"Dammit. Obamacare flopped. Who knew that 'Chicago
community-stupidity vibe' didn't travel so well to DC?"
“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Where are the Thomas Jeffersons when you need them?
OK, go ahead FReeper friends. Tell me I'm being naive and unrealistic and we can only do this at the ballot box, etc., etc., etc., and newbie here needs to just shut up and quit being so radical. Go ahead; I'll take my licks.
I don’t think sidestepping Congress is “going rogue.” It’s called treason. But it would take principled politicians in Congress in his own party to impeach him. There are no principled Democrats. The last one died about 20 years ago.
I won’t tell you we can only do this at the ballot box. I don’t think the ballot box works anymore.
As far as the rest, well, what can I tell you. You seem to have a pretty good grasp on the subject.
Welcome to Free Republic.
The 47% are too busy working and paying for the rest to go out and riot.
By the time they finish work they are too tired.
Obama is playing from a consolidated power playbook from numerous historical dictators. They know that they must keep a majority of the people, no matter how small, fed, clothed and entertained to maintain the illusion of stability. They use their powerful executive and regulatory agencies (i.e. the IRS, EPA, NSA, FBI, etc.) to quash resistance to policies passed behind closed doors. And they use a compliant and adoring media to fill the minds of the people with lies and half-truths about how great everything is in the country.
Hitler did it. Mussolini did it. Lenin did it and Stalin finished the job by turning it all into a full communist dictatorship. Obama is simply following the rulebooks used by some of the 20th century’s greatest communists and fascists. Keep the people calm and entertained, and you can accomplish whatever is necessary to effect tyranny.
Once the walls come down, and those of us who have been preaching that this imposter has no robes are fully quashed or thoroughly muted, the sheepish proles will have no will to fight due to the terror that will be inflicted upon them by the tyrannical infrastructure put in place right in front of their eyes.
Based on the conversations I’ve had with neighbors who support Obama, they don’t care. They don’t care that members of Congress exempt themselves from Obamacare, they don’t seem to care about anything constitutional.
Makes you wonder how the 1/3 who broke away from the British felt.
He needs urging? He’ll do it when it’s politically convenient.
Obama is LAW-LESS because the Republican leaders are BALL-LESS!!!
Why should he use Congress now. He has been sidestepping them for years now. Thousands of those Executive Orders and ignoring the Constitution and the Laws of the Land. He is a criminal, leading a criminal government, infected with the enemies of the Republic and murdering Islamic thugs. Yet, no problems for America. The BIG college conference championship games and the NFL and the NHL and the Soccer leagues of Socialist Europa are playing. Free phones. Free apartments. Free food. Free stuff. No matters to stupid sheep of Amerika. Let him do what he wants to do they say. We are happy while the Republic burns.
OUR ACTIVISTS URGE IMPEACHMENT AND REMOVAL FROM OFFICE.
Hmmmm.... I resemble that remark.
0' has had many remarkable men to follow footsteps of without going back too far (and going back far plenty more): O'Dinga, Zelaya (Honduras), and on and on
Obama’s finished unless someone gives him the excuse to plant a boot on our faces. He can limp along the next few years...
“Wait, wait, wait, before everybody starts clapping — that’s not how it works,” Mr. Obama said. “We got this Constitution. We got this whole thing about separation of powers and branches.”
It won’t be long now. It seems as though he is mocking the fact that those powers still keep him in check. He wants total, complete reign, and I think he will have it before his term is up. This will not end well.
What these activists forget is that for every Allende there is a Pinochet. I’ll admit to experiencing schadenfreude, although its not what the USA is supposed to be about.
Not even the left are afraid of Boehner & co. to even suggest such treasonous suggestions.
Attn House: Start cutting off his money.
And now---America is convinced their govt doesn't really love them (sob).
Mmmmmm....one can only imagine the weeping and gnashing of teeth over at the "tolerant and compassionate" DNC.
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Heck, streetwise Boobamba is the practiced community organizer/con artist who easily duped his community into thinking that food stamps, welfare and SSI was "income" that would allow them to payoff sub-prime mtges.
Then the unappreciative ne'er do wells stiffed the banks---and struggling taxpayers were blanketed w/ huge bailouts to cover for the welchers.
Golly, no wonder liberals are panicking---their entire "Govt is Good" agenda was dependent on rickety Obamacare, built on a foundation of quicksand.
I guess that "special Chicago community-stupidity vibe" doesn't travel well to Washington.
Gee, I didn't know that this Constitutional scholar knew that much about the Constitution.
So, this is the next act of the play.
What can he do, the people are clamoring for him to declare himself Caesar.
"Dammit. Obamacare flopped. Who knew that 'Chicago
community-stupidity vibe' didn't travel so well to DC?"
I’m fighting the urge to go rogue myself.