crunch might not come in Obama's administration but the course he has sent us upon as a nation leads inevitably to a crackup.

Many an investor has gone broke trying to time the next crash and many an historian has made a fool of himself predicting the next crackup. But the crashes and the crackup's always come and the one looming somewhere in the dark ahead of us will be worse than most of us can imagine.

[Alas Babylon!]

I am at a loss over the GOP and why they did this...

I feel far worse now than I did when Obama first won. I honestly believe the American voter is fickle and votes on emotion but they do come to their senses and then buyers remorse begins. Even after Obama won reelection I was not as depressed because we had, due to democratic party over-reach, won the House.

I fought hard to give the Republicans a big victory this year. I wrote, spoke, and went on the air where ever I could to pitch the party. One item that always drew favorable remarks was the notion that Congress should NOT pass thousand page + bills that even they would not know the actual outcome of.

Seriously, last night’s vote feels like betrayal more than any other.

I’ve been a proud GOP supporter, up to this point. My so-called TEA party representative, Martha Roby, 2nd CD, Alabama, voted FOR this bill. I’ve made numerous calls to her office and they seemed to understand why so many of us were against the bill, but she voted Aye anyways. I can easily say that bill is something the vast majority of her strongly conservative leaning district’s constituents were against. Still, she vote Aye anyways. It only took her 2 terms to go from 2010 TEA party favorite to GOPe.

I WILL make it a point to support who ever her challenger is in 2016.

[Jane Long]

End that and other kinds of welfare.

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End that kind of welfare? Ha....

The Spending/Amnesty Bill they just passed has “that kind of welfare” baked right in. They voted themselves higher limit campaign donations...

...One last minute rider in particular—a provision that would effectively raise the amount that high net-worth donors can contribute to political party committees from $97,250 to $777,600...

Political party committees = RNC/DNC/NRSC/DCCC....etc.

Isn’t that special?

[SunkenCiv]

Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"

I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.

[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]

[Ghost of SVR4]

I called Congressman Kelly’s office about his yea vote. The Republicans are tap dancing. First the aide in DC tried telling me the bill does not support amnesty. When pressing him, he said “it only supports amnesty until February”. When I told him I called a handful of weeks ago and that office assured me Congressman Kelly was against all forms of amnesty and that his Yea vote was a complete 180 on top of supporting law breakers, I was told it was all about “strategy”. I informed the aide the Congressman needs to grow a spine and quit compromising with the obama administration and the aide laughed at me.
This is what we (at least I in my district) are dealing with now, turncoat “Republicans”.
I told the aide I will be volunteering any available hour I have in the future to make sure Kelly is not re-elected. His office straight up lied to me.

[Jacquerie]

Yes, super post from TM.

The White House outwardly or indirectly controls all institutions worth controlling.

Everything is secondary to politics, the dark art of using power to one’s purpose. Freedom be damned.

The parallels to Hitler's rise are compelling. Most Americans know things are very wrong, but do not realize we are only a presidential decree away from classic, hard tyranny.

There is little time for Article V, if there is any time at all.

[A CA Guy]

Yeah I know and the pork outside of medical research and farming needs to end.